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The South East
Asia Amateur Radio Network (SEANET) was established in 1964 on 20m (14.320 MHz
plus or minus QRM). The objective of this Net is to promote international
understanding and fellowship among hams and to relay emergency, medical, urgent
or priority traffic. This on-the-air meeting which has taken place without fail
daily at 1200 UTC has strengthened unity and co-operation among Hams around the
world, especially those within the region. The net also provides Hams a facility
for testing their equipment and propagation conditions on the 20m band. The first convention or eyeball QSO of SEAnet took place on the island of Penang, Malaysia, in December 1971 when about 30 amateurs met. Present at that historic meeting were the first Net Controller Paddy Gunasekera 4S7PB of Sri Lanka and stalwarts ‘Big John’ van Leader 9M2IR, 9V1OQ, HS1AIR, Ebbey Lucas 9V1QG of Singapore arid Eshee Razak 9M2FK of Malaysia.
SEANET has no permanent Secretariat as such the devoted net controllers work out a schedule among themselves to run the net. It is through the net controllers that the net has been useful in many such as passing the DX news. Dx-peditions, handling emergency and medical traffic amid assigning frequencies for stations wishing to work each other, although SEANET is not a DX net. Members of this 38 years old network can take credit or many actual life saving communications activities, such as, answering distress calls from yachts and handling traffic for medical emergencies and special medicines. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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