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Web Changes
This is where we'll announce the most recent
additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first.
Urgent Announcement
Ray Gerrard, G3NOM, HS0ZDZ, 61, suffered a
severe heart attack Nov 11 while travelling from his home in Nakhon Nayok to
Bangkok with his XYL Lawan, E21UHL. Ray is now in a Bangkok hospital in a coma.
Expressions of wishes for his recovery may be sent to Lawan via the email
address: [email protected]
Ray is the international vice-president
for the IARU member society, the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST), and
the station manager for the RAST club station HS0AC and HS72B.
At the time of his illness he was busy as the working chairman of the organizing
committee for the 32nd SEANET convention to be held in Bangkok
November 19-20-21.The convention will go on as scheduled but we would like to
draw the attention of all delegates to the following important message:
If you sent registration or arrival information by email or by fax to Ray
Gerrard, or via the online registration form, after Sunday November 7, 2004,
please resend this information to [email protected] to ensure that others on the
organising committee receive this since we are unable to access Ray Gerrard's
mailbox, answering machine or fax machine. Fax messages may be sent to
+662-618-4436-6, extn 13
We will post a medical undate on Rays' condition on this web site as we receive
more news about his condition.
Please join us in praying for Ray's speedy recovery.
Transportation
26th October 2004
Dear Seanetters,
I have received several queries about methods of transport from the airport.
Please see the following information taken from the web-site
<www.seanet2004.com> . Lawan and I have obtained this information directly from
the companies at the airport. We will have a small team at the airport during
the daytime on Friday 19th November 2004 to welcome you and help you choose your
transport method etc. We may also have someone there on Thursday 18th depending
on the number of arrivals. The team will have at least one member waiting all
the time at the Official MEETING POINT at Terminal 1, ARRIVAL Hall. There is
only one official MEETING POINT at the airport, so there should be no confusion.
Bangkok Airport is a very busy airport and has three terminals. Due to changes
in arrival times, schedules, and arrival points, it is very difficult for us to
ensure meeting you at your exit gate, so the safest way is for everyone arriving
to make there way to the MEETING POINT AT TERMINAL 1 (ARRIVAL HALL).
73 Ray
HS0ZDZ
Transportation
There are several ways to travel from Bangkok's Don Muang Airport to the Arnoma
Hotel. RAST Members will be on hand at the airport Terminal 1 - meeting point on
the Friday (and possibly Thursday) to welcome guests and to give assistance to
select the most suitable method of transport. Some of the choices are:
- The Arnoma Hotel limousine service, which can be reserved through the
registration form. They charge 800 Baht Nett per way per car between 0600 and
2400 hours, and 1200 Baht between 0000 and 0600 hours.
- Thai Airways Limousine Service (24 hours) use Mercedes Benz cars and charge
1000 Baht for standard, 1500 Baht for Premium Service. Toll Fees are extra
(Approx 70 Baht). If you travel with Thai Airways it is possible these prices
are reduced or the service is offered within your package. Counters are located
in the arrival areas. Telephone +66 2973 3191 or 3199, Email <[email protected]>
- Airport Associate Co., Ltd (AAC Limousine) Offer 24 hour limousine service 650
Baht per Mercedes Benz E200 Cars. Toll Fees (approx 70 Baht) Extra. Counters
located in the arrival areas. Telephone booking +66 2 982 4900 Email <[email protected]>.
Web-site <www.aaclimousine.com>
- T Tours Service Centre - offer Volvo Cars at 650 Baht including express toll
fees, and Micro Buses at 1000 Baht (8 persons). Counters are located in the
arrival areas are open from early morning to late evening.
- Prahibab Transport Co. offer Toyota Camry Limousines at 550 Baht per car
including expressway toll fees. Their cars are parked outside the arrival
terminals and their representatives are on duty from 0600 until midnight.
- Public Meter Taxis. These are available outside each terminal. You pay the
meter fare + 50 Baht + Expressway Toll Fees. Prices should be between 250 to 350
Baht. Make sure they switch the meter on!.
- Airport Bus. These buses start at Terminal 1 and pick-up at Terminal 2 and the
Domestic Terminal. They stop at the World Trade Centre opposite the Arnoma
Hotel. From Monday to Saturday they run every 30 minutes between 0530 am to 0100
am. They travel on the expressway and charge 100 Baht per person.
- For backpackers and the really, really thrifty people, you can try to pick up
a meter taxi on the main road outside the airport, thus avoiding the 50 Baht
surchage. Travel to Mo Chit - Sky Train Terminal, and take the train to Chidlom
Station (40 Baht) just round the corner from the Arnoma Hotel.
- For the even more thrifty people, you could walk the 35 km to the hotel?
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{SEANET Convention 2004 19-21st November 2004 - Bangkok, Thailand}
**** RAST thanks Thai Airways International for its support as the SEANET 2004
Official Airline and for being a Platinum sponsor of the convention, Beer Chang
for its generous support as a Gold SEANET 2004 sponsor, and True Corporation for
its support as a Silver sponsor of SEANET 2004 ****
WELCOME
21st October 2004
INTRODUCTION
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I have compiled this
mailing list mainly from incoming registrations but a few others are included
in case they are interested. Please let me know if you wish to be removed from
this distribution list.
For those who have not
already registered for SEANET Convention 2004 or don't know about it, please
ask me about it, or look carefully at the WEB-SITE
www.seanet2004.com . The
SEANET Convention 2004 takes place at the Arnoma Hotel, Bangkok from 19th to
21st November 2004.
COMMUNICATIONS
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Please use this Email
address: <[email protected]>
for enquiries from now on. The RAST server has become unreliable in recent
times, but I am still setup to receive messages that way. Please refer all
your inquiries to me, including inquiries about hotel bookings. At first we
suggested that the hotel could be contacted directly but it has caused much
confusion, and it is easier to control if all queries come through one point.
Thanks.
HOTEL ROOMS
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We have reached the
stage where we have approximately 60 rooms booked out of our 70 room
allocation. Therefore when the remaining 10 rooms are booked, or after 30th
October 2004, whichever comes soonest, the hotel will not be able to
guarantee any further rooms. This is high season in the centre of a very
popular city destination, and I urge you to book quickly if you're thinking
of coming. We will of course help you to find other accommodation but the
facilities of the Arnoma Hotel are excellent for our special discount price of
2400 Baht per room per night including buffet breakfast for two persons.
Some of you have asked
about early check-ins (say 0100 and 0400 in the night). Normally hotels don't
give access to rooms until around noon on the day of your arrival because they
have to clean and service the rooms after the previous guests have left. In a
busy hotel like this, they will be heavily booked at this time, and they will
want to charge you for an extra night. I have asked the hotel if they will
give a reduction for an early or late check in, and I'll let you know the
result.
HOTEL LIMOUSINES.
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The hotel limousine
service is expensive, and rather inflexible. E.g. they suggest two limousines
are needed for 4 persons plus luggage, and they will not wait if your flight
is delayed. Many of you have checked the box for Hotel Limousine, but
possibly may think it is a free service. I would strongly recommend that you
chose one of the options on the web-site. There are many other much cheaper
services which operate from the airport on a one way basis. I have listed the
details on the web-site but please let me know if you would like me to mail or
attach the information for you. We have talked with the companies who operate
limousines at the airport, and they are well established concerns. Please let
me know also if you wish to cancel the Hotel Limousine service.
ROOM GUARANTEE
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If you have paid your
registration fee to RAST we will guarantee your hotel room reservation without
the necessity of giving your Credit Card details to the hotel, or paying a
deposit. Those of you who have not yet paid your registration fee, nor paid a
deposit to the hotel, run the risk of a cancellation charge if you cancel at
the last minute.
REGISTRATION FEE PAYMENT
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We now have the on-line
Credit Card payment facility working and thank all those who have paid by this
method. It has the advantage that you don't pay any bank transfer fees, and in
some case very good currency exchange rates. RAST bears the 2% credit card fee
charged by the bank. You may have noticed that we changed the Bank Account for
transferring money. At first it was the Siam City Bank, and now the Krung Thai
Bank. Don't worry if you've transferred money to the Siam City Bank, we still
operate this account, but we have set up a new separate bank account for
SEANET.
The organising committee
is looking forward to meeting you all soon in Bangkok.
Sawadee Khrap!.
73 Ray
HS0ZDZ
SEANET Registrar
24th September 2004
Please note the new receiving Bank information below for remitting payment
for SEANET registration.
Bank name: Krung Thai Bank Plc.
Branch name :Pradipat Branch
Account Type: Saving
Account Number: 034-1-86101-4
Account Name: Radio Amateur Society of Thailand
10th September 2004
To pay for your SEANET Registration fee by Credit Card please supply the
following information securely:
Your Name:
If Possible your SEANET Booking Reference Number:
The amount in Thai Baht:
Card Type:
Card Number:
Card Name:
Valid until: Month/Year
Visa and Mastercard credit cards are acceptable:
Please take care with your card information and send by the following means:
1. By fax to Mr Ray Gerrard, SEANET Organiser, +66 (0)37 328 042. This is a
secure fax in a private room in a private house, with no public access. Please
bear in mind the fax machine may have to be taken off-line during thunderstorms.
2. By Email to raynom(at)loxinfo.co.th, but do not include all the information
in one message. Spread the details over two or three messages, or send one part
by Email and the other by fax.
3. Send by mail (preferably registered) to Ray Gerrard, PO Box 69, Bangkok
Airport PO. Bangkok, 10212, Thailand.
4. Telephone your information to Ray Gerrard HS0ZDZ between 0100 to 1400 GMT
(daytime in Thailand) + 66 37 328 041
8th June 2004
Added 2 new pages; Programme and
Contest. Click on it to go there.
27th May 2004
Registration Form page is now available.
Click here to go there to submit your
registration. There is also a downloadable & printable form should you decide to
submit by mail or fax.
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