[Paddlewise] Weather forecasts without VHF?

From: Richard Mitchell <mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:43:14 -0800
How have others solved the problem of obtaining long range
weather forecasting (beyond the horizon and the local barometer)
when outside the envelope of VHF broadcasts provided by the coast
guard?  SSB and HAM radios would be useful for this purpose but
what can kayakers use?  Has anyone an internet source of AM radio
stations, powers, and times that broadcast the weather in the
Caribbean?  From Havana?  Elsewhere?  

In the Sea of Cortez the cruising sailboats relay forecasts
northward each morning it used to be at 8:00 AM) from boat to
boat as far up the 800 mile waterway as the chain would reach.
Another advantage of VHF used cooperatively.  Are there other
such nets?   

RGM
-- 
Richard G. Mitchell, Jr.
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