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V8V2222 - Remote communications:
HF/SSB Radio Services
for
Recreational Small-Craft
Brunei
Bay Radio provides Limited Coast
Station services via HF/SSB radio for recreational sail and
power vessels in SE Asia, the North West Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
The service area extends in a roughly
3000nm
radius from Brunei
Bay Radio's base, located at approximately 5 degrees North, and
115 degrees East.
This region includes the main west to east
circumnavigation routes, from the Solomon Islands in the east, across
the top of Australia, through Asia, to the
Arabian Sea in the west. And from northern Japan, to the east coast of
South Africa.
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Early morning in the
South China Sea.
Using Brunei Bay Radio's
e-mail or voice services, it's possible to order spare parts, update family,
notify position, receive weather charts, weather forecasts, MSI
warnings and organise crew changes.
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Brunei
Bay Radio's
services
for Small-Craft are available to members. Members may be
individual vessel owners, or recreational boating clubs, or
recreational tour operators (eg: dive boats, sports fishing boats, charter
yachts).
Increasing
interest in marine recreation throughout SE Asia includes many pristine
but isolated dive sites, sports fishing destinations, islands and yacht
cruising areas.
Brunei Bay Radio's HF/SSB
services are designed to assist individual boat owners, clubs and
activity based tour operators to safely enjoy these areas.
Brunei
Bay Radio operates
the regional gateway of the not-for-profit
SailMail
Association, a world-wide network of HF/SSB radio e-mail
transfer stations. This is a low cost e-mail service for recreational
small-craft. An annual SailMail Association
membership fee is the only cost; there are no connection or data
transfer charges.
Brunei
Bay Radio also
provides HF/SSB radio voice services. These include free-to-air daily
broadcasts of SE Asian marine weather, and Maritime Safety Information (MSI)
warnings. Members have additional services, including message transfer and position
reporting.
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Fishing and Motor Cruising
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Brunei Bay Radio also provides
special communication schedules and yacht position logging for passage
races in the region. These can be automated using e-mail and YOTREPS,
or manual, via a voice operator.
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Passage races occur regularly around the
South China Sea. And from
Darwin through the Indonesian Archipelago, to Singapore, Langkawi
and Phuket.
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Our HF/SSB e-mail service makes ordering parts, arranging crew, booking
flights, and contacting family easy and reliable during races,
delivery trips, or cruising. Data transmission will normally get through
when voice communication is difficult.
For charter yachts, live aboard
dive boats or fishing safaris, our economical HF/SSB services
simplify re-supply orders and booking confirmations. Visitor safety in
remote areas is substantially enhanced.
For membership information contact us
using the details below.
Note:
Small-Craft are defined as
vessels under 300 tonnes. Such vessels are not required (under
International Maritime Regulations) to carry expensive GMDSS satellite (INMARSAT)
equipment to receive weather and MSI information. Nor are they required
to fit special GMDSS (DSC) equipped HF/SSB radios for regular or
emergency communications.
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Call-sign:
V8V2222 SelCall ID: 2222
For inquiries click here to email Brunei Bay Radio
Brunei Bay Radio
PO Box 2234
Bandar Seri Begawan BS8674
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
Phn: 673 2 262676 Fax: 673 2 262675
Unit 105, 1st Floor, PGGMB Building
Jalan Sungai Kianggeh
Bandar Seri Begawan BS8111
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
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