Corinne, Herb's signals have been exclusively shortwave. Earlier in the summer he was off for a short period and we have not tried to monitor him since arrival in England at the end of July.
I know of no way to get any of the transmissions except via shortwave radio... The Frequency has been 12,359, with check-ins by boats at 3:30 Eastern, briefly giving your boat name (and during first call in roughly where you are and where headed...see below) Then Herb calls back around 4 pm... Earlier in the summer when we came across Herb was then making an additional delayed call to boats with poor propagation at 6pm Eastern as well... Herb's Website text: Fixed HF Marine Land Station VAX498 http://www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm Herb provides a daily ship-routing/weather forecasting service as a hobby, on marine HF/SSB frequency12359.0. Alternate frequencies may be announced from time to time during the "NET" depending on and subject to propagation. Vessels are welcome to check in between 1930 and 2000 UTC and should then stand by until contacted once their area gets covered. New check-ins should provide a short description of their location on checking in for the first time. Herb will acknowledge all readable check-ins. Once on the South Bound II log stations are encouraged to check in and stay in contact daily until completion of passage. As part of the service each vessel should provide current latitude and longitude to the nearest minute when called back; also provide true wind speed and wind direction and other pertinent data such as changing barometric pressure, rough sea state and squalls. Each vessel will receive daily an extended four to five day route forecast including way points, as necessary, to assist in avoiding potentially unfavorable conditions. Ed on ANGEL LOUISE, Now lying London On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Corinne Sutter-Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > can anyone help me figure out how to listen to Herb online???? all links I > found are out of date. my portable sw radio has crappy antenna. my son is > currently bringing a boat back from Azores to New England (via Bermuda). he > checks in w/Herb daily but I cannot raise it on radio. He is currently in > Flores waiting for wx (Phillipe) to settle. any advise welcome. > > Corinne, currently landlocked in western NYS. > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > -- Ed Kelly sailing vessel ANGEL LOUISE - Catalac 12m US Skype phone #: 202-657-6357 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
