Vale - 'Met Area VII' voice silenced

8:03 AM Mon 28 Feb 2011 GMT

'Alistair Campbell' .

There is nothing more precious and confidence-building when the weather is foul and the wind screaming than the sound of a familiar calm voice on the HF radio doing a 'sched'. So when one of those voices goes silent we feel we have lost a real friend. Alistair Campbell, one of South Africa's greatest radio amateurs, has gone 'silent key'. His coverage was vast, crossing most of two oceans in the southern hemisphere, the Atlantic and the Indian, and many a cruising sailor remembers his forecasts and scheds with gratitude. The South African Maritime Mobile ...

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by Nancy Knudsen