Hamnet to meet in Cape Town

Are you part of HAMNET, the South African Radio League's disaster communication organisation, or would you like to find out more how you can use your hobby to provide an essential service to the community?

HAMNET will hold a meeting in Cape Town on Wednesday 5 December at 19:30 at the Metro Control Centre at the Tygerberg Hospital and you are invited.

Francois Botha, Hamnet National Director, will be attending the meeting and give feedback on emergency activities in other countries. Rob Byrne of JAMLINE will be the special guest, subject to any emergency issue requiring his immediate attention. JAMLINE, or Traffic Connect, is an organisation who supplies various radio stations and emergency services with up to the minute road information around South Africa.

For more information on the Cape Town Hamnet meeting contact Peter Grobler on 082-882-6626 or Dave Reece on 083 270-6843. (repeat numbers).

The next day Francois Botha will attend, by invitation, the year-end meeting of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre. Hamnet works very closely with the MRCC whose main task is to ensure the safety of life and property at sea, the prevention and combating of maritime pollution from ships and to promote the Republic's maritime interests.