Herb The Weatherman VE3LML

Tonight I was watching ABC news and seen a clip on Herb the weatherman. as I look closely I see the Heil Headset and they mention this is his hobby. He uses his HF rig to give out weather to ships abroad in the Seas of the World. He predicts the weather of the ocean and gives ships routes. He is perhaps by note of some experts the one person to count on to get the best predictions. So I would like to say thank you Herb for your time. To see the clip click below.thank you I used realplayerOne to view it. download it at real.com.

Sean-K8KHZ


Herb's News Clip

 

Very interesting article and audio/vidio clip.  I couldn't catch the call he used but it isn't amateur and 12.359 Mhz. isn't a ham frequency. Wonder if he is a ham?  Sounds like he would be a good one.

 

Yes, Herb the Weatherman is a ham - VE3LML. Look up his call here and there's a link to his webpage. That will answer many questions about his HF operations on maritime frequencies.

73,

Chris

 

12.359 is Maritime Mobile. Herb can be found at

http://hometown.aol.com/hehilgen/myhomepage/vacation.html

73

 

Sean,

What a wonderful world of ham radio. I too know Herb and have used his help in the past at sea.

Yes, Heil microphone is the Golden voice supporter of choice for most of us.

thanks 73,

N9AS 260

 

As a sailor and a very new Ham (3Weeks), I know of Herb by reputation, His service is known throughout the offshore sailing world as second to none.Any knowledgable sailor going offshore to Bermuda, or Carribean will no doubt make use of this valuable service. I hope to make a crossing from Eastern Canada to Bermuda in 2 years time, and hope that Herb is still on the air when I go.
Kent
ve9kar

 

Our local weatherman on CCN TV Channel 6 in TT was/is a ham.  His name is Eric Mackie and his callsign is 9Z4CP.  He's basically an amateur meteorologist who has been around the marine (boater) community for a long while.  He gives weather reports on the Antilles (Caribbean) Emergency and Weather Net on 3.815 MHz at 10:30 and 22:30UTC every day.  Alot of people like the way he does the weather on TV... I think he's pretty good, and most of the TT public agrees with me.

Among other things, Eric has helped Captain David Clark with his marine and radio stuff when he was in Trinidad, and also aided in the rescue of the ham who was attacked by pirates awhile back.

By the way, I mean real pirates, not radio pirates, as the ham who was attacked was also a boater.