You can't effectively network from afar. Get in a car and drive north. You need to be the guy who's around when the senior pilot moves on and everybody moves up a rung.
The CP has probably already turfed your resume and/or email s/he got last week.
Times were probably harder 16 years ago, but with the same background and hours as you I drove north and visited company with 210s just as a guy had failed a line check...