[amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?

[Ted Krempa]

Hi Patrick, pls consider moving the D* net to a weekday, especially with
summer coming up. Sundays usually involve a lot of family stuff or maybe
traveling home from a weekend trip.

Thank you, Ted
K7TRK

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:26 PM
To: Mr B r a d; AMSAT
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?

Hi, Brad!

As I mentioned last night, I did not come up with the idea of a
D-Star get-together focused on satellite stuff. Others have
talked about creating - or relaunching - a talkgroup for this
sort of discussion in the DMR realm. AMSAT operates an EchoLink
conference server, which has been used for similar nets in the
past. There's the HF net, if it is still operating (no HF at
home presently, so I can't speak to that). Lots of options to
do something online.

What I seem to be hearing has a common theme... "AMSAT should
do (some sort of chat, get-together, or net) on (radio, EchoLink,
or something online)". If someone is interested in doing this
on EchoLink, DMR, or some other mechanism - great! Do it!
Announce it here, on Twitter, Facebook, spread the word. It
doesn't have to be "official", but usually requires someone
to be the cat-herder-in-chief or ringleader for whatever is
proposed. The D-Star roundtable I mentioned has not had dozens
of check-ins on any given Sunday evening, but has had good
discussions and question-and-answer sessions. If something is
done on DMR, I don't have DMR capabilities - but it doesn't
hurt if we have these sorts of roundtables or chats in different
places. The D-Star roundtable has drawn in some local Arizona
interest, given that the reflector we have been using is
normally tied into several D-Star repeaters around the
Phoenix and Tucson areas, along with other repeaters that
may be connected to the reflector just for the roundtables.

73!






Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK







On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org
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> """ Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK"  .....from the last dispatch of messages
> ....Re:  trying to get back to the Sunday evening AMSAT roundtable """"
> I Guess that is on d-star ?? this would be great to listen in on from a
> new Op perspective .....
> I have been looking for a Sat IRC or Sat-Op chat room or something like
> "ping jockey" toget get some quick answers to operating questions and line
> up some QSO's and have not found anything for this. even a HF or echo-link
> net could be helpful.this could also solve the ' no one else was on the
> bird' problem.
> sticking my neck out here , but I could host it on my valleymedia.org
> domain withone of the free chat room scripts if nothing more official or
> better is out here or offered?
> one link on the 'easy sats' / work-sats page would fuel the live sat-chat
> room very nicely
>
> new guy Ko6kLBrad
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