[amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?

[Sterling Coffey]

Does anyone have interest in a slack workspace or similar style of hosted
persistent chat? I know not a lot of hams have adopted the paradigm shift
in chatops. Most of my chats are shifting from IRC to Discord and Slack.
It's incredibly convenient to have an always on connection, be able to send
and receive notifications, and send images and have a searchable chat log
for almost all of time, plus all on mobile at zero cost.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Ted Krempa <k7trkradio at charter.net> wrote:

> 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!
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> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
> Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org
> > wrote:
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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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