[amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?

[Brad Brooks]

I vote Slack. Count me in. 73 Brad WF7T

On Mar 20, 2018, 7:58 PM -0500, Sterling Coffey <kawfey at gmail.com>, wrote:
> 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!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > > """ 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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