[amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?

Wed Mar 21 05:43:37 UTC 2018

+1 on the discord suggestion, there's a young hams group with 200 members
using discord and it's worked really well for us. The best part about it is
the mobile apps work really well, as opposed to IRC, which lacks good
mobile support.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 11:11 PM Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org> wrote:

> If we are going to have a hangout on one of the modern comm sites, might
> as well go for Discord -- it has all the Slack features plus is easier to
> hook into with scripts and programs and bots, AND offers the option of
> voice chat as well as an alternative to help folks connect/troubleshoot.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Brad Brooks
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:56 PM
> To: Sterling Coffey <kawfey at gmail.com>; amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?
>
> 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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