[amsat-bb] Talking about satellites and AMSAT online, but not email

[Ciemon Dunville]

I gather that the link I sent didn't work, but this one does:
https://discord.gg/AevuYSR

Lots of people have been dropping in so there would seem to be some
interest.

Regards,
Ciemon
G0TRT

On Fri, May 22, 2020, 18:16 Ciemon Dunville <ciemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've come back to the hobby and AMSAT after a many years away, and it's
> great to see that the passion, interest and fun is still there. Back in
> 2000 when I turned the station off, email was about the only way to
> communicate outside of a local club, so I'm surprised that email still
> seems to be about all there is.
>
> For someone not in a club, or not wanting to be part of a club, and
> without any known fellow satellite focused operators nearby it can be a
> challenge at times to find answers when Google can't help and a simple
> question to a person would probably be quite quick.
>
> I've searched back through the archive here to look for real time chat
> tools such as IRC, Slack and Discord but these don't appear to have caught
> on, but in the spirit of trying to fill a potential gap I've fired up a
> Discord server at
> https://discord.com/channels/711956593117233254/711956593117233256 Whilst
> this does have a voice capability it's mainly text chat, but can have
> separate channels for different topics such as antennas, tracking etc and
> can have channels for countries to focus on too.
>
> New users will need to create an account which is normal for all Discord
> users, and I hope that this server might be of some use to the global AMSAT
> community.
>
> Regards,
> Ciemon
> G0TRT
>