Is there like a chat room where OSCAR or any Sat for that matter hang out in?
Howdy,
There also is the 1990's era Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It is mostly text based ascii characters without a lot of pictures. You need an IRC client to access this network, but it is free and open to the public. Chatzilla is an IRC plug-in for Firefox. mIRC is one of the stand alone IRC chat clients. Afficionados of IRC could point us to several other chat clients.
There is a mostly idle, but still available AMSAT chat on the servers named radiochat.org: You'll need to tell your IRC client: /server irc.radiochat.org /join #amsat
The Houston AMSAT net on Tuesday evenings is pretty much the sole remaining user on this AMSAT IRC chat. It is one of their ways of getting remote checkins to the net if you are out of range of the Houston repeater but have internet access.
When the flocks of cubesats get launched the university teams and amateur satellite operators congregate on the #cubesat chat channel:
/server irc.freenode.org /join #cubesat
If Internet Relay Chat is new for you just google and find a few dozen pages of how to do IRC. I'm not sure if a phone app exists for IRC; I think when IRC was invented touch tone phones were new ;-) ... but it still works!
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org AMSAT VP User Services