-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- """ 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
There is a weekly AMSAT net on 14.282 MHz Sundays at 1900 UTC. Most AMSAT chat seems to take place on this mailing list, with Facebook and Twitter getting a lot of the time-sensitive comms.
Dave, W8AAS
On Mar 19, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB [email protected] 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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On 03/19/18 13:37, Dave Taylor wrote:
There is a weekly AMSAT net on 14.282 MHz Sundays at 1900 UTC.
I confess that I haven't actively listened for it in weeks, but is this HF net still active?
--- Zach N0ZGO
Something like Ping Jockey but for the satellites is an excellent idea; I would use it and would likely be more active because of it.
cheers, Graham ve3gtc FN25ig
On 2018-03-19 16:57, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB 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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You can always meet with satellite ops here: http://n8fq.org/sked/index.php?board=sat
-----Original Message----- From: Graham [email protected] To: amsat-bb [email protected] Sent: Mon, Mar 19, 2018 3:56 pm Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?
Something like Ping Jockey but for the satellites is an excellent idea; I would use it and would likely be more active because of it.cheers, Graham ve3gtc FN25igOn 2018-03-19 16:57, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB 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> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=->>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________> Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available> to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed> are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!> Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb______________________________... via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum availableto all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressedare solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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 <[email protected]
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
There is the n8fq sked page. I use the lotw page but i check the sat page too. Its like ping jockey.http://n8fq.org/sked/ -------- Original message --------From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" [email protected] Date: 3/19/18 5:26 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Mr B r a d [email protected], AMSAT [email protected] 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 <[email protected]
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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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:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]
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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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 [email protected] 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:[email protected]] 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 < [email protected]
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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I vote Slack. Count me in. 73 Brad WF7T
On Mar 20, 2018, 7:58 PM -0500, Sterling Coffey [email protected], 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 [email protected] 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:[email protected]] 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 < [email protected]
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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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.
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected] web: Devin on Earth cell: +1 425.239.2575
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Brad Brooks Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:56 PM To: Sterling Coffey [email protected]; [email protected] 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected] 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:[email protected]] 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 < [email protected]
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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+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 [email protected] 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.
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected] web: Devin on Earth cell: +1 425.239.2575
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Brad Brooks Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:56 PM To: Sterling Coffey [email protected]; [email protected] 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected]
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:[email protected]] 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 < [email protected]
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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I'd second Discord for two main reasons. 1) all of the below. 2) Slack has a 'buffer limit' of 10,000 messages server-wide unless you pay them an exorbitant amount of money every month (circa $10 per user every month or something). I tried applying for a not-for-profit upgrade for one of the organisations that insisted on using Slack that I'm part of, and they basically said "unless you're a registered charity, no chance".
As an aside though, Discord too has its flaws - anyone with the url can join and there's no way of monitoring who is joining without having a bot that actively welcomes every user by name, which gets quite spammy. The "secure" channels on a Discord server are not secure either - people with a third party client can dump all the contents of every "secure" channel without even having to try too hard. However, it's a perfectly respectable platform if you feel the need for multiple channels.
If you only care about a single "channel" or stream of chatter, go for Telegram - cross platform including most desktop OSs, web client for those who don't want to install a native client, and 'just works'. Joining either by link or invitation from an existing member, and shows when someone joins. Persistent history, as with Discord.
This debate could get heavy, but work out what you'd want (single stream of chat, multiple channels etc etc) and then work out what the best platform is for the specific job you want to do.
73, and a firm left handshake, John (XLX)
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Devin L. Ganger Sent: 21 March 2018 04:36 To: Brad Brooks [email protected]; Sterling Coffey [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?
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.
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected] web: Devin on Earth cell: +1 425.239.2575
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Brad Brooks Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:56 PM To: Sterling Coffey [email protected]; [email protected] 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected]
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:[email protected]] 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 < [email protected]
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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There is the n8fq sked page. I use the lotw page but i check the sat page too. Its like ping jockey.http://n8fq.org/sked/ Why reinvent the wheel? -------- Original message --------From: John [email protected] Date: 3/21/18 5:18 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "'Devin L. Ganger'" [email protected], 'Brad Brooks' [email protected], 'Sterling Coffey' [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ? I'd second Discord for two main reasons. 1) all of the below. 2) Slack has a 'buffer limit' of 10,000 messages server-wide unless you pay them an exorbitant amount of money every month (circa $10 per user every month or something). I tried applying for a not-for-profit upgrade for one of the organisations that insisted on using Slack that I'm part of, and they basically said "unless you're a registered charity, no chance".
As an aside though, Discord too has its flaws - anyone with the url can join and there's no way of monitoring who is joining without having a bot that actively welcomes every user by name, which gets quite spammy. The "secure" channels on a Discord server are not secure either - people with a third party client can dump all the contents of every "secure" channel without even having to try too hard. However, it's a perfectly respectable platform if you feel the need for multiple channels.
If you only care about a single "channel" or stream of chatter, go for Telegram - cross platform including most desktop OSs, web client for those who don't want to install a native client, and 'just works'. Joining either by link or invitation from an existing member, and shows when someone joins. Persistent history, as with Discord.
This debate could get heavy, but work out what you'd want (single stream of chat, multiple channels etc etc) and then work out what the best platform is for the specific job you want to do.
73, and a firm left handshake, John (XLX)
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Devin L. Ganger Sent: 21 March 2018 04:36 To: Brad Brooks [email protected]; Sterling Coffey [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] weekly nets / live chat ?
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.
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected] web: Devin on Earth cell: +1 425.239.2575
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] On Behalf Of Brad Brooks Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:56 PM To: Sterling Coffey [email protected]; [email protected] 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected]
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:[email protected]] 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 < [email protected]
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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Brad Brooks -
Caleb Smith -
Dave Taylor -
davekn4ok＠aol.com -
Devin L. Ganger -
Graham -
Joe N3XLS -
John -
Mr B r a d -
Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) -
Sterling Coffey -
Ted Krempa -
Zach Metzinger