Chat Room

[SCPD]

I think it would be a good idea to implement a live chat room to talk about breaking news and information going on in the bands. When i log a number station in the shortwave bands and post it most of the time its over and done with and others cant catch it in time, What do you guys think of the idea?

Mike

 

[gewecke]

I think it would be a good idea to implement a live chat room to talk about breaking news and information going on in the bands. When i log a number station in the shortwave bands and post it most of the time its over and done with and others cant catch it in time, What do you guys think of the idea?

Mike

Radio ref. already has one. We call it the tavern!
n9zas

 

[SCPD]

How do i get to it. I searched up and down and cant find it.

 

[E-Man]

At one time there was a RR Chat Room, unfortunately it was not utilized and was removed. If memory serves, in former discussions, cost was mentioned as a factor, but I think it has moved to dead horse status.

 

[Saint]

Tavern

How do i get to it. I searched up and down and cant find it.

Click on the Forums link and go to the bottom of the page and you will see the Tavern Forum
Steve

 

[WouffHong]

Old Chat Room..

At one time there was a RR Chat Room, unfortunately it was not utilized and was removed. If memory serves, in former discussions, cost was mentioned as a factor, but I think it has moved to dead horse status.

Yup - I created a Bravenet free one, but never seemed to grow - still languishing at:

RRCHAT.NET

DA Wouff

 

[loumaag]

There was one (that I think electricman was referring to) here on the site. And it was removed for non-use and wasting resources.

 

[mciupa]

I think it would be a good idea to implement a live chat room to talk about breaking news and information going on in the bands. When i log a number station in the shortwave bands and post it most of the time its over and done with and others cant catch it in time, What do you guys think of the idea?

Mike

The problem is having the interested parties on-line,precisely at the time you are ready to chat.



As a consolation, I suppose you could employ the Private Message system and send your message to dedicated HF members you know would appreciate your info.

 

[mciupa]

Also, I've noticed the AIM,MSN, Yahoo instant messaging icons under members post counts.

So, that would be another method of getting the word out.

 

[SCPD]

Thats a really good idea to use the aim and yahoo chat.

 

[ridgescan]

zeno-you just keep your cool contributions coming in our HF forum from your east coast perspective we will still be able to do the hookup on catches for the most part IMO. Even if we cannot, we still can compare experiences which is always good.

 

[SCPD]

I just think there is a better was to get the info out live. Maybe a scrolling banner we can change or something. I find a pirate station and log it. By the time you get it its most likely gone and you will never hear it. Im going to think of something. Even if i have to setup my own home server for us HF people.

 

[loumaag]

I just think there is a better was to get the info out live. ...

Here's a thought, prefaced by the comment that I am in no way an expert on this sort of thing. Back in the day when I was "chasing paper" as a Ham, I used to make use of what is known as DX Cluster. In those days we were using actual RF connected nodes but a quick look just now show that this is still being used although a lot of it is on the Internet now via telenet. I did look a little for SWL using such a telenet connected cluster, but did not immediately find anything. If you wanted to start something like that I am sure it would attract some attention.

Just as an overview of how this works (at least as regards DX spotting), several individual spotters around the world would type in reports of hearing a DX station, the report is then distributed via the Internet to all nodes monitoring the cluster. For examples see:
VE7CC DX Cluster

 

[kd8ati]

Re:

A lot of good ideas but I don't think any of them would work in a manner which the thread originator had in mind, which is the live dissemination of noteworthy news. The AIM / Yahoo instant messenger is fine, except you can only contact one person at a time unless you create a group that everyone you try and get to join actually joins. Not the best. The Tavern is good, but only for those who happen to be clicking refresh when something happens.

It would not be very hard to create an irc chat network. Using Unreal IRC chat software which is free, on a remote linux based provider, they could have a live chat system up and running in no time. All they would need to do is add a java applet to their home page pointing it to the IRC chat server and everyone here could connect. Anyone who is interested could easily connect to it just by simply using the java applet. The cost to radioreference would be to have someone host the chat server. Maybe they can do it themselfs? If it is a cost they could limit it to premium subscribers, to help offset the costs.

I have offered to Lindsay to help volunteer to setup / oversee such a project, as I have run my own IRC network in the past, and he was not interested at the time for the reasons stated here. It seems they use to have one that was not used, so he did not seem interested in starting another one. Maybe if enough people show an interest, they will bring it back?

 

[loumaag]

...I have offered to Lindsay to help volunteer to setup / oversee such a project, as I have run my own IRC network in the past, and he was not interested at the time for the reasons stated here. It seems they use to have one that was not used, so he did not seem interested in starting another one. Maybe if enough people show an interest, they will bring it back?

I refer you to Post #6 of this thread where an existing (and generally unused) one is linked.

 

[kd8ati]

I refer you to Post #6 of this thread where an existing (and generally unused) one is linked.

True, however I like to think that its not really used because not many people know about it. I bet if there was a link to it from the RR home page it would be more widely used. But then again I might be wrong.

An admin could always start a poll here on the forums and see if people would use a chat function?

 

[SCPD]

I really want to thank everyone who chimed in on the post. Lots of good ideas here. Still thinking of a low cost way to send out an alert to breaking news/Info/Utils on HF

 

[brandon]

I think IRC is the way to go. Perhaps #RadioReference can be setup on one of the existing IRC servers. It's been years since I have used IRC chat but I remember large servers such as DALNet, Undernet, EFnet, etc. Ahh... bringing back memories already!

 

[kd8ati]

I think IRC is the way to go. Perhaps #RadioReference can be setup on one of the existing IRC servers. It's been years since I have used IRC chat but I remember large servers such as DALNet, Undernet, EFnet, etc. Ahh... bringing back memories already!

Yeah those are all the big IRC servers out there. But I do not think that is what RR would want. Although they would control the room, they would have no control over the network. I would imagine RR would want their own network so they could create their own rooms, have control over their own services, and so on, without having to rely on someone else.

 

[pfish]

At one time we had a group that would idle in #radioreference on efnet...but everyone moved on.

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