[SCCC] SCCC Chat

[Steve Harrison]

On 2/23/2023 7:16 AM, Bill Shell - N6WS wrote:
>
> On DXChat we announce DX, and during pileups, we call out QSX info in 
> real-time.  There are channels for:
>
> DXChat (where the DX announcements happen)
Bill, how does DXChat differ from the cluster, other than the audience 
is smaller, and you can do:
>
> General Chats (for general discussions)
>
> TechSupport (for helping others setting up their equipment or solving 
> problems)

What I was hoping to find was the same personal chat facility we used to 
have back in the days of packet spotting. I don't know about the 
spotting nets on the West Coast; but the ones in the W3LPL clusters 
(which covered the whole eastern seaboard into the midwest, right about 
where both the FRC and MRCC territories started) also allowed one to 
pick out just one person to chat with, and you'd stay locked to that 
person until you chose someone else or closed the QSO. I used to "talk" 
to a couple of buddies all night long while we watched tropo propagation 
on the V/UHF bands: me in Mashachewzits, he in western VA. I could click 
on another call and talk the same way with another buddy over east on 
Cape Cod. We shared propagation info that way without bothering others 
who were also monitoring the clusters.  I'm using VE7CC for spotting and 
see that it also has tabs for WWV as well as "Mail" (whatever that may 
be) but neither seems to be functional in my copy.

10m isn't very good today but at least both C5C and ZD7MG/P were coming 
through. No Euros, though.

I need to fix my ALS-800 so I have some powah on 160 again... The HV has 
dropped to just over half but the step-start relay does seem to be 
working. I don't have any of my HV metering accessories here yet so 
haven't tried troubleshooting. This rebuilt SB230 I'm using now does a 
fine job but only on 80 - 10, and I would have had to completely rebuild 
the bandswitch and add padding caps to add 160. Maybe I'll do that to my 
second one... or one of my HA14s...??

Obligatory contest-content... Onna these days, I'll try getting into 
that new-fangled Ritty-style contesting... apparently, my TS890 has a 
built-in modem that can do both decoding as well as encoding?? Need to 
read up on that someday...

TNX,

Steve, K0XP