[SCCC] SCCC Chat

[Bill Shell - N6WS]

Steve,

The details of how to get on DXChat and some of the features we use were 
forwarded in an email directly to you.  I didn't post it here on the 
SCCC reflector, because it has a .pdf attachment.  If anyone else want 
the information you can ask directly to me or on the SCCC reflector, and 
I will forward it directly to you by email.

73, Bill
N6WS

On 2/23/2023 8:40 AM, Steve Harrison wrote:
>
> 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
>
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73, Bill
N6WS