[Coco] Amateur radio CoCo net

[Aaron Wolfe]

There are several SDRs you can listen to online:  http://www.websdr.org/
They are very interesting, but probably wouldn't help with our net.
We currently run the net on Echolink which is an internet mechanism.
RF repeaters can be joined to an Echolink conference, but so far this
hasn't happened in our net.  Most RF repeaters are VHF or UHF and so
cover only a local area (50-100 miles or so) anyway, so unless an SDR
happened to be nearby a repeater that happened to be joined to us, you
would not find us.


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Just thinking out loud, but would this project:
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/impressive_software_radio_lets_you.
> html
>
> Let me (or all of us w/o radios) to listen in?  Does anyone have the savvy
> to see if this would actually work?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 1:32 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: [Coco] Amateur radio CoCo net
>
> Tomorrow evening at 9:30PM EST we will have a net on echolink node 522348.
> I'll have the node online 30 minutes prior if you need to test your
> connection.
>
> Last week the group decided we should try to open the net to all interested
> CoCo nuts using some conferencing mechanism that is not limited to licensed
> radio amateurs.  If anyone has suggestions or comments on a method that
> would work well, please let me know.
>
> What I've found so far is that every VoIP platform seems to have a gotcha.
> The best seems to be Skype.  There are Skype clients for all major
> platforms, although it is limited to 25 users in a conference.
> That may not be an issue for us.  I think the largest ham net had only
> 8 participants.
>
> Another option is Mumble.. http://mumble.sourceforge.net/    This is
> open source, has clients for Win/Mac/Linux and has no limits on
> participants.  However, the installation and setup is not as simple as
> Skype.  I'd like to make it as easy as possible for any interested people to
> join.
>
> Beyond the program used, there is the question of format.  Right now we do
> an informal sort of round table, with one person responsible for directing
> things when needed.  Since all participants are ham radio operators with
> experience in how these things work, and there just aren't that many of us
> in the conference, it flows pretty smoothly.
> I wonder if we had more people (and people who are not practiced in how to
> maintain order in a potentially chaotic situation) if we should try to
> organize things a bit differently.  We could do short
> presentation(s) with Q&A, or simply a more directed conference with someone
> controlling the flow.  I think some of the conferencing programs let
> participants "raise their hand" via some indicator.
>
> The target date for a first "open" net is November 2nd.
>
> -Aaron
>
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