[HCARC] IRC Chat

[Harvey N. Vordenbaum]

I guess the Reflector here is the closest thing we have to Chat.
Topics do come up from time to time that raise a lot of activity.
K5hv


-----Original Message-----
From: hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of John Luttrell
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 1:29 PM
To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCARC] IRC Chat

Hello everyone,

Since I do not yet have my Ticket and also since I just like to explore
options and tinker, I wanted to know if there was a kerrhams IRC channel?

IRC for those of you whom do not know is "Internet Relay Chat" in it's
simplest form can be used for text chatting or correspondence and allows
multiple people to be in a "channel" so to speak to chat or leave running,
on your computer connected to of course, the internet.

It can run on any OS and even without a window manager, I.E. what you see in
Windows, vs. a command line interface you can have using Linux. So it uses
hardly any resources or bandwidth and is quite easy to even operate on an
old pc 386 system running a base Linux install (or windows 3.1 if you still
have a copy! hehe).

I felt this would open up communications within the club and also allow
those who need to get help because thier rig(s) may be down or as an "Elmer"
outreach place!

For people such as myself once again who do not yet have a ticket, this
provides a great way to communicate with the rest of the members or any
participants to chat about anything or Ham Radio.

It also can provide a great way to do community outreach in that if Kerrhams
has an IRC channel, once again people can come by and ask questions or
interact and find out generally anything about Ham Radio or our region's
efforts in how Hams help the public in a realtime conversation (if people
are active in the channel).

Files can be shared, and private communications can also be initiated.

Overall I cannot see how this could be a bad thing.

Finally, the kerrhams.org can have a chat room with a login right off the
website, which once again provides a means of communication or a network for
many people.

I can get with other guys whom are interested and help setup a "net" of
sorts, choosing an IRC server that is safe and secure. (I have an IRC Server
I can use from friends from my Computer Security Days). Elsewise, Undernet,
Freenode, servers such as those would be just fine.

Please reply either here or in private, The more ways to communicate the
better.

73,

John Luttrell
Harper, TX
Home: 830-864-4212
Cell: 830-496-0820

Blog: http://www.straight-jacket.net - One Universe for ALL Mankind!
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