[Lowfer] Chat room

[Ed Phillips]

Dan Ferguson wrote:
> 
> The chat room has the advantage of being 'live'.  There is one for shortwave
> listeners on StarChat.net (#swl)  thta works well, and has someone in there
> most all of the time.  The disadvantage is that it makes it easy to fail to
> put stuff into mail lists, where it is a little more permanent, but that
> really has not been a problem withh the #swl room.
> 
> Most of us on the #swl room have learned to read typo; cause most of us type
> in typo.
> 
> For anyone who might want to try it, I have created and registered a #lowfer
> room on the StarChat.net IRC network.  Use IRC client (I use MIRC, available
> from www.mirc.com), connect to any StarChat.net server (I often use the
> server Gatorville.TX.US.StarChat.Net).  Once connected, join #lowfer with
> the command "/join #lowfer".
> 
> If it turns out to be useful, I'll be happy to continue to administer it, or
> to turn administration over to one of the Lowfer gurus.  Admin isn't
> difficult.
> 
> Dan - k4voa

	This discussion reminds me of what I did as a kid back in Missouri, a
couple of years before WW2.  A friend of mine and I were trying to
bootleg on 5 meters, and kept phoning each other to say "can you hear
me?" and stuff like that.  Distance was maybe a couple of miles. 
Rhetorical question is that when we have the internet what do we need
radio for?  (Of course, I know the answer......)

Ed