[Spooks] #monitor IRC Chat

[Chris Smolinski]

As many of you know, several of us folks log on to the IRC channel 
#monitor to exchange real time loggings and listening tips, as well 
as idle chat while conditions are poor ;-)

#monitor used to be hosted on the ircnet network which, as some of 
you who have tried to connect to #monitor have discovered, was not a 
very stable network, and also it was very difficult to get access to 
it if you are not in Europe. There had also been some problems with 
certain people mis-using the channel.

There now is a solution. #monitor has moved to the zirc network. The 
zirc network is very stable, and has mnay servers. I have never had a 
problem accessing it here in the US, and there is good access from 
Europe and the rest of the world as well.

If you log onto the channel, and there doesn't seem to be any 
activity, just introduce yourself. There's almost always a few people 
lurking. Any radio related discussions are welcome, from longwave 
thru medium wave, shortwave, and into VHF/UHF and satellites. Utility 
stations, pirates, SWBC stations, etc. If it's radio related, it's 
welcome on #monitor.

You can get a full list of zirc irc servers here: 
http://www.zirc.org/servers/?n=n

You can use the irc.zirc.org server, it redirects your irc client to 
a working server.

You'll need an irc client of course to get onto irc. Do some web 
searching if you don't have one, there's lots of them out there for 
Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com