Erik, There have been some worldwide nets in the past. The primary reason why they aren't regularly scheduled is that they last a long time. At this point, I would suspect a worldwide net to take at least 4 hours, probably a lot longer. Looking over the Net list (http://www.dstarinfo.com/Nets/Nets.aspx) it doesn't look like Europe has much along the line of nets. Maybe you ought to start one!
To start a net is easy, you've got a reflector, just make a few announcements and do it. Ask for some net controls during the net and you'll probably get a few volunteers. A number of nets have started small, a single repeater, then area repeaters, and then regions. Connie's net1 has check-ins from all over the world, but it is a little late in the evening for EU stations. The Southeast Weather Net2 has most repeaters in its region (Southeast US) connected. And it started from a local Atlanta net with 3 repeaters in multi-cast mode. I believe that the answer is like the Nike commercial..... Just Do It! 1 Sunday 20:00:00 CST 02:00:00 Ozark Mtn D-STAR Net <http://www.w0omd.org/> REF001C 2 Sunday 21:00:00 EST 02:00:00 Southeastern D-STAR Weather Net<http://www.dstarinfo.com/Nets/SEWXNet.html> REF002A From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik Finskas Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-STAR international WorldNet? Hi all. Looking through the reflector NET-lists I fail to find a worldwide net as a meeting point for users all around the world (except REF001C as the "megarepeater"). D-STAR is growing and would need encouraging traffic to fill the newly added repeaters or hot spots in places where D-STAR is still in introduction phase. I partly can speak for my region for such. Being bit unaware of how nets are moderated and controlled, I humbly ask is there a place and need for such, and would there be some skilled operators available to run such net? I can provide a high-bandwidth reflector for the net, and propose it to be active weekly, having three timeslots for the three main continent regions, US, EU and Asia/Pacific. WorldNet could introduce D-STAR users, hot spot and repeater installations worldwide. What u say? 73, Erik OH2LAK
