Julian,
I had a laminectomy once, after a couple of years of agony. I
sympathise with you being consigned to bed with disk damage. Hope
rest cures you. The good news is that it usually does, although it
seems to take forever when you are the one forced to stay horizontal.
Do you know how to FORM a net on Hamsphere? If you do, I'd be willing
to join a bunch of people to chat with you about Elecraft radios.
Oliver W6ODJ
On 15 Aug 2008, at 12:32 PM, Julian, G4ILO wrote:
Would any Elecraft users be interested in getting together for an
online chat
using HamSphere (www.hamsphere.com)?
Don't scoff. I've heard all the arguments about what is the point of
a VOIP
simulation of amateur radio. I've made most of them myself.
Unfortunately,
due to injuring my back while trying to improve my antenna for 80m
in order
to participate in the real UK Elecraft net, I find myself horizontally
polarized, unable to access the shack, bored, and fed up with what I
can
hear on my bedside table FT-817 and Miracle Whip.
I came across this virtual ionosphere and thought that it is a
rather clever
piece of programming that gives a real feel of radio, unlike QSONet
which
you may of heard of. Unfortunately, there is hardly any activity on it
(perhaps the simulation is really too good) and the developer has even
threatened to shut it down, which would be a shame after so much work.
There is a precedent for having a VOIP based ham radio net.
FlexRadio users
apparently have a net on the commercial QSONet service. I would have
found
that ironic...
HamSphere is free, and is written in Java so it runs on Windows,
Linux and
Mac (I'm using it on Linux at the moment.)
I'm open to suggestions as to what would be the best time for a net.
For
starters I'd suggest 2230 UTC, not too late for Europeans and not
too early
for those in the US. What evening to try? Saturday? For the sake of a
frequency I'll suggest virtual 7.065 +/- QRM, but as the system has a
virtual DX cluster we should be easy enough to find.
Even if no-one is interested in the idea of a net, if you are
intrigued
enough to install the HamSphere software and you see me on, I'm
probably
bored and would appreciate a chat.
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http://www.g4ilo.com/ G4ILO's Shack
http://www.ham-directory.com/ Ham Directory
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