The chat channel over at DXER.ca/blab is hopping tonight.

Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

> On Mar 11, 2019, at 8:49 PM, Nicholas Hall-Patch <nhp@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply on this Rick. I did a bit of nosing around also, and
> used the Icechat client to check into Starchat. Trying #mwdx yielded:
> "this channel has been forbidden: CLOSED", so that is history, apparently.
> Pity, as I think some sort of archive existed as well?
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
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>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:33 AM Rick Dau <drummer1965us@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nick, I can answer that. During MW DX seasons about 5 or 6 years ago, I
>> was a regular -- almost nightly -- visitor to the #mwdx room on
>> Starchat.net. About 2 years ago, I attempted to get back onto it, and was
>> unsuccessful, as was Shawn Axelrod in Winnipeg (I think it was due to
>> Starchat being powered by Java, which was having some sort of security
>> issue at the time). Just for grins and giggles, I tried again this
>> evening, and could not even get past Starchat.net's homepage. When I typed
>> "mwdx" in the search page, it wasn't recognized as a room. So Starchat.net
>> isn't an option anymore, at least not for me.
>>
>> A couple years ago, I found librairc.net/chat, and was able to get #mwdx
>> going as a room there. I did let a few folks know about it, and some, like
>> Shawn and longtime IRCA member Tom Laskowski in South Bend, Indiana, were
>> able to find their way onto it. Others could not, so I gave up pursuing it.
>>
>> Tonight, however, I have found something that I think will pass muster.
>> One simply goes to librairc.net's sister page, http://www.chanops.org.
>> Once there, you'll see a homepage with a pair of fields -- one for a
>> nickname and one for a channel to go to -- under "Think of a nickname..."
>> Type in a nickname that you want to use, and you do NOT have to click the
>> box underneath that says "I have a password". Then go down to the Channel
>> field, type in #mwdx, and click on the Start button. THAT should get you
>> in.
>> And the best part is....no registration required!
>>
>> Crossing his fingers and hoping this will work,
>> Rick Dau
>> South Omaha, Nebraska EN21af
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: IRCA <irca-bounces@hard-core-dx.com> on behalf of Nick Hall-Patch <
>> nhp@ieee.org>
>> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:47 PM
>> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>> Cc: Hard-Core-DX
>> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands*
>>
>> First rule is to see what's already available.
>>
>> bcblog had its last submission less than two hours ago.
>>
>> Does anyone know what happened to #mwdx?
>>
>> Even ye olde DXFishbarrel can
>> help http://www3.telus.net/public/shallpat/test/display.htm
>> Obviously most relevance to the northwest DXer, but if the thing is
>> lit up like a Christmas tree in the evening, checking for TAs
>> anywhere in America might be productive, and if it's lit up at your
>> local sunrise, it may mean that conditions are good overall, and that
>> switching on the radio would not be amiss.
>>
>> best wishes,
>>
>> Nick
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>> At 17:09 2019-03-11, Mark Pettifor wrote:
>>> Would this be similar to the BCB / SW / etc. log pages at dxworld?
>>> (Ex: http://dxworld.com/bcblog.html)
>>>
>>> Besides AM DXing, I've been wanting to do more SW DXing, and a quick
>>> page for alerts for both would be great for that. I think maybe
>>> there's 4 people in the entire world who use the SW logger at dxworld...
>>>
>>> Mark Pettifor
>>> Goshen, IN
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 2019-03-11 12:12 pm, R. Colin Newell wrote:
>>>> Last week someone posted a "wouldn't it be great if we had a
>>>> live DX spotter chat window web site 100% dedicated to SWBCing
>>>> and/or MW DXing ?"
>>>> You know, a place where you could quickly sign in and post an alert that
>>>> you're hearing HCJB on 9560 khz or Voice of the Voyager on 6160 khz...
>>>> or there is a great TA opening to the West Coast...
>>>> Show of hands: Who would use a system like this?
>>>> I have some free server space and some ideas about domain names that
>> could
>>>> be fun...
>>>> Anyway... hands!?
>>>> --
>>>> Colin Newell - Editor and creator Coffeecrew.com
>>>> <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and
>>>> DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -
>>>> Ham Radio VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - B.C. Canada
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>> Nick Hall-Patch
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