[Dxspider-support] Communication between users

[Milan Kalina]

Hello all,

many thanks to Robert's important statement.
Apparently, users will communicate with each other either via ANN, DX, 
TALK etc. despite any prohibitions.
It gets even worse when abusing the DX command widely.
The only way is to make it clear and simple to a user, which command to 
use in order not to use the bandwidth by simple ANN/FULL or DX 14.000 etc.
The number of chat groups should not be limited, once people will start 
to use it, more group requests will appear, e.g. SIX, microwaves etc.

Best 73's and HNY 2004 from Praha,
Milan OK1XH, sysop OK0DXH

Robert Chalmas wrote:

>> [...]Take away, or very severely hop limit the ANN/F!
>
>
> Be very careful about that ! There is a high need for communication
> between users, for example to coordinate MS or EME skeds.
> Well, this should be done with "Talk", but as this command is highly
> unreliable, many use ANN/F or DX. On my side, I prefer by far that they
> (mis)use ANN/F instead of DX, to keep a clean DX database.
>
> The best solution to this communication need would be the chat command,
> but nobody uses it, why ?
> 1) Because (almost) nobody knows about it ?
> 2) Because the users don't know what chat group to use to get the
>    requested audiance ?
> 3) Because it's not supported by other cluster software ?
>
> I guess we should be able to overcome the problems 1 and 2 by suggesting
> a few very general chat groups, like "HF" and "VHF", and displaying this
> information for some time in the logon message on all nodes.
>
> When the people would become familiar with the chat command, one can
> hope they would be able to create by themselves more specialized
> chat groups and stop misusing the ANN/F and DX commands...
>
> Greetings from Geneva,             Robert - HB9BZA, sysop of HB9IAC-8
>