[Dxspider-support] Where have all the talk and announcement messages gone?

[Michael Carper]

I can provide an answer to some of this...

That is... more recent logging programs (my own HRD and others) and cluster
connectivity tools (Band Master, VE7CC... and so on), have their entire
focus on delivering spots.  For some of these programs, there not even an
option for viewing/sending announcements... much less talk messages.

HRD does have a screen that folks can go to in order to see announcements,
WWV, and access the console.  But 99% of hams can't find it... half the
remaining 1% wouldn't know what to do with it if they found it.

Announcements is an important feature, in my opinion.  For the least of it,
it's nice to be able to communicate to folks connected to my cluster node
so I can tell them about service issues if they exist.

So I recorded a video and posted it on our YouTube channel to help folks
understand where to find and how to use these tools.  I've had over 1,600
views of this video and I've found that some clubs are using it.  (some of
it is specific to HRD, but it's useful regardless)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MenkUd1rDc

I'm calling for better ability to use these features within HRD and will do
my part.

Mike, WA9PIE

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Ron Gibson <ve3cgr at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Hi Dirk,
> I've noticed the same thing, especially the lack of bulletins.
> 73 de Ron
> VE3CGR
>
>
> On 12/12/2015 5:34 PM, djk wrote:
>
>> Is it just me or does no-one much bother announcing things or use talk
>> messages anymore? Come to that, what about bulletins and personal messages?
>>
>> I ask because most of the (non-WPX) internode traffic is there to keep
>> track of who is connected to which node to facilitate stuff like talk and
>> personal message routing. We could get rid of all the "real-time"
>> add/delete user to node messages and, with minimum software changes on my
>> part, still get this stuff through in a timely and reasonably efficient
>> manner. It would noticeably reduce the inter node bandwidth requirements.
>>
>> Does anyone really care anymore as who is connected where? When was the
>> last time anyone a) did a sh/c and b) actually looked carefully at the
>> output?
>>
>> Dirk G1TLH
>>
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