The WORST thing we could do is create a bunch of redundant, local chat
or spotting pages. We need everybody on the same "page" when it comes
to contest spotting. For me, accessing one page for the west coast
when pointing west, and accessing a different page while pointing
another direction isn't going to happen.
For the time being, ON4KST's excellent chat pages:
http://www.on4kst.com/chat/start.php
is the BEST resource, IMO and is already used by a large number of
people (1000's). There are dedicated pages for different regions of
the world and different bands within those regions.
As to how to "filter" the information, one will just have to do the
best they can, for now.
Jay W9RM DM58
Keith J Morehouse
Managing Partner
Calmesa Partners G.P.
Olathe, CO
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com> wrote:
>
> Because VHF is regional by nature(except for EME), posting to a national
> resource(cluster, chat page, reflector, whatever) is not going to be
> productive. For those of us in TX, it does not do much good for someone in
> WA to post their desire for meteor scatter contacts. Clearly, the reverse
> is true as well. I have been mulling this problem over in my mind and have
> not come up with any great solution.
>
> I have thought that we might have regional chat pages where you can look for
> stations in your general region. For meteor scatter, we might have
> something like west coast, central US, and east coast. Clearly, for many,
> these areas overlap. I can see problems with this idea, but if everyone
> posts everything to PingJockey, 1)their server will probably collapse, 2)the
> posts would be running up the screen so fast that you would never see anyone
> that you wanted to work, even if they were there.S contacts will have
> chat pages / reflectors dedicated to just that. I just don't know how this
> should be made to work. We have lots of bright guys out there, now is the
> time for us to figure this one out.....
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