I thought it about time to give everyone a little more basic information about the current SvxLink situation.
The central spot for SvxLink and what’s on the SvxReflector is here.
https://north.america.svxlink.net
This node dashboard will change soon to a better front end with a light/dark option. It’s nearly in place, and just wants some of finer points installed.
You can see several fixed nodes with single talkgroups, as well as other network users who have made a selection of talkgroups to monitor. The named ones are likely to be Talkgroup Sources.
These are more than likely AllStarLink Nodes that provide for a lot of activity and varying interest and daily nets.
Some of these will change very slightly in the near future as I roll-out the new svxreflector software that will give almost universal access to the other reflectors in the family, https://ukwide.svxlink.net (UK) and https://au.svxlink.net (Australia/New Zealand) where there are other similar Talkgroups.
If you think of it as an Analog version of BrandMeister without the digital noise, then you won’t be far wrong.
You will notice that at the header of the WhatsApp Groups is a link to SVXChat that we can use for a net for any long discussions or private chats. So if at anytime you can sign up and login for a group chat or private chat as you wish.
Because of some security issues that I have had recently I have removed my email address from QRZ and my website g4nab.co.uk but there is now a contact form there for those that don’t have it, to write to me, and I will get back to you.
The busiest talkgroup on the network is probably 9050 East Coast Reflector, but the choice is entirely yours. Others are HAMRADIO2POINT0, BOREDOMBREAKERS, and so on.
If you want to make a selection of 310 in the Monitoring TG List, then whenever there is an immediate bit of news, then anyone opening that talkgroup will wake up every node monitoring it, unless they are listening to another active group.
For those of you who have the facility to monitor more than one talk group in the list, then add + or ++ after the talkgroup number will change its priority to wake up, even if another talkgroup is currently active. So for example 23562++ will be switched in ahead of any other talkgroup. 3104+ will be a slightly lower priority. 23562 is a talkgroup I use for engineerng purposes to help configuration issues in stations asking for my help.
There is an auto QSY active on 310, that if you talk for longer than 180 seconds, you will be autoQSY’d to 3100, with whomever you were talking at the time.
Any more snippets, I’ll try and drop a few crumbs later, you won’t want the whole loaf all at once.
73 from Chris G4NAB