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Syncronous meetings will be held on a private IRC server
in channel #ccarc. The channel ops are Peter Fetterer KB3GTN (president)
and Andrew Buettner KB3HNS (vice president). Our server is biache.sytes.net
port 6667. For those of you who do not know anything about IRC, a brief
tutorial follows.
IRC, or Internet Relay Chat is a service that allows
groups of people to chat in real time. It is a multi threaded application
that supports chatrooms, message boards and three moderator levels. (Op,
Voice, and user). There are many flavors of IRC to include ircii, BitchX, X-Chat,
kvIrc, and mIRC. The one that you choose to use
is ultimately up to you. For your convienience, we have supplied a
copy of X-Chat for you to use. We also supplied a brief how-to to using
X-Chat to attend syncronous meetings.
Download X-Chat
After downloading the file, double click it and an installer
will begin. You can use the defaults for installing. Once the
program has installed, you may open the program.
Upon running the program for the first time, a server
dialog box will appear. Under nickname you will want to put the name
that you will want to go by, and up to two others in case yours is taken.
Suggestions for a name are your callsign, or an abbreviated version
of your name. Anything really goes here A name can be pretty much anything
up to 20 characters. It is case sensitive, but you can use any case.
For name, you should type in your name. "Andrew Buettner" for
me would be sufficient. Username should be a copy of your nick name.
The next thing is that you need to create a new server
entry to connect to the correct irc server. Click on "New Server." A
new window should appear. The server name can be anything that you
want to use to remember this server. "CCARC" will suffice if nothing
else comes to mind. For server enter "biache.sytes.net" without the
quotes. Port should be set to 6667. There is no password required
to connect. Channels should be "#ccarc" but this is not necessary. Nickname
should be your nichname that you chose from the previous section. You
can leave connect command. You may enable autoconnect if you want the
program to automatically connect to the server when you start it. Enable
use proxy if you need this. (Most people do not.) No not enable
Use SSL or you not be able to connect. Once this has been completed
click on OK.
Once the server has been created, you can double click
on the new entry that should now appear. Momentarily a black text screen
will appear and give you the details of connecting. For the most part,
you can ignore everything here, unless someting goes wrong. Once connected,
you will have a black bar at the bottom of the window. This is a text
entry box. All text will be entered here. The first thing that
you will need to do is enter the ccarc chat forum, if you already haven't.
To do this, you need to type "/join #ccarc" without the quotations.
A new tab will appear at the bottom of the window with the text #ccarc.
You will need to ensure that this tab is active. Once that chatroom
is active, you may begin "chatting." You may enter text in the text
entry window. The only rule is that you cant begine a message with a
forward slash as this denotes a command. Any text that you enter is
viewable by all people in the chat room.
If you need additional assistance, please feel free to
ask anyone who is in the room, or mail ccarc@biache.sytes.net.