It was a race against the calendar to keep the service known as Ham.Live [pron: Ham Dot Live] on the air while it made the transition to an open-source model at the end of this month. With so many amateur radio net participants relying on it for net logging and realtime chat, the June 30th deadline loomed large. Now it has been picked up as an open-source service by the Sachse Amateur Radio Club N5SAC, which is asking fellow hams to help beta test its operation on a new server.
Keeping communications going under challenging circumstances is a specialty of this group, which comprises both the Sachse RACES and ARES teams. To help with the effort in testing Ham.Live, visit their website at sachseraces.org - that's spelled s a c h s e r a c e s dot org.
Other clubs or individuals wanting to develop and run Ham.Live for their own activities can visit the link on Github that appears in the text version of this week's script at arnewsline.org.
