Amateur satellite chat rooms
Each satellite has a room. It is open for you from 10 minutes before the satellite rises over your station to 10 minutes after it sets, for passes that climb above 10 degrees, and you can read any room before that. The list starts with your own satellites from the map and the rooms with people in them. Messages stay in the server's memory for 10 minutes. Callsigns are typed in, nobody checks them. Read the chat rules before you write.
Your station:
Choose a room in the list.
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Arrange skeds here, but do not pass QSO information (reports, rogers, 73) while a QSO is going on: EME practice counts a QSO whose details were exchanged in a chat as invalid. Messages are kept for 10 minutes only. Chats for longer skeds
Abuse, spam or anything illegal: use "Report" in the message menu. Chat rules and contact
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How the rooms work
A room opens 10 minutes before a satellite rises over your station and closes 10 minutes after it sets, for passes that climb above 10 degrees. Everyone on the same satellite is in the same room, so you can agree on a time, a frequency and a locator before the pass. Messages vanish after 10 minutes and nothing is stored: there is no account and no history.
Which satellites
Each satellite of the catalogue has a room, from FM satellites a handheld can work to linear transponders such as RS-44, and the ISS. Open the user guide to see how to arrange a contact with another station.