From K5ACL’s Blog: Slack Messenger for Radio Clubs

Slack! An excellent way for your Ham Radio Club to keep in touch!

K5ACL has a fantastic idea. Use Slack Messenger for your radio club’s business outside of meetings and nets.

I think a lot of amateur radio conservative types might not gel with the idea of using online chat for ham radio stuff (why not use a radio?!?) but it is the 21st century, and basically everyone has a smartphone on them always – not a radio.

Slack has been a super efficient way to chat and message surrounding a topic, and it can be a very effective and immediate way to get work done.

And it’s free.

Also shoutout to K5ACL’s Blog – really well written and informative stuff there. Follow his blog at https://k5acl.net/

edit: not everyone has a smartphone, but basically everyone does, and if not a phone, a computer will work too.

Author: N0SSC

Twenty-something year old amateur radio operator. I love everything about ham radio. Trying to learn CW and contest more, and doing my best to promote youth involvement and retention in this rapidly aging hobby.

3 thoughts on “From K5ACL’s Blog: Slack Messenger for Radio Clubs”

  1. Our club uses slack, initiated by a member who was already an enthusiast slack user at work. When you’re used to irc, slack creates a lot of channels easily. It does work for us. One nice feature (needed a bit of programming) was to post DX spots for known callsigns in our club.

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    1. The reddit /r/amateurradio weekly chat list contains a lot of chat groups, including one slack group. The most active are the #redditnet IRC and the Young Hams Discord. It’s missing the main Ham Radio Slack, hosted by K4HCK who also hosts Amateur Radio Weekly. Join it here. It’s not particularly active compared to the others.

      Also thanks for reading! I’ve seen your work RE: deep space network, awesome to have you in the hobby!

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