So, just sign into the conference on Tuesday night and listen. It does rearrange the listing but that will self correct in the next round.
If a priority for anything comes up, like a question to a specific user, or a user requests to speak via the text box, the current speaker can pass the conference over to that user directly. You can issue a few commands in the text box (try '.help' command) but most users only use the send text function. ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio ® 225 Main Street Newington, CT, 06111-1400 USA Tel: 1-86 Fax: 1-86 Toll-free: 1-88 Contact ARRL The ARRL is a member-society and International Secretariat of the International Amateur Radio Union. And, the next user to transmit will be the user who has the most time without transmission thereby giving every user a fair chance to transmit.The text mode at the bottom right side of the screen will allow you to send text at any time you like. This way, a new user is able to hear what the topics are before they start their transmission. Therefore, when you are through transmitting, pass the conference to the user listed just below your call.
Users will propagate upward in the listing to the "NEXT-to-TRANSMIT" position. The "NEXT-to-TRANSMIT" position will be just below the current transmitting user. New users and the last user to transmit will go to the bottom of the listing. The biggest difference is in the users listing. The transmitting user is always at the top of the listing. However, you will see a few differences when connected to the Conference node as opposed to a normal EchoLink Conference from a user. The user interfaces with the Conference Node with their normal EchoLink client program. I have the max users value set at 50 just because we have not seen the number of users durring a conference even come close to this value. Not that I would try it, but at this speed, theoretically, the VPS would support 230000Kbps/17.5Kbps(per user)=13,143 users. The Raspberry Pi's upload speed was around 11 Mbps where as the VPS upload speed is around 230 Mbps. It is like have a Raspberry Pi Zero in the Cloud network but operating much faster. The VPS S has a configuration of 1 vCore CPU, 512 MB RAM, and 10GB SSD. After running on a hardware platform consisting of a Raspberry Pi, Model B, with 8GB of flash memory, located in Clearwater, Florida for over four years, the node now resides on a Virtual Private Server S (VPS S) located in Lenexa, KS hosted by 1and1 IONOS, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) company.
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The *FMCA-ARC* Conference Node Server uses the software 'TheBridge' configured within an operating system of Debian 9 (Stretch) Linux. Latest Conference Node Server Status (11/10/19)