+<H2><A NAME="ss11.18">11.18</A> <A HREF="adminmanual_en.html#toc11.18">chat <group> <text> (0)</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P><CODE><B>chat <group> <text></B> Chat or Conference to a group</CODE></P>
+<P>It is now possible to JOIN a group and have network wide conferencing to thatgroup. DXSpider does not (and probably will not) implement the AK1A conference mode as this seems very limiting, is hardly used and doesn't seemto work too well anyway.This system uses the existing ANN system and is compatible with both otherDXSpider nodes and AK1A clusters (they use ANN/<group>). You can be a member of as many "groups" as you want. To join a group type:-
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ JOIN FOC (where FOC is the group name)
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+To leave a group type:-
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ LEAVE FOC
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+You can see which groups you are in by typing:-
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ STAT/USER
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+and you can see whether your mate is in the group, if he connects to thesame node as you, by typing:-
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ STAT/USER g1tlh
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+To send a message to a group type:-
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ CHAT FOC hello everyone
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+or
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ CH #9000 hello I am back
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+See also JOIN, LEAVE, SHOW/CHAT</P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss11.19">11.19</A> <A HREF="adminmanual_en.html#toc11.19">clear/announce <callsign> [input] [0-9|all] (8)</A>