Hello and Welcome!

 Hello and welcome to blog.radiosport.network, a place to learn about using the Mumble audio conferencing for use in Amateur Radio contesting.

Radiosport.Network is a domain I own, and primarily use it as DNS for users and computers doing Amateur Radio contesting.

At the moment, I host many Mumble Audio Conferencing servers, located in various geographic locations around the world, to provide low-latency audio to contest stations and remote operators.

The public servers are free to use; I you want to create your own private Mumble server, and need a DNS name, I am happy to provide Domann Name service free of charge.

If you are a contester just starting out on remote, you are welcome to try my servers.   There are no usage limits.

If you are in a part of the world where the closest server is far away, perhaps we can try to find a high-performance server located closer to your location.

Why not locate your Mumble server at your station?

There are many reasons.  Perhaps you have limited bandwidth.  Perhaps you are just using a residential internet service where bandwidth may be shared.   There's probably a good chance that you, or some of your operators do not have a good path to your station endpoint.

My Mumble servers are hosted on Virtual Private Servers, which I lease from hosting companies.   I pick VPS locations that have prime peering arrangements with the top internet backbone companies.  This pretty much guarentees a high level of performace to most locations.   To give you an example, my eu2.audio.radiosport.network server is located in London, UK.    From my home QTH in New Hampshire, USA, it has a 30mS ping time.   From Germany, the server latency is 15ms.   From Bulgaria, the server is 25mS away.   As an example of performance, a group of US and German youths operated LZ5R in Bulgaria for the YOTA contest, with the ops in the US and Germany.   The audio was flawless for the entire contest.

Read my forthcoming blog posts for information on my publicly available servers and connection information.

-- Gerry W1VE