I use mirc... but all the clients you mentioned are workable...
have never looked on EFNET for ham chat... might just check it
out--thanks...

Warmest regards,
John

"ke6cqk" wrote in message
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| "John Smith" wrote:
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| 4) IRC allows direct DCC SENDS of data from one chatter to another. (this
| begs for someone to set up an amateur chat room anyway--MIRC is an
excellent
| IRC chat client.)
|
|
| I noticed there is a channel on EFnet, it is #hamradio. I use Pirch,
| but there is also xchat which is supposed to be a good program and has
| a windows version and one for Linux.