I enjoyed tuning in to Ra each day, Saturday to Monday afternoon in London, UK. The experience had much of the character of being there in the room with him and was more intimate than listening to one of his recorded CDs.

Let me add that I was using an ADSL Broadband 500 kbps link, so my experience may have been quite different from anyone using a slower dial-up modem. At one point though on the second day, my ISP dropped my connection unexpectedly and I missed about 20 minutes of material.

The chat room format I enjoyed (rather like whispering in class without the teacher ever catching you!) but sometimes it got distracting if lots of comments/questions were being typed one after another. Actually, I was one of the worst offenders on that score! Having said that, it was an excellent way of recording notes, comments and questions for later reference (see some of mine in the other GI topic section). Also, the online participants were able to switch around between all the slides when we wanted - something the participants in Ibiza were not able to do. Throughout the entire session we were able to talk to each other in the chat room, and many interesting comments and observations were made in this way too.

The most frustrating thing though was the the fact that the sound from Ra in Ibiza kept cutting out for 4 or 5 seconds every 2 or 3 minutes. Someone suggested that this was because they had to keep putting coins in the telephone slot in the hotel in Ibiza to keep the transmission going!! Gennaro, is this true? It needs to be rectified for future webcasts.

The drop outs frequently occurred when Ra was making some very important point and often when delivering some specific detail of information. Now I have to wait for the archived sound files when they become available as the recording I made myself at the time is virtually useless.

The sound quality of the actual transmission itself wasn't great. I didn't expect 5.1 surround sound but could it also be improved in future webcasts?

Overall, though, there was a strong sense of joining in with the global Human Design community during the course of those few days and making new contacts and friends that I would otherwise not have met.

Many thanks to Gennaro for setting up the online event and for his courteous and professional hosting of it.

Gerard.