Why is there so much hostility towards IRLP?

What damage? If anything it will maybe help save the hobby which
is little, by little dying.


The purists are out against anything that intermingles and supplements
amateur RADIO communications with commercial RADIO and NON RADIO networks no
matter how much it enhances the end product of VHF/UHF Amateur Radio.

If you can talk from here to there on VHF using neat tricks why bother
taking tests to get on HF ?

IRLP and Echolink are Amateur Radio blasphemy to the puritans.

To me, its all neat stuff.. even the HF. Part of being interested in overall
communications technology rather than a narrow sampling of what is
available. To each his own.

Steve
N2UBP