On like a monkey in a tree.

If this person was a real ham - as others has said, they would have
already invested in a computer - ( I know - taboo to stupid old folks
who refuses to learn anything ) and a mic and a head set and internet
access and they could literally check in to thousands of repeaters all
over the world.transmit on

--
Channel Jumper

that's strange, because I just recently read ona ham website that it
is and always has been frowned uponon any ham repeater anywhere in the
world and is and always has been against good amateur practice to
transmit on ham radio repeaters anywhwere in the world from a computer
if you're using a computer through echolink and therefore against FCC
rules to do so. Since FCC rules say that all amateurs must operate
with "good amateur practice" at all times. The sites said that
echolink on a ham radio repeater should only be used if you are
transmitting through echolink from another radio. And that if you are
transmitting yjrough echolink from a computer, to ONLY connect to
another computer user through eccholink and not to any repeaters,
links, or conferences, and that anything else is "bad amateur practice
and against the FCC rules).

Well, that's what the hams claim anyway.

So therefore, according to the ham website, there is NO way at all
hams in nursing homes can legally operate on ham radio repeaters
through echolink from their computers.

It has to be a radio or nothing.

Of course, after seeing how many so-called "hams" idiotic posts in
these newsgroups, I'll of course, completely ignore them.