"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:23:43 GMT, "wonderer"
wrote:

only for those people who migrate
from old dart and europe.

Alf VK5ZKL

I thought that was where you all migrated from, OM ... although some
of you had no choice in the matter!

nah born Whyalla south aus dink di astralian.
paternal grandmothe migrated from ireland
matenal grandmother from good old scotland
no forced imagation on either side of the
family both came from noble countries.

Alf VK5ZKL



:-)

73 de G3NYY

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Walt Davidson Email: g3nyy @despammed.com

Walt Davidson wrote:
Chris wrote:

Just for the record, everyone on Echolink (links and individuals
alike) have been validated by one of the Echolink validation team. I'm
not sure that it is really necessary, but it happens. So, like it or
not, there's very little chance of a non-licenced person using
Echolink.

How can you possibly do that? The Echolink validation team, as you
call them, do not have privileged access to licensing records ... and
we are talking about worldwide records, not just the UK. If someone
appeared under a callsign randomly selected from the callbook, or even
just made up an unallocated M3 callsign and came on Echolink, how
would you know he wasn't a pirate?


Nowt to do with me, Walt. I've nothing to do with the Echolink
validation team. You'd better ask them that. I know, however, that
newly licenced amateurs have to send off a scan of their licence to
one of that team.


How do you know my licence hasn't expired?


If you give a real callsign, and sound like a real amateur, then I
don't really care.

I wish the authorities monitored on-air, and checked rather more than
they do, but AFAIAC it is not my (or any amateur's) job.

73,
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Chris

"Martin, VK2UMJ" wrote in message
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But if we look at it from that view then the whole of Amateur Radio should
be considered nothing more than CB...

You're not far wrong there :)

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73s de Walter R.

"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:56:31 +0000, Chris Kirby
wrote:

Just for the record, everyone on Echolink (links and individuals
alike) have been validated by one of the Echolink validation team. I'm
not sure that it is really necessary, but it happens. So, like it or
not, there's very little chance of a non-licenced person using
Echolink.

How can you possibly do that? The Echolink validation team, as you
call them, do not have privileged access to licensing records ... and
we are talking about worldwide records, not just the UK. If someone
appeared under a callsign randomly selected from the callbook, or even
just made up an unallocated M3 callsign and came on Echolink, how
would you know he wasn't a pirate?

How do you know my licence hasn't expired?

easy for australians the aca data base is publick domain


73 de G3NYY

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Walt Davidson Email: g3nyy @despammed.com

"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
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Australians seem to have a preoccupation with lavatorial matters. I
discovered that a lot of them think it's amusing to fart in company
too. (An unpleasant trait that they share with Cardiff people of both
sexes!)

73 de G3NYY

This thread has just run and run has it not?

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73s de Walter R.

"Chris Kirby" wrote in message
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Martin, VK2UMJ wrote:


If you wish to argue against systems that allow access from the internet
rather than from & to radio, then please go pick on EchoLink..

Hee Hee, do I smell a deflection tactic here?

Before you go and pick on Echolink, and if you don't want to appear a
total prat, be sure to comprehend that everyone using Echolink has
been validated by a team of people, and in many cases, have been asked
to send a scan of their licences before getting access to the system.

Yes, and I am one of those that have been validated for EchoLink. But that
is irrelevant to the debate about IRLP....

The argument is that IRLP uses radio linked by internet protocol, and as
such is still amateur radio. IMHO Echolink, if used PC to PC, is definately
not amateur radio. Perhaps if used PC to Radio, or Radio to PC, then it is
still amateur radio, but EchoLink PC to PC is nothing different than Yahoo
or MSN Messenger...

IRLP is not the same... That is the debate..

In article , Walt Davidson wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:28:17 +1100, G-S wrote:

Repeaters are a crutch for the lazy and inept who don't have
sufficient technical expertise to make a radio contact without using a
relay station. IRLP is pretty much the same.

73 de G3NYY


YAWN... looks like the **TROLL** woke up this morning....

In article , Walt Davidson wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:06:16 +1100, G-S wrote:

And what makes you think I lack sufficient technical expertise to operate a
radio or build a radio or accessories? I have done all those in the past.
I have demonstrated those skills... I choose to use a more modern method
because it is simply better and more efficient!

A better and more efficient method would be to use a cellphone or even
an ordinary telephone. Amateur radio is not necessarily about being
"better and more efficient". If you think it is, you've missed the
point.

73 de G3NYY


Thats where **YOU** have missed the point. Amateur Radio has demonstrated
it can co-exist with the internet and has actually embraced it.

Have you embraced Television, Gasoline Engines, the Global Economy ?

I find it hard to understand how a **TROLL** like you can function in
the 21st century...

Go back to 40m and play with your pill poppin, haemoroid bound friends
and leave the newer and more interesting technologies to people that
can accept and accomodate them...

In article , Walt Davidson wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:30:48 GMT, Concerned Amateur
wrote:

But we don't. We don't support repeaters at all. It was when voice
repeaters were introduced on the 2m and 70cm bands in the early
seventies that the rot began to set in.

73 de G3NYY


Well finally we see your colours. Anything this side of 1950 must really
hurt your point of view. I'm sorry for calling you a **TROLL*, your
simply stuck in a time warp....you just dont know any better

Repeaters were the beginning of the CB-ization of the amateur bands.
It's been a downhill slide ever since.

73 de G3NYY


You cant live in piece with **ANYONE** can you.

You are a **TROLL** out PHISHING.....

In article , Walt Davidson wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:07:51 +1100, G-S wrote:

You really have a bee in your bonet about CBers don't you!

They are simply not relevant to amateur radio ...

I wholeheartedly agree. Let's keep them out of amateur radio!

73 de G3NYY


************TROLL****************