"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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Your right to a point Kate. I'll give you that LL linking of repeaters
are indeed ham radio, so would be control of a repeater or say a remote
base. Thats also fine.

However using the internet where anyone on the net can access the system
is not ham radio. Its a radio connected to the WWW. Thats not ham radio.

Again, you are mistaken at this point Dan. No-one on the net can access the
IRLP system via the internet. It is NOT a radio connected to the WWW, it is
indeed the LL linking of repeaters and simplex radios using a digital
protocol. Check your facts. Don't confuse it with Echolink.

Brad.


I am not saying the idea and the system is not good, or it's bad. I'm
saying stop calling it ham radio. How about a new term...such as
INHAM....."Internet Ham" perhaps?

Dan/W4NTI