"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.

You are wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG!!...

IRLP does NOT allow ANYONE on the internet to access the system, it is NOT
connected to the WWW, you are mistakenly thinking of EchoLink, which we are
not debating here... Again you show your ignorance..

The ONLY reason IRLP uses 'the internet' is to make the linking of repeaters
via landline affordable to the average ham, rather than an expensive
exercise obtaining a dedicated leased line. There is the exact same
potential for unlicensed users as there is on your local 2m repeater, or on
40m....

If you support the landline linking of repeaters then you MUST also support
the IRLP system, it is the exact same concept except using technology that
makes it affordable to almost every ham....

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