Caveat Lector wrote:
Au Contraire
Echolink is an Internet chat FOR Amateur Radio Operators
And anything that allows communication between Hams gotta be OK.
Just another communication vehicle
Get over it!

I never use it but can easily understand why it can be of value to others.
And that from a 25 Year extra class ham.
Hey CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31, Packet, NTS, IRLP, EchoLink, Phone Patch, et al --
communicate communicate is da word.


Of course it is of some use. So is a cell phone, a chat room, voice or
text, or an intercom system.

But that doesn't make any of them "Ham Radio."

And I'm only licensed since 1999.

- Mike KB3EIA -