again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham radio
....think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your dtmf
mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.
seem to me alot of hams have their own little groups anyway.and in most
cases new people are not welcome.
"Larry" wrote in message
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It's very interesting to see the emotion instead of solid logic. Ham radio
has several elements which draw people. One is the technical side of the
hobby and another is the talking side. Japan and their rice box radios has
brought to the surface the talking side. If you listen, you'll hear tons
of
QSO and people just talking their heads off. It really doesn't matter much
if it is on a rice box or on a computer for those people .. yet you hear
the
emotional responses about saving the bands etc .. YUK!

I live in a close neighborhood where 200 watts gets into telephones and
computer speakers and still some TV's and I gotta hang antennas everywhere
and make my house look like it's caught in a spider web. Now there BPL and
solar flare issues and the bands are terrible .. they suck. There's deed
restrictions, lawyers, PRB1, the ARRL the FCC. I can't talk 10 miles from
here on 75!

Then there Echolink. It won't do much for the technical side but unless
you
have used it a few times you couldn't possibly understand how nice it is
to
sit back, relax, and talk to your buddies without the jerks throwing
carriers and hog calls and pork butt songs, static crashes, dead bands,
contests, no antennas, no QRMers, no RFI ,, just hours of pleasant
chatting
with hams all over the world. I have met so many nice guys and had a lot
of
fun with the LINK and to those who want to fight it .. go ahead. When all
you can get from your radio is buzz pop click and your neighbor standing
on
your doorstep screaming for you to get off the radio .. feed your computer
sound card with a D104 and give Echolink a try.

I love ham radio but Echolink is a nice supplement.


"MD" wrote in message
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"g3zhi" wrote in message
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There are now over 132,000 callsigns registered in 139 different
countries.

There are daily additions, changes and deletions with over 1,000 new
calls
validated each week.

We might as well kiss our frequency allocations goodbye.
If we don't use them, were going to lose them.

Ric wrote:
again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham radio
...think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your dtmf
mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.

There's already a gizmo that does this. It's called a cellphone.




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And when the power and internet is down (the big Bang) scratch cellphoneys
and echo de Link
Back to HF and CW (you can operate off of battery power can't you ???)
But cellphoneys and echo de Link have their place.

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"Zoran Brlecic" wrote in message
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Ric wrote:
again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham radio
...think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your
dtmf
mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.

There's already a gizmo that does this. It's called a cellphone.




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if i lose power i have a battery backup for my computer ....As for the hf
and cw. well good luck qrp'ing with no power to run your amp.
"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
news:PF6ab.140040$kP.6227@fed1read03...
And when the power and internet is down (the big Bang) scratch
cellphoneys
and echo de Link
Back to HF and CW (you can operate off of battery power can't you ???)
But cellphoneys and echo de Link have their place.

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Caveat Lector Ya All
"Zoran Brlecic" wrote in message
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Ric wrote:
again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham
radio
...think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your
dtmf
mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.

There's already a gizmo that does this. It's called a cellphone.




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yep at a cost to the consumer can you afford to pick up your cell phone an
call your friend in god knows where and talk all day ...i don't know any
cell co. that offer unlimited time on your phone.

"Zoran Brlecic" wrote in message
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Ric wrote:
again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham radio
...think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your
dtmf
mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.

There's already a gizmo that does this. It's called a cellphone.




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Ric wrote:
yep at a cost to the consumer can you afford to pick up your cell phone an
call your friend in god knows where and talk all day ...i don't know any
cell co. that offer unlimited time on your phone.

again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham radio
...think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your
dtmf mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.

There's already a gizmo that does this. It's called a cellphone.


Top posting makes no sense. Especially in groups that use bottom posting
as a rule.

As far as the cost of "calling your friend" is concerned, let me repeat
what I already said: feel free to switch to chat rooms which are free of
charge, and even use Echolink if you want. Just don't pretend that you
are operating an amateur radio station because you're not.

The fact that the digital packets originating from a PC are being
transmitted over the limited links that use amateur radio frequencies,
does not automatically make one a ham radio operator. This whole thing
smacks of a virtual ham radio run on a simulator.

Exclusive Echolink users should just abandon any ham radio pretense and
form their own Internet "Radio" organizations with their own callsigns,
contests, awards etc. Who knows, if the BPL goes through, maybe the rest
of us will join sooner than we think.


73 ..... WA7AA




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Echolink is free, for the most part. Cellphones are not. If anything is
being replaced by Echolink, it is the conventional communications systems
that charge a fortune for nothing.

Ed Cregger, NM2K


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Ric wrote:
again amen brother. Echolink has provided a great service to ham radio
...think of this . when cw of hf no longer does the job. pick up your
dtmf
mic dial in you node number talk to home no matter where you are.

There's already a gizmo that does this. It's called a cellphone.




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I seems all the Echolinkers are missing the point. They complain about all
the things that make Ham radio interesting. Don't get me wrong, I like
computers. I am an Information system manager, but that's not radio. I guess
everybody to their own.....I just can't see the point of talking on a
computer. I would get just as much out of talking on a cell phone or a
wireless phone in the house.....whatever floats your boat?????
"MD" wrote in message
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"g3zhi" wrote in message
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There are now over 132,000 callsigns registered in 139 different
countries.

There are daily additions, changes and deletions with over 1,000 new
calls
validated each week.

We might as well kiss our frequency allocations goodbye.
If we don't use them, were going to lose them.

I don't get. Do you people know what your talking about. Echolink is mostly
linked to repeaters all over the world. Sure there are a few guys that link
direct. But for the most part you could sit in front of your computer and talk
to a fellow ham thats mobile through a repeater thats linked to echolink. You
could also hit a few dtmf tones and link 2 repeaters together through echolink
and talk to a fellow ham anywhere in the world. I think it's a great idea and
it's here to stay.

Warren
Kb2dem

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(Eberle123) wrote:

I don't get. Do you people know what your talking about. Echolink is mostly
linked to repeaters all over the world. Sure there are a few guys that link
direct. But for the most part you could sit in front of your computer and
talk
to a fellow ham thats mobile through a repeater thats linked to echolink.
You
could also hit a few dtmf tones and link 2 repeaters together through
echolink
and talk to a fellow ham anywhere in the world. I think it's a great idea
and
it's here to stay.

Warren
Kb2dem

Yep and i bet the FCC thinks it's great too. That's why BPL will happen
and the ham radio as we know it, or knew it will be gone forever, not
only from the BPL noise but from.... well just plain lack of interest.

Enjoy echolink!!! Someday we'll ponder the good old days of ham radio
and wish we had it back.

Dale, K9VUJ
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