It depends on the repeater, if you have the space bar PTT set to just
transmit when you hold it down you're in good shape, some repeaters need you
to talk before they really come up we have a few like that around me and
some others take a couple seconds to come up like the one down the street
from me, it's real bad about that in fact.if you have it set so you hit the
space bar once for transmit and again for receive, I suggest strongly that
you change that setting so you have to hold the spacebar to transmit.
John Miller N1UMJ
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud Schwab" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:45 AM
Subject: knowing when you're transmitting in Echolink


> Hi gang,
>
> I hope Echolink isn't off topic here but I have another question.  Has
> anybody figured out a good way to know when you are transmitting with
> Echolink?  It seems that I don't always trigger it when I press the space
> bar so I tuned into a local repeater so I could listen on it and I didn't
> always bring up the carrier when pressing the spacebar.  Therefore my
> question is does anybody have a way of knowing that you have actually made
> contact?
> Thanks.
>
> Bud Schwab
> W 6 Z Y P
> Malibu, California