I agree.  They should have a big sign that comes up or something and 
says "lets play radio!"  Gee, lets make telephones look like tranceivers 
and we can pretend we're on the radio while on the phone.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Wed, 1 Nov 
2006, John Miller wrote:

> but this idiot that invented this doesn't have any RF involved at all so
> it's not radio in the least and anyone who thinks it is needs to look at
> what radio is. Personally, I think anyone who would sign up or anything with
> them should lose their license but that's JMO.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Taking the radio out of ham radio
>
>
>> Buddy,
>> Since you signed up for the 90 day free trial, give us a report on how
>> it work and whether the transceiver software is accessible.  They said
>> there were some shortcut keys to help the visually impaired.
>>
>> The one nice thing about this product is you don't need to mess around
>> with your router ports as you do with echolink.  you can also make qso's
>> with cw.
>>
>> I think the purists might argue that anything that use voip is NOT ham
>> radio.
>>
>> 73 Chris w1gm
>>
>