yes, but that auto connecting/disconnecting station ID thing can be turned
off in sys op mode in echolink.
Most repeater owners/managers leave it on for some silly reason though.
There is no legal requirement to have it on, and it was initially considered
as a curticy thing...but it's very much discurtius when left on a repeater
since everyone who connects to a repeater or link via echolink is going to
give out there callsign anyway as soon as they make a transmission.

I don't much like echolink either myself.  It's got absolutely dreadful
audio even with a direct computer to computer connection, and it has that
"max head room" thing going on almost all the time.
And, now with people using it on their IPhone and having less than great
data connections all the time, the max head room senario is even worse.
IRLP is slightly better, but you still get noise and disruptions and lags
and data loss and all that garbage which makes communications difficult...
That's why DStar is kind of the way allot of people are going or wanting to
go.  It offers essentially the same sort of communications as echolink or
IRLP...communication over the internet with radios or computers at each end,
but the audio and other disruptive qualities of echolink and IRLP are not
present.  You get the R2D2 stuff going on occasionally if the signal isn't
good into the machine, but that isn't any worse than some guy out on the
edge of the repeater on a handheld or even trying to use .5 watts into the
analogue repeater...you get that going on all the time anyway so the stuff
that occasionally happens on DStar is sort of in the same ball park anyway.
But, it's digital and you have the whole world to talk to in generally good,
solid, noise free and interuption free communications.

73
Colin, V A6BKX