Hi Eric,
If you have a built in microphone on your laptop, you're all set, and you won't need a microphone.
73,
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eric Clegg 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:32 PM
  Subject: Echo Link Question


  Hello listers,

  All the latest talk about echo link has perked my interest.

   

  I have registered my call sign and license with echo link.

   

  I have a link to echo link on my desk top.

   

  What do I do from here?

   

  I've got a semi-modern Acer laptop computer.

   

  Do I have to buy a microphone/head set combination to use echo link?

   

  Where can I get more information about echo link.

   

  Any help would be appreciated.

   

  I want to use this system to see if I can contact my girlfriend Catherine
  Close who lives in Butler, PA and who got her tech license last summer.

   

  Her call sign is KB3WBO.

   

  She has had absolutely no luck in registering her call sign with echo link.

   

  What is the difference between echo link and the other voip provider?

   

  Here is my home number in case anyone with experience wishes to contact me
  on weekends.

   

  (916) 444-3158

   

  Since I have registered with echo link do I have some sort of node right
  now? How do I find out what it is?

   

  I have four portable antennas two Alex magnetic loops and a Buddy Stick and
  one other manufacturer of antenna made right here in Sacramento.

   

  Having no sighted help available to put these together I figure I might as
  well try my luck with echo link and see if I can get on the air that way.

   

  It would be nice to be on HF but it doesn't look possible right now.

   

  Best 73's,

   

  Eric Clegg

  KU3I