You also can lookuup the call by sending an E-mail to [log in to unmask] with
"lookup" without the quotes in your message body and then the call.





On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Ed Barnes wrote:

> Hi Ivan, congrats on passing your technician exam and welcome to ham radio,
> I passed my basic exam (similar to Technician in the US) as far as I know
> on October 18th of this year.
> And, at the moment I'm working on getting an antenna up so I can enjoy the
> radio I purchased just before Christmas, an Yaesu FT-1500M 2 meter mobile.
> The best thing for you to do as far as obtaining access to an irlp node
> that is local to you is probably to ask on the repeater it is hosted on if
> you can already access that, after all, one of the hams on there can
> probably set you in the right direction.
> It may be as simple as asking for the codes, the node operator may charge a
> nominal fee for them, or it may be as simple as taking out a membership in
> a local ham club who maintain the repeater and irlp access in question.
> If you can't find out who to contact via the suggestions above, a first
> step might be looking up the call of the repeater the irlp node is hosted
> on via http://www.qrz.com and going from there, after all, there may be an
> email link and or a web address available aphiliated with the call in the
> QRZ database.
> Good luck and hth from another relative new ham who's still cutting his
> teeth so to speak.
> 73
> Ed
> VO1ELB
>
> At 04:33 PM 12/30/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >    Here is an (unrelated) two part question:
> >
> >1.    I'm curious what others use to take SWR readings without any sighted
> >assistance; is there a prefered talking meter out there, or even something
> >that connect to a PC via serial cable?  I"d like something that doesn't
> >need to have a radio inline (just in case) but I'll take what I can get.
> >
> >2.    I passed my technician exam on the 19th of December and got my call
> >(kc0osk) by the 22nd!  I'd like to start using IRLP (we have a reflector
> >in Denver, CO and a connected repeater) - from what I understand, anyone
> >is welcomed to talk on the repeater, but only certain folks seem to have
> >the various DTMF codes to connect and disconnect with other nodes.  Maybe
> >this varies from repeater to repeater, but what are typical practices RE:
> >properly obtaining and using the DTMF codes (i.e. donations, sign up as an
> >IRLP member)?  I looked around on the IRLP site and the codes are
> >mentioned a lot, but not lots of info exists about how you go about
> >getting them.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ivan.
>