hey shawn. i'd take the newest one you have, i now have 72 or so alamrs now!
grin. noone's been on though except the repeaters of course. added a few of
my own from other blind hams i know.
Matthew Elliff KC0QJJ
echolink node number is 120011
73s!
----- Original Message -----
From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: a question on using The great big jumbo echolink favorites list


> Hi Jim, John is right. In fact I just discovered
> something else about the favorite document. When I was
> compiling my list I had a word padd document for
> calls, names, and q t h's, and another with just call
> signs. They were both dot r t f(rich text format), and
> when I did a control a and coppied to the clip board,
> then pasted the result in to the k1 r f d echolink
> favorite file and then brought up echolink, suddenly
> back slash p a r extensions were at the end of every
> entry. I just thought this was something echolink
> naturally did with all it's favorite entries, but
> wondered why echolink showed stations as off all the
> time when the same station showed as on in my alarms.
> Didn't think much more about it till I sent Matthew k
> c 0 q j j my list. He replied to the message and
> that's where things got interesting. Yahoo shows me
> any text attachments. I don't have to download them to
> read them, though once I got a file from a friend
> created with office 97, and Yahoo showed a bunch of
> junk before the actual text. So when I read my files
> come back to me and saw that back slash p a r junk at
> the ends of every entry a light dawned and I realized
> that cutting and pasting from a document with complex
> formatting had added this extra junk. Word to the
> wise. I've since resaved my list to a t x t, and
> that's what I'll be sending. Jim, let me know if u
> want my version, it has 65 entries, that's not
> counting the extra 1's to list repeaters that folks
> are on. The latest list I believe u have has about 25
> distinct entries. This goes for anyone else I haven't
> heard from yet.
>
> --- Jim Kutsch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Speaking about adding favorites to EchoLink, I used
> > the previous list that
> > was posted here which included call, name, and QTH
> > but when it's displayed
> > on my screen and read by Jaws, I get the word "on"
> > or "off" stuck in the
> > middle of the person's name or QTH.  Is there a way
> > to move that so the
> > call, name, and QTH are all read before the on/off
> > status?
> >
> > 73, KY2D
> > Jim Kutsch
> > Jacksonville, FL
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 07:58
> > Subject: The great big jumbo echolink favorites list
> >
> >
> > I have compiled a fairly sizable list of blind hams
> > on
> > echolink, most are on this mailing list, a few
> > aren't,
> > but they're friends of some who are. I started out
> > with the list that Gary Jackson compiled a few
> > months
> > ago and expanded from ther. If anyone wants it, just
> > send me a message off list. I know there's been some
> > interest in the past in getting more of us together
> > on
> > echolink and maybe even starting up a net. You'll
> > have
> > to enter the calls 1 at a time in to your alarms if
> > you want, but once you have it, you'll be able to
> > easily see who's on, it's very handy since some
> > don't
> > get on very often or for very long. Sometimes you
> > just
> > have a 15 minute random window in which to call some
> > one.
> > 73 de
> > kb7clx
> > node # 118226
> >
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