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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: echolink
> Hi List,
>
> Well, HF is fine if you are living on an estate somewhere and if you can
> have room for the antennas. I would dearly like to have an estate some
> day
> and be able to run high power and huge antennas. But while I certainly
> haven't abandon HF and will use it when the cycle is high again, I feel
> Echo
> Link is a viable alternative for poor people like me who are
> self-employed,
> have no pensions, no health care and only a small lot on which to place
> antennas.
>
> ...And as far as power, I get complaints from the members of my bedroom
> community when I run 5 watts on 2 meters--saying I get into the kids
> guitar
> amps and portable Ipods! This despite the fact that I routinely have my
> station checked out by engineer types to see if everything is A OK and it
> is! At least with Echo Link, I don't get any such complaints!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kallie Swanepoel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: echolink
>
>
> I agree on that one - Echo link provides artificial dx.
>
> 73
>
> KALLIE ZS6KCS
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David W Wood
> Sent: 18-01-2006 08:54 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: echolink
>
>
> Bob and ALL
>
> why not just turn on your rig and shout?!
>
> The unpredictability of HF propagation is less challenging than the
> problems of computers!
>
> David
>
>
> In message , Bob Humbert <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Scotty does a great job of explaining Echolink but Echolink just isn't
>>as
>>friendly as it could or should be. I have offered to pay anyone to set
> up
>>Echolink on my computer and to do a little hand holding with me as I
> try to
>>learn it to no avail. It's not really ham radio but until the sun
> settles
>>down and everyone turns on their HF rigs again it seems to be the only
> game
>>in town. Those of you who are good at it; is it as unfriendly as it
> appears
>>to be or are some of us just too dense to "get it". Has Freedom
> Scientific
>>written any special Jaws scripts for it and do they help?
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Kevin Kwan" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:56 AM
>>Subject: Re: echolink
>>
>>
>>> If a station disconnects you go in to your jaw curser and near the
>>> bottom
>>> it
>>> will list the last station that connected to you. I believe if
> there's an
>>> add on you can put on to echolink that keeps an electronic log so you
> can
>>> keep track of all your missed calls. It might even be a part of the
>>> program
>>> already for what I know. If so, it sure isn't speechfriendly.Also,
> it's
>>> been
>>> brought to my atention by a list member that there are scripts you
> can add
>>> on to echolink available for a fee. I don't have the scripts but
> maybe one
>>> of these days I'll look in to it and see if it makes an improvement
>>> working
>>> with speech. At the moment it's kind of tricky but if you get use to
> some
>>> of
>>> the keyboard short cuts, you can get around it fairly good. Of
> course,
>>> it's
>>> still not a hundred percent however, considering the use I get from
>>> echolink, it's working out pretty good.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:19 AM
>>> Subject: Re: echolink
>>>
>>>
>>> if they're connected to you just hit the spacebar or what ever your
>>> PTT button is, you don't need to do anything else, if they
>>> disconnect, you just have to find them on the list. I don't think
>>> there's a way after they disconnect to figure out who called since I
>>> don't use it hardly ever but there might be. I much rather actually
>>> get on the air myself.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Fred Olver" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:37 AM
>>> Subject: Re: echolink
>>>
>>>
>>> No, guys, if a station out of the blue calls me, with my cursor not
>>> being
>>> on
>>> the station calling, how do I call them back, understanding that I
> have no
>>> idea where they are on the list?
>>>
>>> Fred Olver n9bso
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Kevin Kwan" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:28 AM
>>> Subject: Re: echolink
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm not understanding your question actually either. If you're
>>>> asking about how to respond to a station connecting to your node,
>>>> asuming you hear them
>>>> connect, just press your space bar or which ever button you've
> costumized
>>>> for transmitting. If you're asking about how you can tell who they
> are,
>>>> as
>>>> they're connected to you press alt three. You'll hear the person
> call and
>>>> first name.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Frederick" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:22 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: echolink
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It depends what you mean by get back to them. Are you talking about
>
>>>> how to transmit, or how to find the station to connect to them again
>
>>>> latter?
>>>> Mark WZ0K
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>>> 13534708:
>>24:0
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>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Fred Olver" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:01 PM
>>>> Subject: echolink
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Okay, Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> So my puter is lying to me, anyway, that's what I think, been
>>>>> getting audio reports today and appears I'm being heard, so now, a
>>>>> station calls me, they're not on my screne, how do I get back to
>>>>> them?
>>>>>
>>>>> Fred OLver n9bso
>>>>>
>>>
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>
> --
> David W Wood
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