one other challenge would be that if the administrators of the system is
unresponsive to technical inquiries, the challenge would be equal to that of
a answering service which prompts you to press dozens of buttons and the end
result being that you still can't reach a human being!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: echolink


the challenge lies in maintaining patients through poor connections, packet
loss, crappy signals into the nodes and dropped connections.
But your right, that's about all hi hi.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gery Gaubert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: echolink


> Thanks for the info John.  I am not all that crazy about echolink.  Kind =
> of like net2phone or email in a way.  I got it working on 1 of my =
> computers and have not fooled with i9t since.  It isn't like dx on the =
> ham radio and that is what I am really after.  You know being in the =
> right place at the right time and dealing with a chalenge.  Echolink is =
> a way to talk to people but there isn't a chalenge there.
>