ASo connect to the conferrence with your HT, and bingo it's radio.  Radio 
isn't about carriers, it's about sparks.  Radio isn't about phone, it's cw 
only.  Radio isn't about sideband, it's A.M. phone only.  Radio isn't about 
commercially purchassed applience rigs, it's home brew or at least radios 
you can fix yourself.  Radio isn't about repeaters, it's simplex only. 
Radio is about earth, it's not about sattellites.  If this is just about 
radio, let's just get on the air and call cq.  Let's distroy this list, 
because it's not radio.  Since traditional radio can't allow us to talk 
together, let's talk as and how we can.  If we want radio, we don't need a 
blind ham net.  If we want to have a big round table of blind hams; let's 
make it work.  Echo link demands you are a real licensed ham, and you 
certainly can log in with your HT.  By the way to add to my above list, VHF 
isn't real radio, only HF is radio.  I think this discussion has been going 
on ever since the first oscellator was invented a hundred years ago.