Hello, so I've successfully validated my call sign on EchoLink, and I loaded 
up the program. I'm exploring my way around the program reading the help, 
and all of a sudden I hear someone calling my call sign out. I found that 
space bar is the transmit button, and so I was able to converse, and my 
first contact was from Moscow, which was quite interesting. I talked with 
him for a while, and then went on to read more of the help. I've switched 
the view to the explorer mode where it shows the info in folders like 
Windows Explorer does. I went to the different locations, and it has the 
call signs listed there. If I hit enter on a call sign, the program beeps. 
Do I then say hello and wait for a response, or do I have to go into the 
station menu and hit connect? Also, if I'm talking, I'm still in the list of 
call signs. If I want to stop talking to one person, can I hit enter on 
another call sign? On the subject of conferences, how do you work those? It 
seems as though you're pretty much talking to one person at a time when 
clicking on a call sign, and that nobody else can hear your conversation. 
How do I join the traffic on a repeater on the system, and or how do I join 
a conference of people I've not been introduced to? I guess those questions 
are good for a start, and if I can get help with those, that would be 
helpful. I wish someone had done an audio review of this program for Main 
Menu or BlindCoolTech. There were a few reviews for a few programs called 
CQ101 I think, and another one called QSO.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew