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Hi all,
Well, here's where we are in getting me on echo link and hf remote bases.
Were not!
First, for the 3rd time, my friend, Rick, wo8m, scanned and faxed my license to the folks at echo link.
It said my license is unreadable, so, no validation!
Then, a firewall test failure!
Here's what the test said.
"Windows XP Service Pack 3
Local IP address: 192.168.1.78
Firewall Test Results: FAIL
The test successfully connected to the EchoLink server on TCP port 5200.  This means that your system's TCP configuration is correct for use with EchoLink.
The tester did not receive a response for some of the UDP tests.  If you have a router or firewall installed, be sure its Port Forwarding feature is correctly set. (See Help for details.)"
Trippy's comment, where in the heck do I go on the echolink web site? I'll try to find the help, but who knows!
Now, back to the results.
"If you have Internet security software installed, be sure it is configured to allow EchoLink to access the Internet.
There appears to be a router between this computer and the Internet.  A router normally requires special configuration for use with EchoLink."
Folks, that's a crock of crap, because I have no router, just a dsl modem, what are they drinking?
For more information, click the Help button above, or see the Firewall Solutions page on the EchoLink Web site.
What a disaster this is.
Ya know folks, all is nightmare could be prevented if they just let contests go on cq100, God, all this could be prevented, all of it. All these people who have nice yards, and they can get on hf, and those of us who live in places where we can't, like apartments, and condos, what a heck of a mess! And what bugs me the most is, the ARRL, witch I will not join, because people like me, who are in the minority.  The ARRL, and most hams, don't give a crap. None of them think about this situation, none of them. What will they do, when they can no longer live where they have a yard to put up antennas?
This hobby is diing, because of these kind of things, and the attitudes. If they would only put contests on cq100, (all contests), then I wouldn't be going through all this. The powers that are intrenched, just think contests should be on hf, well, really, radio only!
Well, Monday night, on that balcony, will decide what's gonna happen with my ham future. If that tuner does what it's suppose to do, great, if not, what can I say, but cq100, for the rest of my life, and even that's declining, down hill. People are leaving in droves, the ham rules aren't being enforced.
It's killing me folks. You might think I'm over dramatic, but if I can't have my hobby back, I don't need to live.
There's nothing worse than a life, with your hobbies taken away from ya. I know hams in this town, right now, who cannot get on the air, many many of them. I ask "why", and they say, "Trippy, I can't put up antennas where I live.
" Or, "I'm too old to climb towers, and string wires, and all that stuff, and nobody has time. And 99% of the hams in this country could care less, and they won't let ham radio come to cq100, where we don't have firewall issues, port forwarding issues, issues with skype, issues with hf remote base software. But we do have the bands, the frequencies. Now, all we need is, all the hams to come over there, and we'll have everything we have on hf, and no antennas that you can't put up, either because of where you live, or, because you're too old to do all this antenna stuff, and your body and/or mind, won't let you any more.
I feel for sister Alverna, wa0sgj, in Rochester, Mn, who can't get on the air, because no hams in that city will go over there and get her on the air., I wish I could get her on the fricken air myself, but I can't, but I feel for her, she's just another casualty.
I'd love you to send my email to ARRL, you have, for sure, my permission. They have no idea about those of us out here, and what they either don't care to see, or, what they fail to see is, in the future they will be in the same situation as people like me are in. We will all get older, we will all be where we can't put up antennas, due to space limits, or, our bodies and/or minds will fail.
Trippy, ac8s

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