I have no problem with folks using echo link, I just personally don't
consider it ham radio, no more than ventrillo or anything else is. I
love and have built several i r l p systems. That stands for internet
radio linking project. At least you have to have a radio on each end.
If you like echo link, by all means go for it, but I won't be there!!
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
On
Wed, 3 Aug 2011, John Miller wrote:
> Intolerant of those who sit there claiming they're working the world on ham
> radio when it's actually on the computer with no work at all involved,and
> will never upgrade or never have to worry about band conditions, which is
> part of ham radio, yes, we should be intolerant of laziness and ignorance. I
> wouldn't have quite as big a problem if they were like irlp and you had to
> use a radio of some sort to get in the system. I'd still not like it but
> wouldn't be as against it. a little security wouldn't hurt either, it's so
> easy to get in now it's not even funny if someone wants to try it. If you
> want to talk all over the world on the computer, get on skype or any of the
> numerous online license free chat programs and don't call yourself a ham.
> I'm sick and tired of the people who say they'll never upgrade or put up a
> station because of lowlifelink, that's why I woke up, saw how bad a thing it
> really is, pulled all my system down for that, uninstalled it and told them
> to take my call sign out of the system permanently and ban it so no one can
> try to register as me which is very easy to do. and also I've been fighting
> to have it discounted as a supposed ham radio mode ever since. I should try
> the new ham radio enforcement at the fcc, the last one was all for it but
> afraid they'd lose people, of course that's the kind we want to lose I
> pointed out but he announced his retirement a couple days later and never
> did anything about it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 4:23 AM
> Subject: Re: back on the list again
>
>
>> Hi bill, this is Howard. nice to hear you again.
>> Their are some intolerant people here who don't respect other people's
>> choice of using echolink.
>> Ignore bigots of thought where ever you find them.
>> Echo link works fine. for communication with radio amateurs.
>> It's available from
>> http://www.echolink.org
>> When you set it up, you have to set all of the station views to explorer
>> view.
>> This is done by unchecking index view for everything under tools
>> preferences.
>> The audio doesn't compare with skype. Their used to be and maybe still is
>> a
>> noon handyhams net that meets on one of the repeaters from Minneapolis, as
>> well as on echolink.
>> It's kind of cool to talk to mobiles driving around Jerusalem. Now try
>> that
>> on HF!
>> Have fun and a number of people on here have echolink nodes.
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