Message-Id: <20040312152928.JMET12770.imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[68.212.106.41]> BO wrote, >Richard the remote base way of doing echolink does not have the >problem you talk about. The receiver of the repeater does not have >a signal on it so any dtmf tone would be heard by the repeater. I >ran my echolink for a while like that . If your repeater as a >control receiver on it that also would be able to turn off the >remote base. I've seen a couple of implementations around here where the echolink node was on the regular repeater frequency and to me it's just a pain in the nether regions when a couple of lids hog your local repeater for a local qso half the world away and you want to call somebody. 73 de nf5b Richard Webb Electric Spider Productions "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the Historical review of Pennsylvania