do you use echolink eqso or irlp?

[g3zhi]

if so please let me know

73 Ian G3ZHI

http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi - many ham radio links
http://www.ukirlp.co.uk

G4NJI IRLP 5200 Echolink 135909
Rotherham simplex 145.2875mhz

GB3XN IRLP 5708 Echolink 153126
Langold 430.925 Mhz

Ian Abel G3ZHI
52 Hollytree Ave
Maltby
Rotherham
Yorkshire
S66 8DY

Tel: 01709 799911
Mobile 0783 338 0578

[KI4DYA]

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[K0RGR]

I run Echolink node 19475. We have a number of people who come to the Mayo Clinic and use it to keep in touch with home, as well as a few who monitor it for incoming traffic. I think it's a lot of fun!

[KB9YCO]

We use Echolink, on a restricted basis, to stay in touch with some of the people that have moved away and still want to check in to the local machine now and then. While I don't think it's a replacement for traditional radio, it is certainly a fun and useful tool. After all, it's all about communication.

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Exactly. #I occasionally use Echolink (node 167611) for a change of operating pace. #It's fun, it has it's place, and it is communicating. Just one more thing you can do with a ham radio license.

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[KB1GYQ]

Neither.

[KB5WX]

ditto

[ke4pjw]

We just got IRLP working on our group's repeater (http://www.groovin.net/ke4pjw/r) a couple of weeks ago.

It's been great fun. I was able to dial up the ham in Kentucky that sold us the radio and duplexer. It was nice to have a converstation with him again.

[WA2ZDY]

I use it from time to time. I have no DTMF mic for my UHF rig, so if someone else connects to the K2ADA repeater and calls, I'll talk to that person. If ever I get a DTMF mic for my GM300, I might initiate then.

I'm not against it. As has been said, it's not totally ham radio, but it's a communication tool. There are plenty of examples where means other than purely RF in a ham band have been used, so there's no reason for folks to be thinking VoIP is some sort of abberation.

There have certainly been times where repeaters have been accessed by &quot;reverse autopatch&quot; by licensed hams. There have surely been guys with wireline remote controlled stations, and back in the heyday of packet, there were plenty of wireline links to packet nodes overseas.

So will someone please tell me what the BIG BEEF is with VoIP? Hell, my PHONE at home is VoIP via my cable company. Does that mean it's not a REAL phone and those believers in Ma Bell and the Golden Boy won't talk to me on the phone?

Geez folks, get the RF purity out of your heads. I know you've used a repeater. To some, THAT isn't even &quot;ham radio.&quot;

Simon says it's time to move forward with the clocks and calendar. &quot;Even if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there.&quot;

[KC7HDE]

I have never used this mode yet, I hope to soon and think that this is a neat way other than Phone patch to stay in touch with others.

I hope this does not go the way of VHF Paket.

73
Norm T.