Just this afternoon, I worked my first DX when Wayne, an English ham called me. My first “QSO” was with Phil, a retired plumber in Connecticut. I’d never used a mike on this computer until now, so it was set way too high. The second was getting the microphone volume set properly. ![]() Programming it to accept accesses on the ports that EchoLink uses cured that. It has a built-in firewall that rejects accesses on all ports, except those I allow. ![]() Once you’ve installed the software, all you have to do is point and click and you’re connected to the ham at the other end (once you have registered your callisgn with the server). On my ADSL line, it took less than a minute. The downloadable file is only about 1.5 Mbytes, which should be doable even on a dialup line. The software is very easy to download, install, and use. Via EchoLink, for example, I can make contacts through repeaters all over the world. What makes EchoLink so cool is that amateur radio operators are using the technology to connect their VHF and UHF radios and repeaters to the Net. Now VOIP is nothing new, and many chat programs use this technology. What EchoLink is is a way to connect to other amateurs over the Internet using VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). ![]() I just happened to be in my office, so I pulled up the website. A couple of weeks ago, I was chatting with a guy on our local repeater, and he happened to mention that a friend of his had started using something called EchoLink.
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