Subj : Re: i have a radio
To   : Ed Vance
From : DOUG MCCOMBER
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 07:28 am

-> Thanks.
-> I have heard of echolink .
-> I thought this was an over the air mode, i was wrong .
-> Ed

It is. Its primary purpose is to link repeaters via the Internet. But
you can get it on your phone.

In my region there is a daily morning net that is quite active as most
of the repeaters in the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick) are
linked together via a 220MHz RF backbone. But on any given day there
will be a few people who connect to one of those repeaters via Echolink.
They are then transmitted out on the repeaters.

Sometimes some random ham around the world will "dial in" the local
repeater via Echolink just looking to make a quick "QSO". 

There is also IRLP but I'm not as familiar with that one. AllStar too,
though it is probably more like DMR or D-Star only analog.

73,
Doug VE1LG
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