Subj : Re: i have a radio
To   : Jimmy Anderson
From : k9zw
Date : Thu May 08 2025 12:33 pm

On 03 May 2025, Jimmy Anderson said the following...
 
 JA> -=> Ed Vance wrote to Phigan <=-
 JA> 
 JA>  EV> I have heard of echolink .
 JA>  EV> I thought this was an over the air mode, i was wrong .
 JA> 
 JA> My first time playing with echolink, I connected to a
 JA> repeater in a neighboring state. Talked to a guy that 
 JA> was sitting in his truck, waiting for the tire place
 JA> to open. I was on my phone and he was using his mobile
 JA> radio and we made a contact. Was a cool thing!!!

While working on my first DXCC, I used Echolink to set up skeds with DX.  So like I would Echolink to say Scotland, asking once in two-way "who would be able to work with my on 20m SSB on Saturday at 18:00 UTC?" to see what I could organize.  

Admission here, it wasn't very useful and I don't think it mattered to by DX count, other than perhaps committing to a blocked-out Saturday for some DX who might not show or that the propagation wasn't going let happen anyway.

I also used Echolink when I was bored and didn't have access to my station.  That access issue has largely gone away with remote-station technologies, but in the day it was something to do.

73

Steve
K9ZW

.... Youth is glorious, but it isn't a career

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