For more information, visit Guidelinesġ) You need to be an approved Echolink user and be authorised by EchoLink. There are more than 200,000 validated users worldwide - in 151 of the world's 193 nations - with about 6,000 online at any given time.
The program allows worldwide connections to be made between stations, or from computer to station, greatly enhancing Amateur Radio's communications capabilities.
#ECHOLINK STATIONS ONLINE SOFTWARE#
Just as you would listen before transmitting on any repeater, you must listen for at least 10-15 seconds for link activity before making any transmissions as there may already be an active connection or local QSO in progress.ĮchoLink ® software allows licensed Amateur Radio stations to communicate with one another over the Internet, using streaming-audio technology. This may be due to the node being down for system maintenance or I just decided to shut it down for a while in support of public service events or for other reasons.
You may occasionally find the node disabled or inaccessible. Standard good radio operating procedure applies at all times, which includes the use IDing using your FCC call sign. This page describes the operating guidelines that are specific to the W6SRR-R EchoIRLP node. However, if abuse occurs, I do reserve the right to restrict access to approved users or shut the node down. I run this node for personal use, but am happy for fellow licensed radio amateurs to freely make use of it. I can be in Chicago and connect to a repeater in Sandton, South Africa - Wollongong, Australia - the Isle of Wright off the southern tip of England.This is an open/public node, before using it please read the guidelines below regarding its use. I can be in the northwoods of Wisconsin and connect to my “home” repeater in Schaumburg, IL. Or I can be in Schaumburg and hit any one of a small bunch of repeaters up in northern Wisconsin. I can be in Springfield, IL and connect to a repeater in Springfield, CA. I can transmit on those repeaters and others on those repeaters can reply to me. Petersburg? Which one - Florida or Russia? Either one.
#ECHOLINK STATIONS ONLINE LICENSE#
You can talk to the world on a network of thousands of FM repeaters using EchoLink and all you need to do it is a valid amateur radio license and one of the aforementioned devices. You literally don’t even need a radio to do it. It was one of the most mind-blowing things ever. “EchoLink DX-ing” as one of my ham friends calls it. Yes - there are some folks who don’t consider it “real amateur radio” and I can see their point. But it’s also A BLAST and that makes me not care what some others might have to say about it. I can talk about COVID with people in Italy. I can have extended, sad conversations with people in crime-ridden areas. Sometimes, you run across people who need to vent and you need to listen. Sometimes you need to vent to someone other than the regular crowd on the local repeaters. Talk to the locals - they’ll almost certainly want to talk to you. It’s a “novelty” of sorts when a distant EchoLink station connects. Drop your call and approximate location right off the bat so they know what they’re dealing with. I normally say “N9IJS - John in Chicago, United States” and see if anyone answers. If they don’t, there’s probably no one listening. With a radio, you and the rest of your town can tune in and listen and no one knows you’re listening. With EchoLink, many (if not most) repeaters will “announce” your connection. So treat any connection as one where you just dropped your callsign and are waiting for a reply. You might have connected in the middle of an active QSO, you may have connected to a repeater with *0* active listeners - or anywhere in between. What seems very normal to you might be absolutely fascinating to someone in another country (and vice-versa). You might find that no matter where you go, everyone has the same sort of day-to-day issues.
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