Re: Announce: EchoLink Howto

[Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:27:56PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:20:16AM +0200, Michael Renner wrote:
> > EchoLink is software which allows Amateur Radio stations to communicate with 
> > one another over the Internet, using voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology.
> 
> Do you call this amateur 'radio'?

Connecting Radio-based repeaters and VOIP networks together? 
           ^^^^^^^^^^^ 

Definately.  Take out the radio and what do you have.  Yahoo chat. Would
anybody use Echolink if it were just like Yahoo Chat?  Not likely. 

This just illustrates how important the Radio components are to most
Echolink users. 

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