Re: OT: EchoLink equivalent for Linux
Kent West wrote:
As an amateur radio operator (ham), I've just been introduced to a
very neat little program called EchoLink, which is an interesting
marriage between the internet and radio. The only problem is that it
appears to be Windows only. Does anyone know of a similar program for
Linux?
I've been able to get EchoLink to _almost_ work in Linux via WINE. I can
see who's online/on-air, I can connect to them, I can type and recieve
messages, I can hear their audio, but I can't send audio. As I've
tinkered with it, I've about decided the problem is not in
EchoLink/WINE, but rather in my sound setup. I've never used a
microphone on Linux before, and no matter what I try I can't seem to get
any indication of audio from my mic. I can hear audio if I get right up
close to the mic, but I think it's just feeding straight through the
sound card without getting digitized and processed through the computer
itself. I've tried playing with the settings in aumix and gmix and kmix
and krec and etc, but haven't had much luck. Well, that's not entirely
true; from the command prompt I can type "rec hello.wav" and record some
voice audio that way, and then play it back via "play hello.wav". If any
of you hams out there have a few minutes and have working microphone
audio, you might try downloading EchoLink
(http://www.synergenics.com/el/) and giving it a try and letting me know
if it works or not.
Thanks!
Kent
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