EchoLink

We won't be going into every nut and bolt, and you won't learn everything about mesh, but you'll leave knowing what you don't know and where to go next.

That's our mesh overview meeting on Monday the 12th of October, and details are on the club website at ddrci.org.au. Over on VK4RDD, the club's repeater, Echolink has settled in nicely and it got a reasonably good workout on last Sunday morning's two metre net.

At least one participant joined the net from a phone in his car.

and the audio was super clean and clear.

The words and music from this segment... are available for replay and download on our website at ddrci.org.au and contributions are welcome.

Questions, musings, articles and grand final tickets can all be sent to secretary at ddrci.org.au. Our two meter net follows at 10 hundred on Sundays on VK4RDD or Echolink.

Feel free to join us.

Thanks for listening.

Check out the absolutetech.org website, and we have lots of other nets.

Are you using EchoLink? How are you hooking up?

Uh, I'm using the local WC9IN repeater here in, uh, Fowler, Indiana.

It's coming in pretty good on that repeater.

But I will tell you that there is, uh, an app also you can get on your phone.

You have to have a license to use it, and it is called EchoLink.

I think it's echolink.com. And, um, you can use that on your phone if you're away or you can't hit your repeater, and you can get on a lot of nets.

I mean, you can hear a lot of stuff out there, so there's, there's quite a few networks.

picking me up.

This is Kilo Delta 6, Mike Tengawhiskey, via Echolink in Papa 34 land, Atascadero.

And it looks like we had some people post some pictures today of our local bald eagle fishing out of Atascadero Lake, which is really awesome.

That spent all my day outdoors.

This contact was made possible through the ARIS Ham Radio Telebridge with John Zulu Sierra 6 Juliet Oscar November in Partakal, South Africa, providing the radio link.

Audio was distributed worldwide via Echolink, IRLP and linked VoIP networks commented on favorably by all who listened in.

This was the first ARIS contact to be streamed live on the new ARIS Australia and New Zealand YouTube channel.

Chinese researchers are over the moon, following their successful completion of two-way communications between the moon and the Earth using laser.

Just have a look over to the right hand side of the page.

On Sunday morning, our two-metre net follows this broadcast at 10 on VK4 RDD or Echolink.

Feel free to join us.

Thanks for listening.

So I want to start off first with I know, I think we recorded two weeks ago in the episode.

I was talking about All Star and Echo Link.

And I apologize for the audio on that.

We went back and checked Andy's audio, checked my audio.

It struck me that one thing I never see discussed and haven't ever discussed in over a decade and a half I've been here, is the amateur radio interface with the rest of the world.

A comment I see often is that internet-connected amateur radio, like EchoLink, AllStarLink, and IRLP, aren't real radio, and that real amateurs use RF.

HF radio for the win, right? What do you think the relevance of HF radio is to a family member living in the next town after a disaster or a parent looking for their lost child? How do ordinary people benefit from the radio amateur who lives on their street or the one who travels into the disaster zone? Ultimately, if we are to take our claimed emergency response role seriously, we, as a community of radio amateurs, need to consider just what it is that we can offer to the people around us in the case of an emergency.

Might what we offer look like a Wi-Fi base station that's connected to the rest of the world via an IP link that happens to be running on two meters or seventy centimeters during an emergency? Or could what we offer be described as an amateur radio short message service? What about transmitting a DVB-T dashboard that's being updated over LoRaWAN or a local voice relay service? Where's the infrastructure, planning, preparation and training for that? Where's the documentation for it? How are we telling the local community about it? How well do we even do outage notifications within our community, let alone outside it? The point being that there are amateurs who beat their chest about emergency preparedness and, bluntly, have little or nothing to show for it.

Hi, I'm John, VK4JPM, Secretary of the Club.

Coming up after Q News, starting at 10.00, if this is the morning edition, you're invited to join our Club Net, either via VK4RDD repeater on 146.750, and don't forget the 91.5 hertz CTCSS tone, Or, if you're brave, join via Echolink.

Look for vk4dak-l or node6925 when you sign up.

And on our website, there'll be a link to the easy-peasy instructions for using Echolink.

For those who went looking on the site last week and didn't find anything, it wasn't your fault.

Despite being highly technical people, sometimes Murphy wins.