Dear Asad Bhai
Thank you for your comments , I have highlighted my comments.
can anyone guide me , what we learn in ECHOLINK EXPERIMENT?
***You play around with VoIP technology.
--- Your answer is “PLAY” , my question was what we learn ? So no learning other than “PLAY”?
Yes If ECHOLINK teaches us what is VOIP , how it works , what are its protocol , how to configure VOIP then it sounds learning otherwise it is only “PLAY” that actually don’t reflects amateur radio.
May I Know …what VOIP configurations we do in ECHOLINK ?
Audio in , Audio out and PTT ….. this is VOIP ?
VOIP is a complete subject and in ECHOLINK we don’t even learn “V”.
www.fring.com download it and install in your WIFI Capable mobile phone and PLAY with VOIP through WIFI and WIMAX , let me know if you enjoy more than ECHOLINK or not . Don’t forget we don’t need a Radio.
We are going after it because it is free and easy to connect with internet?
*Right. You still need a call sign though.
--For all chat and online forums you still need to go for self introduction and registration…. Right ?
If we are looking for a chat forum we can go , yahoo , hotmail , ICQ , MIRC ………….
***EchoLink is not a forum. MSN has discontinued its chat rooms.
--The current best online forum is Yahoo , you can find all kind of topics there ………. Forums somehow sounds sharing of experiences and knowledge since you said ECHOLINK has no forum so
may I consider it CHAT with Voice ?
so Skype , MSN , AOL , Yahoo provide same features and sound much better and easy to install ---- isn’t it ? So why we need a radio ?
we should go for a portable PC or PSP or a mobile phone to play and enjoy more conveniently …am I right ?
I am not against ECHOLINK nor I am one who says : Grapes are Sour.
***Cool!
That’s true, I used best ECHOLINK systems in the world that are TM-V71A + TM-D710A + PG-5H and FT-7800R with Signalink USB …… I just made it active for few days , experimented it and finally closed.
But the thing I need to know from it is what we get technical out of it ?
***Worldwide junk-free communication with fellow hams at the cost of a computer and the internet.
Join any type and any kind of forum at Yahoo , ask any question and share your issues and problems with the forum and the whole world will be available to answer you in a much better way .
In ECHOLINK you will find Junks in Thailand and many other Asian countries , by the way mostly users don’t attend AP land calls .
With due apologies form PARS members , I would like to share my listening experience from a LOCAL ECHOLINK setup made by one of our HAM FRIEND ….. a BRITISH station was calling and our brother have no words to share with him in English . We don’t know how to speak English and respond to them in a fluent way . In Radio we can at least say 5-9 , 73s ……..
Does it define true sprits of Amateur Radio ?
Any role In Disaster ?
***Probably... -NO role at all.
If we have fast internet access at any place do we still need a radio ..... how funny isn’t it ?
We need to go for real technical education , we should learn electronics , semiconductors and future technologies.
This is the education that our nation need for their survival . The enemies of Pakistan actually want us to PLAY and remain busy in PLAY.
Asad Bahi you are living in such a country whom I consider the paradise for Amateur Radio …. Kindly let me know what you can do for us …?
Can you assist PARS members who believe in experimentation? We have many talented brains here who are helpless due to non availability of components and technical material ….. can you help ?
Secondly we don’t have such Voice bandwidths so common that a common man can get access to it.
Lets spread Technical radio education that our nation actually require , don’t forget ARRL still publish HAND BOOK and their first Chapter always say learn radio basics. May be at the end of the book you can find ECHOLINK.
Final words : There is no problem to go for ECHOLINK experiments on individual basis …..but we cannot focus or rely on that.