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Amateur Radio
Echolink
Kia ora and Greeting from New Zealand
EchoLink
EchoLink is a computer-based amateur radio system distributed free of
charge that allows radio amateurs to communicate with other amateur
radio operators using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology on the Internet
for at least part of the path between them. It was designed by Jonathan
Taylor, a radio amateur with call sign K1RFD. Jonathan has been the
system engineer and administrator since 2002.
The system allows reliable worldwide connections to be made between
radio amateurs, greatly enhancing amateur radio's communications
capabilities. In essence it is the same as other VoIP applications
(such as Skype), but with the unique addition of the ability to link to
an amateur radio station's transceiver. Thus any low-power handheld
amateur radio transceiver which can contact a local EchoLink node (a
node is an active EchoLink station with a transceiver attached) can then
use the Internet connection of that station to send its transmission via
VoIP to any other active EchoLink node, worldwide. No special hardware
or software is required to relay a transmission via an EchoLink node.
See this link to download the software.
EchoLink Download