1Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Clive Ward G1EUC Echolink, April 2015

Internet

Mobile

RF

RF

EchoLinkEchoLink

PCPC

2Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Clive Ward G1EUC Echolink, April 2015

Echolink is Widespread

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3Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Clive Ward G1EUC Echolink, April 2015

Local 2m Gateways

• Callsign Freq CTCSS Keeper/Location

• MB7IDA 145.3375 110.9 Danbury JO01HR – Clive G1EUC

• MB7ICL 145.2875 110.9 Clacton-on-Sea JO01FS - Paul G0HWC • MB7IBR 144.9625 103.5 Bromley, Kent JO01AK - Dave G0WYG

Notes: • CTCSS is required for all Echolink gateways • See ukrepeater.net for a full list (inc a few extras on 4m/70cm)• Registration with echolink.org is only required if accessing via the Internet • See www.echolink.org for full resources/maps. • Essex Repeater Group also have a user guide for MB7IDA

4Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Clive Ward G1EUC Echolink, April 2015

Martyn’s Favourites

Node Callsign

• 6504 ZL1VK Auckland

• 5661 9H1BBS Malta

• 7385 DB0EL Munich Olympic Tower

• 45717 K2SPDLong Island Police Radio Club

• 99007 OK0BAB Brno, Czech Republic

• NB: CTCSS and a DTMF Keypad are fairly vital for access

5Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Clive Ward G1EUC Echolink, April 2015

Commands

nnnn direct connect to the station with index number nnnn

00 connect to a random station ( any station )

01 connect to a random repeater station ( only repeaters/links )

02 connect to a random conference server

03 connect to a random user

06+nnnn looks up node and reads back callsign

08 connection status; reads call sign of all connected stations

09 re-connects to the station that most recently disconnected

# disconnect a link

9999 connect to echotest server