I guess I'm suggesting that you leave me and my Amateur Radio buddies to play real radio. If you want to play "Internet Chat" then please do it via a direct connection or do it on Skype, but please don't talk to me about it - I just don't want to hear you on the system. Look, lets be blunt, if you haven't got a radio in your hand when you talk to me, you are going to have to have a very good reason for reducing my hobby to "Internet Chat" services - a good reason for making it even harder for me to justify to Ofcom that I have a right to all these frequencies up to 250GHz - before I will accept any validity of what you are doing within the context of Amateur Radio.įor a few years I have already blocked computer users from accessing my own RF gateway directly.
Yes more of the same utterly boring drivel that we already have had to endure from some computer Echolink users. Of course they'll also talk about the weather, make excessive use of the wrong phonetics and the Q-code and ask repeatedly for yet more of those incessant audio reports, pretending to themselves that they are on a radio. It will be yet more computer geeks talking about how wonderful it is they can now use their i-phone to talk to other people anywhere in the world, even to other people using an i-phone (Errm, you could do that without the Echolink app boys!!). RANT WARNING: Please Don't read on if you are of a sensitive nature!Įcholink iphone App I'm sure that, on occasion, there is a case for accessing your repeater users in your local community remotely when you are away, need to contact someone, and there is absolutely no other gateway or repeater in range, and they re not on Skype and don't have a telephone.īut that's not what's going to happen is it. more so called radio hams trying to justify to themselves that this new internet chat application is somehow valid within the context of amateur radio.
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