SARA January 2010 Program - Echolink hands on training

If you don't have room for a large antenna array because you live in an apartment, townhouse, assisted living facility, motorhome or someplace with antenna limitations/restrictions - you may want to give EchoLink a try! Join the ranks of ~500,000 Amateur Radio operators who are registered users throughout the world. As part of SARA’s “Hams Helping Hams” program, you’ll learn

1. - Basic EchoLink theory.
2. - What software and hardware you need.
3. - How conventional 2m transceivers can connect to the Internet to form an “EchoLink World-Wide Gateway”.
4. - How voice audio is captured, digitized, compressed and transmitted over the Internet.
5. - plus there will be hands on training.

We'll answer these and other questions:

1. - Is EchoLink Amateur Radio?
2. - Does EchoLink use radios?
3. - Can a 2m transceiver be used to talk to someone in Europe?
4. - and we'll make some live QSOs during the session!

You'll learn how to:

1. - Set up an EchoLink-R station (repeater connected).
2. - Set up an EchoLink interface.
3. - Set up an Internet connection with a transceiver connected to a repeater.