It was one of those spur of the moment ideas… Once I got my Android Smart Phone for 
Christmas and I figured out that there was an ECHOLINK APP for the phone then it made perfect sense to hook up my old ECHOLINK NODE back up so I could link back to my 2m radio from my phone if I was not within range of normal 2m communications.
Back in late 2005/early 2006 I was doing this with the 2m radio being set to the OVMRC Repeater VE3TWO Frequency of 147.300. This worked great and so I figured that if it worked last time then it should work this time…
Can anyone out there see where this is headed??? All the old parts were still intact. My Rigblaster NOMIC sound card interface set up for my Yaesu FT2400 with the right cables. This I know works as its the same setup up for when I operate APRS from home so its already configured correctly for receive and keying the radio up for transmit.
So it it works with the above gear and the computer like the sound card settings then when I go with the following setup…
Only real difference is the soundcard settings and the software…
And thats were we sit at this time. The mechanics of the setup work fantastic. No issues with keying up the radio or off keying its works great. However the audio quality on TX and RX is leaving much to be desired and it looks like this could take a while. It seems that UI View/AGWPE for APRS is much easer to set sudio levels for than ECHOLINK is…
I have a new shack computer (hand me down as Liz is getting a new desktop) coming in in the near future so I hope the sound card config issues will be cleared up with a newer, faster computer to work with… Failing that somewhere in a box, here in a corner of the basement is the very old desktop from 2005-2006 that might still even have the old software on it and perhaps I can dust that off and breath life back into it for the amateur radio community…
In the meantime if you follow Echolink keep a watch out for VA3QV-L which would be me trying
again to get the audio levels set correctly (so link in and say hi and give me your opinion of how it sounds to you). If you see VA3QV on the stations list then its either my Phone or my Acer Netbook with the internet stick and then just try and connect and say hi…
More on how this work in progress continues …. Its all in the configuration…
73bob
