"Charles Brabham" wrote in message
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"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
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"nana" wrote in message
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NO!.
You register your own. It is free. All you need is a valid Ham radio
callsign.


Some good choices are N7QRM, W0QSP, KA6QTH, etc.


I used a nostalgia callsign from an old friend who became a silent key
back in 1990.

As long as you do as the great majority of EchoLink users do ( never
actually use a radio ) it is as legal as church on Sunday to make up a
call or recycle somebody else's. - After all, this is for an Internet
chat, and there is no legal requirement to be liscensed in order to do an
Internet chat, is there? The fact that what you say on EchoLink may or may
not be transmitted over an actual Ham Radio repeater is irrelevant. People
put all kinds of things from the Internet out over voice repeaters,
including 30 minute recorded news shows.

Yup, exactly. Bunch of idiots.
Got a couple of those in the area.
Nearly 24/7 with broadcasts now.
"And next a 30 minute report from West Podunk, IL."

QRZ has a nice callsign database that supplies hundreds and hundreds of
valid callsigns to choose from, complete with the associated personal
info. - Just enter the call you like, and presto! Valid data for that call
is at your fingertips.

Any callsign with a Q signal as a suffix will never be issued by the FCC.

Just as long as you stick with EchoLink and do not actually use your bogus
call to conduct an Amateur Radio QSO on the air ( like you were a real ham
or something ) - you'll do just fine!

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... Hank

http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson
http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli