"Lloyd" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:26:57 -0400, KC0??? wrote:
No he didn't forget! He let it out on PURPOSE! Echolink is a joke.......

Because it didn't go down. You see, oh net-clueless one, Echolink has
multiple servers all across the country, and it's not possible to kill
all of those servers with a power outage.

Lloyd is right, you know.... The only part of EchoLink that shut down was
the part that was in the area affected by the emergency, when the power went
off.

In places unaffected by the emergency, it worked just fine! In this respect,
EchoLink is every bit as valid and effective as a phone number you can dial
to report a problem when the phone lines go dead. As long as there is no
emergency the system works just fine!

Once the power shut down in the affected area and EchoLink went belly-up,
the real Hams were still able to communicate with Ham Radio by use of
battery power, as in their vehicles, or with power from a generator... Only
the non-Ham stuff like EchoLink was dead, and in many parts of the
northeast, EchoLink is still dead as this is being written, a few days after
the storm hit.

No power, no phones - No EchoLink... That's one difference between EchoLink
and Ham Radio.

Amateur Radio is independent of non-ham communications carriers; EchoLink of
course is not. Not independent, and not Ham Radio.

Anybody using a battery-powered laptop with a phoneline or satellite
link would have stayed in business just fine.

Grasping at straws already, huh? Didn't take long, did it?

In packet radio, we call the "amateur telephone" devotees who cannot
differentiate between Ham Radio and the non-Ham stuff "LandLine Lids". I
suppose you must be another type of LandLine Lid.

You know.... The kind of guy whose idea of responding to an emergency *as a
ham* is to demonstrate their ability to use the telephone. Since he's a Ham,
his phone conversation is of course "ham radio"... Riiiiiight!
;-)

It's no different than
using an emergency-powered ham station, except that it's a lot more
reliable.

I'd ask the hams in the areas with no power before I put forward any radical
statements about how "reliable" EchoLink is with no Internet connection. You
don't want to end up looking stupid and dishonest by making unsupported and
unsupportable statements, do you?


Echolink is the wave of the future AND YOU JUST CAN'T STAND IT!!!!

EchoLink is an Internet chat, nothing more and nothing less. As far as that
goes, it is no better or worse than any other Internet chat. The only
unfortunate part about it is that some people are easily confused by
EchoLink, thinking that it is Ham Radio. It distracts them from the real
thing, leaving them totally helpless and unprepared in the case of an
emergency.

Charles Brabham, N5PVL