I am just starting to get my Technician license. I'm wondering about
using the internet and print instead of voice to communicate via Short
Wave. I've been reading some about ECHO but don't have a good
understanding of that principle. Would one be able to communicate via
the internet with just a Technician's license or would I need a general
license?? Some people in the club that I'm part of mentioned something
about ECHO as a means of communicating but I think that might require
morse code which I don't know yet.

Thanks.

On 29 Dec 2005 19:41:25 -0800, "
wrote:

I am just starting to get my Technician license. I'm wondering about
using the internet and print instead of voice to communicate via Short
Wave. I've been reading some about ECHO but don't have a good
understanding of that principle. Would one be able to communicate via
the internet with just a Technician's license or would I need a general
license?? Some people in the club that I'm part of mentioned something
about ECHO as a means of communicating but I think that might require
morse code which I don't know yet.

Thanks.

http://www.tapr.org/packetradio.html

Packet Radio was mentioned to me -- but being as I'm new to all of this
-- I don't quite have a concept of that yet. But the website looks
very imformative. I'll have to spend some time studying up on it.
Thanks for the information.

wrote:
Because I'm hearing impaired but still very interested in short wave
radio. I use lipreading a lot to understand conversations. So, on a
radio I may have difficulty understanding what is being said. I do
understand the benefits ( and drawbacks of VoIP as that's what we use
at work. Still I don't want to miss out on SWR either. Does that make
any sense?? Thanks for your input.

I'm hearing impaired too.

But isn't SWR (Shortwave Radio I assume) broadcasts widely available as
webcasts now? At least most of the majors are going that way.

Webcasts would still require me to "listen" right? That would not get
it in print?? I think??