Been a ham for 56 years. Extra class. SSB, CW, Digital. I notice that when calling CQ on Echolink from my urban apartment QTH, I seldom get any response. It is not unusual to sit at the computer for an hour or two and never get any response to my calls on repeaters
around the U.S. and overseas. I can always call into an existing "net," and this verifies that the equipment is working. But,
I am interesting in the psychology of why hams don't seem to respond to calls made on Echolink as well as to calls made with
SSB or CW on the HF bands. Is it because hams who are members of a local club which sponsors their own repeater just want to talk to each other? If so, why connect the repeater to the Echolink system? I must be missing something...... 73, W4OEQ