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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2021, 10:36:55 AM »

Many yutes have contempt for their elders.
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W1VT

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2021, 10:45:28 AM »

My QRZ.com profile page suggests that if you are in my log,  you have an excellent chance of getting a QSL card to confirm Connecticut.

Zak W1VT
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KA5IPF

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2021, 01:00:16 PM »

FBI you guessed wrong. I own some tower and it's all laying on the ground.
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K1FBI

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2021, 02:13:44 PM »

FBI you guessed wrong. I own some tower and it's all laying on the ground.
Well hopefully your towers will get up again someday. :'(
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KB8VUL

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2021, 07:08:34 PM »

The demographics of ham radio suggest that it is top heavy with experience and leadership.  But, when people get into a hobby, they often aren't looking for that.

FT8 is popular because you don't have to listen to anyone.  PSK31 would be a great rag chew mode if people didn't insist on sending lengthy macros about their stations and personal data. 
I found I could easily find other hams to chat with on PSK31 if I manually typed in everything instead of using macros.  The cadence of my typing made my signal stand out.

Zak W1VT

I agree with you on ALL counts. Many (mostly those not on FT8) complain about the non-ability to converse on FT8.  However that is PRECISELY the main reason for the popularity of FT8.  Your observations on PSK31 are spot on too.

Exactly.

On 20 meters today and here goes this guy's bragging...
"I'm using a 4 element StepIR and I don't even have the tower all the way up. That's because after today I'm going to my second home where I have a 3 element StepIR on a 65 foot tower. Why do I use STEPir? Because they work!!!"

First off, nobody asked him why he uses StepIR.
More importantly No One wants to listen to his egotistical bullsh**.

Maybe FT8 isn't so bad after all.


Oh, I LOVE those guys.  It's like the story about the guy in the Cessna getting the speed check and it turning into a pissing contest until an SR-71 got a speed check.  Thing is, bragging about towers.... I am flying the Sr-71.  So I whip that out, and the I got an X tower that's such and such tall stops.  Cuz until you HAVE to register your tower with the FCC and have a tower number.... your just playing around.... :)

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K1FBI

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2021, 08:06:29 PM »

Now that’s a tower!
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NU8M

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2021, 09:58:57 AM »

Hello Tom,

Glad I was able to take some time to speak with you on the Michigan State Repeater. I had no idea you had spent two hours looking for someone to speak with.
I monitor most of my working day, but can only break free for 5 minutes or so to chat on the repeater.

On the other hand, if I know someone needs help, I will always stop working to take the call-out. Most are radio checks, but we had one ham broken down on the freeway needing information about the closest town for service.

John NU8M
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W9FIB

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2021, 08:40:51 PM »

I enjoyed echolink when I checked in on the local repeater from the Philippines. It was also nice that I could get a message back home quickly if I needed to. Long distance phone calls are really expensive calling out of the Philippines. (At least on my budget.)
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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2021, 06:29:06 PM »

I thought much the same.

Tried various nodes and repeaters.

Activity on only a few at any one time.

But it's a lot better now with Echolink's new CQ function.

It basically teams you up with others calling CQ.

I've had almost instant replies when I've used it.

This video may help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-8cx_LFE1Y

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N8NK

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2021, 07:19:18 PM »

Grandpa (think of 'Meet the Fockers'), retired biomedical engineer, 47 year ham, 40 WPM CW op, etc. It's all toilet paper stuck to my ego wall.

Oh man, this thread was a tough one at first.. kinda rough.. felt bad at a couple points.. but the thing evolved into a good time for all.

Not mentioned about my ego wall is a complete lack of knowledge of repeaters, handie talkies, 2m, 144, 220 or 'echolink'. What the hell is echo link? Haha, see man? I'm a 47 year ham and utterly ignorant   :)
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KD2HCU

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #25 on: May 09, 2021, 05:21:18 AM »

As was mentioned once before. Use the new CQ feature on echolink, its the little green cq icon on the top bar.  I've used it successfully several times.  Sometimes you might have to wait a few minutes until someone somewhere also clicks on it.  I've tried calling CQ before this feature came out, but don't remember ever making a contact.  I don't monitor echolink the way I do a real radio, and probably not to many folks do, hence no listeners no contacts.
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AB4KA

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #26 on: May 09, 2021, 06:45:49 AM »

I think hams just don't want to talk to each other any more.  I throw out a "AB4KA/M monitoring" when I'm in my truck and I rarely get a response (of course there are folks that I don't want to talk to.  There a local ham who talks about the virus every time he is on, yet he wonders why no one wants to talk to him).  That's the reason I like nets, because at least then I get to talk to somebody, and CW also affords that opportunity (even if it is a signal reports and SKCC number).  FT anything doesn't interest me as it seems to me the computer is doing all the work.

I have noticed, though that folks on DMR seem much more interested in carrying on a QSO, which is one reason I'm finding myself there more.
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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #27 on: May 09, 2021, 08:26:03 AM »

Today's responses in my views where totally uncalled for.  The gentlemen ask a questions and everyone just jumped all over him for no reason at all.  I am orginally from Connecticut and back in the day people had more manners than what was shown this morning!!!!
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K1FBI

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2021, 06:05:28 AM »

Today's responses in my views where totally uncalled for.  The gentlemen ask a questions and everyone just jumped all over him for no reason at all.  I am orginally from Connecticut and back in the day people had more manners than what was shown this morning!!!!
Back in the day 2 meters was active all the time in Connecticut. If we were back in the day we wouldn't need the internet to play radio. Back in the day we didn't even have Internet. Welcome to 2021 for better or for worse..
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N1YFA

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Re: No Response to CQ on Echolink
« Reply #29 on: December 27, 2022, 06:39:37 PM »


I am interesting in the psychology of why hams don't seem to respond to calls made on Echolink

I know this is an old topic but I had to chime in with a first hand observation. I remember one time a new Ham that had been calling on the repeater throwing his callsign out. I was busy with something so I wasn't able to answer him. Another Ham did and he asked, "This is __(Callsign)__ is there something I can help you with? Do you need assistance?" The gentleman came back and said, "I was just looking to talk to someone on here". The other Ham came back to him and said, "Oh, there really isn't anyone on this repeater, no one talks on repeaters around here".

Sadly, Ham Radio IS HF. Plain and simple. You enter on 2 meters just to be told that Hams don't use 2 meters because it doesn't talk around the world. Repeaters are not reliable because in an emergency, they will go down and HF will be the only thing that will reliably work. Echolink? HA! That topic is even worse. I have gotten my head chewed off for using it because "Its not real Ham Radio". So, you are forced to upgrade and join the crowd on HF if you want to talk to someone. I know this is all a load of you know what. But it is what it is. I have been told or heard a lot more that I wont even mention here.

Many new Hams are told this and that HF is where its at. Its where all the Hams hang out. Some of these Hams will bad mouth repeaters and those that use them. This sort of behavior has been going on for a couple decades now and it only gets worse. It is disgusting and might be the reason you don't get an answer back. In some places, no one is there. If they are, CQ is not something people do on repeaters so they probably don't bother going against the norm.  If new Hams are taught this way and the ones who have been Hams follow that, how are you going to have any activity on these bands?

Personally, yes, I have used DMR, and Echolink, and talked on repeaters. But I also like using 2 meter simplex. I view Ham Radio as a huge tool box. Its not one band against the other or one class license against another. If I happen to be out and about and don't have my radio, Echolink is very useful. Also when I want to check into the nightly traffic net in my old home state. Would I always use it? Absolutely not. In fact I haven't used it in just about a year. DMR? Again, I use it as needed. Repeaters are good when you need to reach many people too far out from you, but if I am in range of everyone who is talking, I use simplex and I only use the power necessary to reach all of them.

I am sorry you didn't make contact with anyone, but Ham Radio is what Hams make of it. I realize that this thing with repeaters isn't like this all over the place and there are many Hams who love Echolink but many pockets of the country are different and in some spots, you wont hear a single voice across the whole band.
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