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LARC Echo Link

Vince Randal (KC0SZM) has been operating the EchoLink station from his home. But, starting in June 2007, Vince will be employment out of State. Thanks Vince and good luck with the new job.

Vince - Echolink - 1 Vince with
the EchoLink station.
Vince Echolink 2 Vince's home-brew
interface box
and VX-7.
Vince Echolink 3 Vince in the backyard with
the club's repeater antenna
in the distance.

Ed Krohne (KI0RU) has agreed to, setup the EchoLink equipment at his house. Thanks Ed!!

LARC Echo Link Operation

We now have access to EchoLink thanks to Vincent Randal KCOSZM It is currently on the 440 repeater frequency and the board voted to keep it there. Anyone not having a 440 rig can link the two repeaters so they can come in on the 2 meter side. This also permits us to restrict the EchoLink access if the 2 meter repeater is needed for emergency service Etc.

  • The current web address of the EchoLink Station is http://24.8.207.43:8080/
  • The username is echolarc
  • The password is vilfra

Since the stations IP address is obtained dynamically (as opposed to a static IP), it may change from time to time and the club's web page would need updating about every 2 months maybe. So if the station seems to be down (not responding to a user web browser), users should send me an email. I will look into it and send you the new IP if it changed. Maybe some variation of this should be added as a "Maintenance" section to in the info below?Description of LARC Echolink Station: The LARC Echolink station is a 200Mhz Pentium PC running Windows 98 and Echolink software (from http://www.echolink.org) interfaced to a transceiever tuned to 448.8 Mhz (the 70cm frequency of the club's repeater W0ENO). The station is located in the basement of a club member (KCOSZM) who is located close to the repeater and has high speed internet access. Because of this, a low power HT and ordinary PC can be used to implement the station. The HT is controlled by the RS-232 port of the PC using a simple home-brew interface circuit to convert the RS-232 logic levels to HT's mic control levels.Control of the LARC Echolink Station:The purpose of this information is to enabled LARC club members to control the club's Echolink station until DTMF control over radio through the club's repeater controller becomes available.

  1. Internet web access URL http://24.8.207.43:8080/

Username: echolarc Password: vilfra

  1. Directly at the console of the club's Echolink Station in my basement

Control of the LARC Echolink Station through internet web access (method 1 above) is straightforward: Simply point your browser to the URL provided above (which will change) and log in with username and password provided above. Once you are logged in it is self explanatory how to use it the web page to connect the LARC Echolink station to another Echolink station. How to find Echolink node numbers and call signs: Regardless of the control mechanism used (web, telephone, and eventually DTMF over radio), to connect the LARC Echolink station to a remote Echolink station the user will need to know the call sign or node number of the remote Echolink station. To find the call sign or node number of other Echolink stations, users can go to http://www.echolink.org/links.asp and do a search.