[Ham-Mac] Re: EchoMac and 56K Connection

Thu, 3 Apr 2003 19:01:09 -0600

Richard,

I am afraid I gave you the wrong impression.  Echomac works fine, I 
have made many contacts with it.  My only problem is low audio.  When I 
lean close to the mike and speak fairly loud I get great reports.  I 
have had no reports of choppy audio, just low.
On the swl end I have had some chop when in contact with more than 3 
stations.  Up to 3 great, beyond that it gets choppy to me.

I will attempt to contact you on the repeater you listed.  Then you can 
judge for yourself.

73s, Gene WA4OleAndUgly
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 11:12  AM, Richard Kriss wrote:

> On 4/3/03 3:02 AM, "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>> I am using echomac with a 56k dialup connection.  I am running 10.2.4
>> on an IMAC (blue & white) at 500mhz, 384megs of memory.  The only
>> problem I am having is finding a mike that will will work with the 
>> mike
>> connection on the right side of the IMAC.  The built in mike does not
>> give enough gain, I must talk very loud, very close to the mike.  Not
>> much fun.  I first used the beta echomac and now have echomac 1.0.  It
>> really works great!
>> Gene, WA4OAU
>
> Gene (WA4OAU),
>
> Thanks for the comment. I tried EchoMac on my G4 shortly after it was
> released and it worked great on the SWL side. I found several old 
> Apple Mics
> in the the junk box and the one with the longer plug worked great.  I 
> got
> good audio comments but had to stop transmitting because my 56k 
> connection
> was dropping packets and generally dixi-chicked the QSO. I did not 
> even try
> form the office T1 line due to a major firewall.
>
> Something tells me using a 56K modem and EchoMac may be like trying to 
> work
> QRP on 160 meters with multi-band trapped vertical antenna.
>
> Anybody have an EchoMac success story with a 56K connection?
>
> Also, I am a little confused on the stations that show up with the 
> orange
> highlight as being in conference.  What is a conference connection? 
> Does
> this mean they are closed connections?
>
> BTW, we have an excellent 442.15 repeater in Austin with a full time
> EchoLInk connection. Look for AB5N-5 and it is sometimes labeled as the
> University of Texas at Austin.  I use it from the C5 and we have 
> stations
> coming in from everywhere.  I have yet to hear an EchoMac station.
>
> 73 de Dick, AA5VU
> [email protected]
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>
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