[Ham-Mac] EchoMac help

[Doug Rosser]

On 10/09/2006, at 1:06 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> Patricia, ke5jex, is having trouble hearing and being heard via  
> EchoMac.
> She is in Lufkin, TX and I am in Austin, TX.  She managed to  
> connect to the
> K5AXW-R node.  I was listening on the 442.15 repeater and heard it  
> announce
> KE5JEX was connected.  The problem was she could not hear the  
> repeater audio
> and we could not hear her.
>
> I suspect this may have something to do with ports being blocked on  
> her Mac.
>
> How about some help from EchoMac users on how to open the blocked  
> ports?
>
> Her address is "Patricia Allen, KE5JEX" <donandpatricia at mac.com> if  
> you
> prefer to contact her direct
>
> Dick AA5VU

There is a very good explanation of (Mac) firewall and router port  
settings in the help file -
I have just used the information on Port triggering to get echo mac  
working for the first time (after a small delay while Echolink and I  
agreed on the correct case for the password) on my Powerbook.
Doug VK2KIQ