[PaQSO]Echo Link

[Bill G. K3SV]

Echo link would be great....but I can never get it to work for me!

73 Bill K3SV


Gene Warner wrote:

>Why don't we just eliminate all mobile and portable operation?
>That way we could just sit in our comfy warm and dry shacks instead
>of going out in weather like we had this past weekend, erecting
>temporary antennae (again in the rain and wind) just to put some
>of the less active counties on the air.
>
>Oh my gosh... I wonder if anyone has a home shack sitting on a 
>county line!
>
>All in all... I think people are blowing this way out of proportion.
>Let's go back to the discussion of allowing Echolink contacts.
>
>73
>
>DE AD3E
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob Schreibmaier
>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:52 PM
>To: PaQSO at mailman.qth.net
>Cc: Jim
>Subject: Re: [PaQSO] County Line Ops
>
>Maybe a minority, but I agree with you.  I've always
>felt that county line operation was a bit questionable,
>at best.  In many cases, it's not very clear where the
>line really is!  Is it right at the sign that says,
>"Potter County - God's Country" or is it where the
>pavement changes or is it at the township sign or
>is it...  well, you get the idea.
>
>Of course, I was gone for over 20 years and just came
>back in 1997.  By that time, county line operation
>was "the thing."  So, I just bit my tongue and got
>on with operating.  :-)
>
>73,
>Bob
>K3PH
>
>Jim wrote:
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>>I may be in the minority here, but I do not like the
>>concept of county line operation.  You are either in
>>one county or the other.  Since a line is imaginary
>>and paper thin, it can be no other way.  CL operation
>>is a clever way to "bend" the rules.  
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