Everyone wants to talk about the weather. You might find that no matter where you go, everyone has the same sort of day-to-day issues. What seems very normal to you might be absolutely fascinating to someone in another country (and vice-versa). You might have connected in the middle of an active QSO, you may have connected to a repeater with *0* active listeners - or anywhere in between. So treat any connection as one where you just dropped your callsign and are waiting for a reply. With EchoLink, many (if not most) repeaters will “announce” your connection.
With a radio, you and the rest of your town can tune in and listen and no one knows you’re listening. If they don’t, there’s probably no one listening. I normally say “N9IJS - John in Chicago, United States” and see if anyone answers. Drop your call and approximate location right off the bat so they know what they’re dealing with. It’s a “novelty” of sorts when a distant EchoLink station connects. Talk to the locals - they’ll almost certainly want to talk to you. Sometimes you need to vent to someone other than the regular crowd on the local repeaters. Sometimes, you run across people who need to vent and you need to listen. I can have extended, sad conversations with people in crime-ridden areas. I can talk about COVID with people in Italy. But it’s also A BLAST and that makes me not care what some others might have to say about it. Yes - there are some folks who don’t consider it “real amateur radio” and I can see their point. “EchoLink DX-ing” as one of my ham friends calls it. It was one of the most mind-blowing things ever. You literally don’t even need a radio to do it.
#Active echolink stations license
You can talk to the world on a network of thousands of FM repeaters using EchoLink and all you need to do it is a valid amateur radio license and one of the aforementioned devices. Petersburg? Which one - Florida or Russia? Either one. I can transmit on those repeaters and others on those repeaters can reply to me. I can be in Springfield, IL and connect to a repeater in Springfield, CA. Or I can be in Schaumburg and hit any one of a small bunch of repeaters up in northern Wisconsin. I can be in the northwoods of Wisconsin and connect to my “home” repeater in Schaumburg, IL. I can be in Chicago and connect to a repeater in Sandton, South Africa - Wollongong, Australia - the Isle of Wright off the southern tip of England.
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