While I’m not an iPhone owner (until it comes to Verizon) nor an Echolink regular, I still think it’s pretty neat that someone has come out with an app for Echolink on the iPhone.
While I don’t want this to end up in a urinating contest with the RF-purists (although cell phone signals are RF…), it would be cool for those who travel frequently away from their home repeaters. Imagine sitting in a hotel in the evening while on a business trip and being able to check in to your local net or just to ragchew via the iPhone. This especially overcomes the frequent problem with the Echolink PC/Mac client requirement that certain ports need to be opened up on your router — which obviously you don’t have access to on the hotel LAN.
Echolink for iPhone joins iBCNU in the App Store with only a small handful of other ham radio-related apps.
Side note: Occasionally I will log in to Echolink. My user node number is 414323.
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