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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Homebrew Echolink Interface in two days...








It took me one day to assemble the EchoLink interface circuit into the VeroBoard and another day to fully make the interface for my ICOM IC-2100 rig to the RJ45 plugs which controls the MIC and PTT plus another male phone jack to the rig's External Speaker socket.

Many thanks to all hams friends who help in giving ideas and suggestion as to the best settings to use especially 9W2SSJ, 9W2LW, 9W2YCC, 9W2PAT and many more ham's!

This intreface can be used for PSK31 to link PC to rig and chat over the air! This is what a senior ham member use to tell me... "This is the Age of Radio and Computers"!

Those who want to try to homebrew your own can do so by going to http://www.qsl.net/9w2lw/echo.htm for building details and there is a Complete Setup guide for EchoLink SysOps configuration you can use to optimize your EchoLink Gateway. But you need to register your self with http://www.echolink.org/ and send in your Ham Radio License copy to get your activation code for the EchoLink software to work.

Good Luck!

73

Yours,

Rodney
9W2YJ

posted by Rodney Yeo @ rodyeo.dyndns.org at 7:46 PM

9 Comments:

  • A small contribution from 9M8SL on a better Echolink interface circuit from a Thailand website.

    http://www2.se-ed.net/thamnong/

    Thanks again... I believe many other station can learn to homebrew this interface soon.

    73

    Happy HomeBrewing...

    Yours,

    Rodney
    9W2YJ

    By Blogger Rodney Yeo @ rodyeo.dyndns.org, at 12:26 AM  

  • 9W2YJ,

    Where to get the transformer for T1 and T2.. It is very hard to obtain that value of Transformer in the electronic shop.... Have to scrap from the modem! really?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:51 AM  

  • Yes... It is indeed very hard to find those isolation transformer.

    I salvage it from an old AM Radio and it is rated 1:1 at 120ohms at both sides.

    You can either used Aztech Internal PCI Modem Card Isolation transformer which uses 1:1 at 145ohms.

    Or you can use Motorolla Modem Isolation transformer with is at 75:600ohms as mention by 9W2SSJ.

    Keep up the ham spirit and glad to share any infomation with anyone.

    73

    Rodney
    9W2YJ

    By Blogger Rodney Yeo @ rodyeo.dyndns.org, at 10:47 AM  

  • Here is a free website which can help you configure any brand of your router to work with EchoLink...

    http://www.portforward.com/

    73

    Rodney
    9W2YJ

    By Blogger Rodney Yeo @ rodyeo.dyndns.org, at 12:57 PM  

  • For those Wireless Streamyx users, here is the website of the Wireless Access Point installed in your home by TMnet. It is the 2.4GHz version installed in the subscriber end.

    http://www.canopywireless.com/

    By Blogger Rodney Yeo @ rodyeo.dyndns.org, at 10:37 AM  

  • Manual for the Wireless Streamyx WAP can be obtain here...

    http://motorola.canopywireless.com/cgiss/support_library.php

    http://motorola.canopywireless.com/pub_files/APManualIss5.pdf

    By Blogger Rodney Yeo @ rodyeo.dyndns.org, at 10:47 AM  

  • http://www.w5bbr.com/soundbd.html
    http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/interface.html

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:59 PM  

  • http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/qsl-echolink.htm

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:05 PM  

  • http://www.nullmodem.com/

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:39 PM  

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