Echolink App on Android

Android phones provide many opportunities to expand the capability of what is already a pretty handy phone. Adding Echolink to the long list of Apps makes it easier than every to make use of the system.

The App comes from the Android market place and a pinched image is below. the layout is great as are the features it packs.

I tried a couple of QSO’s with it and managed a brief one through one of the IoM repeaters (I don’t know why I chose that one as you can obviously go anywhere in the world and choosing one that is over the water from St Bees didn’t really make much sense).

The audio wasn’t ideal according to the signal reports but adequate, I was using my house WiFi which isn’t exactly blistering so that may have had something to do with it. I doubt I can do much about that in the short term.

There isn’t much to add apart from I didn’t like the way the back button offers to close the application down rather than go back to the start of the directory tree (for example) but that is just a personal perspective. It just works and works well. Something to keep and use when I don’t have a rig handy. All I need is to develop a network of users to have QSO’s with and Echolink will become a keeper.