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Well... I feel both victorious, and somewhat like a idiot, all at the same time.
I was listening to a "net" on my scanner, and I decided to try to get in contact with them. Basically there is a moderator, and people call in with their callsigns over the radio, and just make a brief comment, and the moderator notes their callsign and makes a couple more brief comments. In any case, this "net" consisted of many repeaters linked up, that is, radio repeaters, linked via VOIP, it's called IRLP in ham radio parlance. I accessed the IRLP part via my Echolink program. Anyhow, first the idiot part. You can see all the other people's callsigns in a list, when Echolink is all talking to its server. I was confused as to where I click to access the net, and ended up talking mistakenly to an individual person in BC, who had previously been talking on the net. He told me how I was REALLY supposed to contact the net, and after a bit of headscratching, I made it through and got on the air and briefly said my hellos. That was the victorious part. I think normally people, when they get into ham radio, have some kind of mentor, be it when they join a club and talk in RL with people with more experience, or have some relative or someone who gets them interested. Anyhow I get home too late to join any club, ie the meetings are over by the time I get home from work. So I am not doing too bad for being mentor-less. I suppose.
I was listening to a "net" on my scanner, and I decided to try to get in contact with them. Basically there is a moderator, and people call in with their callsigns over the radio, and just make a brief comment, and the moderator notes their callsign and makes a couple more brief comments. In any case, this "net" consisted of many repeaters linked up, that is, radio repeaters, linked via VOIP, it's called IRLP in ham radio parlance. I accessed the IRLP part via my Echolink program. Anyhow, first the idiot part. You can see all the other people's callsigns in a list, when Echolink is all talking to its server. I was confused as to where I click to access the net, and ended up talking mistakenly to an individual person in BC, who had previously been talking on the net. He told me how I was REALLY supposed to contact the net, and after a bit of headscratching, I made it through and got on the air and briefly said my hellos. That was the victorious part. I think normally people, when they get into ham radio, have some kind of mentor, be it when they join a club and talk in RL with people with more experience, or have some relative or someone who gets them interested. Anyhow I get home too late to join any club, ie the meetings are over by the time I get home from work. So I am not doing too bad for being mentor-less. I suppose.