Making Echolink Contacts is as Difficult as QRP

Yesterday I decided I understood echolink well enough to try to make a few contacts.

My favorite UHF repeater is an echolink node and I talked to the owner and he gave be the specific access instructions.

I’ve connected to several repeaters in the UK and a few here in the US but I did find a single ham who would respond to my call.  Of course, that’s not much different from the response to “XXXXX listening” on any normal repeater so I guess I should not be disappointed.

I would have thought however that the sound of someone popping up from Phoenix Arizona on the repeater in Glasgow Scotland would have enough notoriety that I would get a response.