[App_rpt-users] echolink connection issue

[George Csahanin]

Something very odd took place. History:I had a TBD node running with an 
echolink id of W2DB-L. On October 2 I actually asked echolink folks about it 
and they said tbd was not permitted. I took it down. Now that  callsign is 
blocked, and apparently (to them) an allstar/asterisk node looks like tbd. 
My node 2360 is also echolink W2DB-R and they just sent me an email of 
accusing me of running a tbd box at W2DB-R. It isn't, it's an ACID install 
of asterisk/app_rpt. Now W2DB-R doesn't seem to want to connect to anything 
except the echotest also. So not sure what this is all about, but if anybody 
else has any echolink issue you might want to see if you've been 
blocked/de-authorized because they think it is a tbd box. Too bad. Echolink 
is a nice service that allows hams around the world to keep up pc to pc. And 
nobody asks for any money, nice. But this is very, very out of the norm for 
them.

(It would also have been nice if somewhere on their web site they spelled 
out that tbd and/or asterisk isn't permitted...)

George
W2DB