If anyone is interested in adding EchoLink connectivity to their Asterisk node you might be interested in my project called "thebridge". Thebridge is the conferencing software used by the majority of Echolink conferences and is also the basis of the EchoIRLP project. Like Asterisk thebridge is an open source project released under the GPL. You may download a tarball of the latest beta of thebridge from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thelinkbox/files/thebridge-1.05.tgz or you can check it out from the CVS repository on Sourceforge: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cqinet.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cqinet login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cqinet.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cqinet co -P thebridge This version supports the latest chan_rtpdir Asterisk driver (0.5) and includes the ability for Asterisk nodes to initiate connections to Echolink nodes and disconnect nodes via touch tone. Older versions of the chan_rtpdir (0.2) are no longer supported. An Asterisk/IRLP wizard could also configure thebridge to act as an gateway to the IRLP network by using Asterisk to run the necessary IRLP scripts. NB: This code is for people who are knowledgeable about Asterisk and the app_rpt project. I needed a *lot* of help from W9SH and K6JWN to get my Asterisk node running. Since I'm an Asterisk novice won't be offering any help for configuring Asterisk to use the new chan driver. 73's Skip WB6YMH