Current EchoLink Station Shortcuts

Yes, there is a method to my madness on these shortcuts.  All station shortcuts consist of three DTMFs.  Shortcuts for repeater and simplex links always start with a 1,2, or a 3 depending on the targeted time zones.  Station short cuts that begin with "1" are hours ahead of us, think European, African, and Middle East stations.  Station short cuts starting with "3" are hours behind us or more correctly a day ahead of us, think stations in Asia, Australia, and the Oceanic states of the Pacific.

Station short cuts starting with a "2" are North American stations (plus a few Hawaiian stations), followed by the target node's FCC area number (non-US stations will use an alpha character instead,) followed by a one digit sequence number.  Conference servers will always start with an A, followed by a one digit sequence number. 

The short cuts are listed by their respective local time vs. UTC, then FCC group, you'll get the idea.  

Remember the local time in the area you may want to call.  I recommend working the stations at the top of the list in the morning and working the stations at the bottom late at night.  Have fun and please let me know if you experience any rude or unseemly behavior on any of these shortcut stations in which case I'll take remove the shortcut and block access to the node in question.  We're doing this for fun so there's no need to put up with Lids on our repeater. 

Bold face type in the table below means "most recently updated." 

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*Conference Servers are powerful internet hubs which can handle many connections at a given time.  In the world of IRLP they are called "Reflectors" and function in a similar way.  For those who are new to VoIP radio linking think of them as being similar to HF calling frequencies and therefore places to start QSO-s.  Please keep in mind some hams view a Conference Server as a type of calling or special interest channel so if you find yourself in an extended QSO with only one other station with a subject that may not be of interest to others you may want to QSY by disconnecting the conference server and re-connecting directly to the other party's individual node.  If they don't know their node number then they can connect to you with node number 3176.  

Conference servers have many links and repeaters connected so it is especially important that you pause three seconds before keying up and pause a second before speaking after you do.  Again with many repeaters connected don't talk for more than 60 seconds at a time.  If three or more are in QSO please remember to pass the QSO off to another specific operator or NET control to avoid doubling just as you would on a local one.  If you no longer wish to participate please remember to disconnect after the next courtesy beep.