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After months of heard work Dean - M3DPE has released his first public beta of the eQSO X Linux server. Congratulations to Dean on this wonderfull job. The PMR 446 version of eQSO will now run on this beta version to give it some proper testing.

eQSO is a VoIP system but instead of it being used for phones, it is used build for and used by Ham Radio Amateurs.

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I have now completed the server application which is the first release here and still in beta, although it has been pretty thoroughly tested over the last couple of months. It runs as a daemon application. There is no GUI front-end whatsoever, but it’s pretty straightforward to use.

As we’ve been linking PMR 446 Radio’s to the internet for over a year now, all based on the principle allready being used by HAM radio amature’s for a long time, Jeff Pulver mentioned another idea for radio linking in his blog.

The trucking community’s CB channels 19 or 9 could be inter-linked via VoIP software. like eQSO. Problem here in Europe is that CB VoIP linking is not allowed by regulations, but maybe these things can be changed ?

In some countries (of which belgium is still one) CB isn’t even license free yet!

But Jeff i’m all for it, so if you need any help, just let me know.

What a first year it was for 446user. Just looked and we are currently at 1027 registered members and 4838 Forum articles.
Incredible and then to see how much fun everyone is having

Thanks again to all of you making this community work, being fun and usefell.

Also thanks for everyone that was on eQSO last thursday, allthough i didn’t have much time to talk, i still enjoyed while listening.

I even forgot to mention that i went to the local HAM radio club two weeks ago.
Was nice to see some faces of people i allready new the voice off
Makes me think Dean (his HAM radio website) and I sure need to consider doing a PMR446 User meet and greet some where next year!
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I’m still amazed by the speed of which our pmr446 radio linking project is growing. It seems like yesterday i replied to a post from Dean on a fully bannered forum. Good thing i didn’t know then where i was getting myself into then…
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