Take your hand-held to work on October 5

Friday 5 October 2007 is the SARL National Take Your Hand-held to Work Day. The objective of the event is to create public awareness for amateur radio and the technology that it embraces.

Many repeaters will be linked through IRLP, the Internet Radio Linking Project, to create activity across the country. At this stage the following areas will be included: Pretoria, Johannesburg, Sandton, Kempton Park, Middelburg Mpumalanga; Nelspruit/White River, Durban, Harrismith and Cape Town.

IRLP is a reliably and inexpensively linking amateur radio system without the use of RF links, leased lines, or satellites. The IRLP uses Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) custom software and hardware. Coupled with the power of the Internet, IRLP links repeater sites or simplex stations to the world in a simple and cost effective way.

IRLP operates a worldwide network of dedicated servers and nodes, offering very stable worldwide voice communications between hundreds of towns and cities.

If you are not at work on 5 October or are retired, come on the air and share your experiences with other radio amateurs talking from work.

Source: The South African Radio League