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Re: skype
« Reply #15 on: 06 March 2010, 00:20:03 »
oh and as a ham we still use a lot of the short codes, QSL, QRZ, QSY and some rather sexist stuff that even female hams seem ok with. YL for a girl/girl you are dating, thats ok, but if you marry her she becomes XYL
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Re: skype
« Reply #16 on: 06 March 2010, 09:04:33 »
I always thought SOS stood for "save our souls".
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Re: skype
« Reply #17 on: 06 March 2010, 14:49:58 »
a short history of SOS here http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/060199tip6.htm

it's just a sequence that's easy to recognise
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« Reply #18 on: 07 March 2010, 04:11:39 »
Very interesting.  I had no idea (although no doubt rad could have put me straight)!
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Re: skype
« Reply #19 on: 07 March 2010, 11:56:14 »
I hate morse ! (and not the program with J Thaw) but have had to use it so had to understand it
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Re: skype
« Reply #20 on: 07 March 2010, 16:03:36 »
I learned morse because it was a requirement to get a class A licence, not that I have one, I can transmit on HF as a Class B licence now as the rules changed. Not a big fan although it can get through when other transmission types can't
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Re: skype
« Reply #21 on: 13 May 2010, 20:43:52 »
I can download Skype as a app.

Not sure how it works then....
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« Reply #22 on: 13 May 2010, 20:58:11 »
I saw Skype a while back but I can't say I was very impressed with it, as it kept breaking up.  It may have improved since I last saw it and it would be interesting to hear the views of any members who use it or have used it?
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Re: skype
« Reply #23 on: 13 May 2010, 21:24:59 »
Jackie has been using it to chat to her Daughter in Aus and it's worked fine, with only the occasional breakup
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Re: skype
« Reply #24 on: 13 May 2010, 21:44:59 »
Is there a cost involved when making a call?

My brother doesn't have a computer so I use a program called Jajah to phone him directly to his phone.  I click Call on my computer and my phone rings and a voice tells me that they are connecting me, I then get connected.  For an hour, the call costs me a little over $3.00 which isn't bad for a call to Inverness
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Re: skype
« Reply #25 on: 22 May 2010, 01:17:05 »
no cost pc to pc, but there is a cost pc to phone
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Re: skype
« Reply #26 on: 23 May 2010, 17:19:16 »
We use VoipStunt which sounds similar to Jajah. You top up 10 euros and get 120 free days to certain countries including USA mobile phones and it does phone to phone. You can get your pc to call your phone, then when you pick it up it calls the other person and is such a clear line. Once you have used up your free days you start running down the credit at a rate of 1 Euro cent a minute I think.
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Re: skype
« Reply #27 on: 23 May 2010, 23:00:59 »
I get calls to places like the USA for 2p a minute on a normal phone without messing around
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