Some of these you can try in the next five minutes, with no licence and nothing installed. Others put you on the air worldwide and want proof of your licence first. Here is what each one actually asks of you.
Receive only. You cannot transmit through any of these, which is exactly why anyone can use them.
Tune a real receiver in the Netherlands from your browser and hear HF as it sounds there right now. Several people listen on different frequencies at once.
Hundreds of public receivers around the world, each openable in a browser. Pick one near a station you want to hear.
Listen to DMR talkgroups live in a browser as people key up. Useful for hearing what a talkgroup is actually like before you join it.
Each of these wants proof of your licence before your first transmission. That step takes time, so start it before the net you want to join, not during it.
Talk through a repeater somewhere else in the world, from a computer, a phone, or by sending DTMF from your own radio through a local node.
Digital voice rooms over the internet with no radio at all. Good for hearing D-STAR, Fusion and DMR without buying a set for each.
Links whole repeaters and hotspots to each other over the internet. You normally reach it through a radio rather than an app.
Whichever you pick, operate within your licence conditions — see the VU band plan.
Every node callsign named in this site's repeater directory or net schedule. Node numbers are not listed — see below for why.
Kolkata, West Bengal
145.675 MHz
Nets here: 22:30 Kolkata VHF Net
Listed in our directory and schedule
Location not in our directory
Listed in our net schedule
Pune, Maharashtra
144.800 MHz
Nets here: 08:15 VU2EN Memorial Net, 21:30 VU2EN Memorial Net
Listed in our directory and schedule
New Delhi
145.670 MHz
Nets here: 21:00 Delhi VHF Net (Saturdays)
Listed in our directory and schedule
Thrissur, Kerala
144.825 MHz
Nets here: 08:00 VU2IAC Morning Net, 22:00 VU2IAC Thrissur Repeater Net
Listed in our directory and schedule
Bengaluru, Karnataka
145.800 MHz
Nets here: 06:30 Kokhroko Net, 17:00 Evening Net, 21:00 Silicon City Net
Listed in our directory and schedule
Hyderabad, Telangana
145.600 MHz
Nets here: 07:45 Hyderabad Morning Net
Listed in our directory and schedule
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
145.550 MHz
Nets here: 21:15 Vandu Net
Listed in our directory and schedule
Location not in our directory
Listed in our directory and schedule
Location not in our directory
Listed in our directory and schedule
Why there are no node numbers here
EchoLink's directory needs a validated account, so there is no public source this site can read. A node number is the thing you key into a radio, so a guessed one would send you to whatever station happens to hold it. Look the number up in the EchoLink app or at echolink.org, searching for the callsign above.
The same goes for whether a node is on the air right now. This page cannot know, so it does not say.
9999 — *ECHOTEST*. The network's own test server. Connect, speak, and it plays your audio back so you can hear how you sound before joining a net. It is the one number worth memorising, and the only one on this page, because it is published and the same for everyone.
Open a WebSDR and listen to 40m in the evening. Nothing to install, nothing to break. Then see the licence steps.
EchoLink on a phone gets you into nets on other continents through a local node. Get validated first — that is the slow part.
Peanut lets you hear D-STAR, Fusion and DMR rooms without buying a radio for each one — a cheaper way to find out which you like.