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What is Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VoIP?

VoIP delivers voice communications over the internet using digital techniques.

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  1. A way to spot DX stations
  2. A remote modulation measurement
  3. Digital voice delivery over the internet ✔

Why: VoIP changes voice into digital data and carries it through internet networks. Amateur linking systems can use it to connect distant radio systems.

Huh, didn't know that: Systems such as IRLP and EchoLink use the internet to link amateur stations and repeaters.

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The voice crossed the internet because it had great packet manners.
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Answer: Digital voice delivery over the internet. VoIP changes voice into digital data and carries it through internet networks. Amateur linking systems can use it to connect distant radio systems.

  1. NCVEC 2026-2030 Technician Question Pool www.ncvec.org/downloads/2026-2030%20Technician%20Pool%20and%20Syllabus%20Public%20Release%20Feb%2019%202026.pdf
    A method of delivering voice communications over the internet using digital techniques
    Checked 2026-10-09.

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