Designed by Jonathan Taylor, a radio amateur with callsign K1RFD, Echolink, a computer program that runs under Microsoft Windows allows steadfast worldwide connections to be made between radio amateurs using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology on the internet for at least a part of the path between them, greatly enhancing Amateur Radio's communications capabilities. Though its similar to other VOIP tools like Skype it has the additional ability to page link to an amateur radio station's transceive