[App_rpt] Interface questions

[Steve Rodgers]

Jon,

See responses below.

On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:31, jon+apprpt at unicomsystems.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First off, I must say that app_rpt looks like a very promising project
> and this style or repeater controller looks like the way of the future.
>
> I have a few questions that I couldn't quite come up with an answer for
> myself with a high degree of certainty, using the existing material
> online.
> 1). Does the 4 port radio interface card allow for 4 duplex repeater
> channels, or 2 duplex repeater channels?

4 duplex radio channels.


>
> 2). The 600 ohm line transformer as used in the analogue radio interface
> appears to be out of stock on Digikey. Does anyone have alternative
> stockists or transformer models? Or even spares they'd be willing to sell?

Last time we bought them form excesssolutions.com

>
> 3). Is app_rpt compatible with the TDM1200P or similar?

We haven't tested this but the chips used on the TDM1200p are exactly the same 
as the ones used on the TDM400.

>
> I also have a few more developmental/roadmap oriented questions, namely,
> would it be possible for an interface to be developed that used a full
> duplex sound card and a serial or other data port to interface to a radio?
> Or could an interface be developed that had the necessary functions so that
> it only needed an FXO port on the Asterisk side, seeing FXOs can be got
> from even basic devices like some winmodems?

Too many sound cards out there to support and having to deal with all of them 
is a burden we don't want to shoulder. 


>
> Note that I'm not trying to rubbish the project or its developers with
> these questions, I'm sure the current interfaces work very well, but seeing
> as we're not interfacing phones, I thought it would've been possible design
> a way to interface at an even lower price point, opening access further,
> and further benefiting app_rpt with greater uptake levels from all sorts of
> radio people around the world.

Let's just say that we are aware of this issue, and that we are working on a 
solution.


>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jon
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