[App_rpt] 2199 appears to be operational

[Skip WB6YMH]

> Tony,
> 
> I connected to it from node 2010 and it has excellent sounding audio! It
> was very busy when I connected so I didn't stay connected very long.
> 
> If someone is talking on the Echolink side does our audio mix with
> theirs or are we locked out? I'm not sure of thelinkbox is a mixing or
> one-at-a-time echolink reflector. In app_rpt everything is mixing, but
> typically echolink is one-at-a-time.

I'll answer for Tony since he's asleep.  Yes thelinkbox mixes active 
audio sources.  It treats all VoIP endpoints as separate streams, mixes 
the active audio and then sends the audio out.  If the output is a radio 
port then that's it.  If the output is another VoIP stream then the audio 
is encoded using the appropriate codec (currently GSM, ADPCM or uLaw) 
before being sent back out.   

Thelinkbox also has packet layer conferencing since it's an extension to 
thebridge.  Thebridge and the linkbox can repack GSM data between 
Asterisk, EchoLink and IRLP connections so there's no need to decode and 
then re-encode.  Clearly that capability doesn't provide connectivity 
between GSM Asterisk and ADPCM IRLP.  

Since Tony is currently using thebridge not thelinkbox there's no mixing 
at the moment.  

73's Skip WB6YMH