[App_rpt] New USB Fob attempt...

[Steven Palm]

On May 24, 2008, at 12:52 PM, David Powell-Williams wrote:
> This is to let you know that you are not alone with the audio issue.

  Well, I guess that is encouraging. :)  I'd rather be alone and be  
the only one with a negative experience in this case, but I guess if  
it helps track down and solve some edge case problems then it's good.

  Well, what it is doing almost without fail now is producing just a  
carrier on transmit although there is a high-pitched tone in there but  
it's not a clean tone.

  I put the system in parrot mode and it will key up after I drop  
carrier, but I get the same sort of sound from that as I do from  
sending *81 for example, or even a 'radio key' command on the tty9  
asterisk command line.

  While it was in parrot mode, though, I copied the temporary parrot  
file before it got deleted and moved it over to my Mac and it  
contained my audio clear as a bell.

  ...So, clearly RX is working well, and PTT control is fine, but for  
some reason the system cannot generate any real audio, only this  
tone.  Again, having moved the USB FOB to another computer and sending  
audio out to it and then grounding PTT and having the radio transmit  
it just fine tells me that the USB FOB is working as it should, so it  
must be something in the system that can't feed good audio data to the  
USB FOB on the outbound leg.

  I tried a fresh install inside VMWare on my Mac laptop just for  
kicks and found the same behavior as I am seeing on the other machine.

  Not sure where to debug from here, I've never played with asterisk  
before so I know very little about how the pieces fit together.

  Steve