[App_rpt-users] Mountaintop Beagleboard/app_rpt application, your thoughts appreciated

[Jim Duuuude]

You are correct. The Asterisk system with the beagleboard certainly could replace the
existing controller you already have up there. And it would do a very good job.

However, if you feel more comfortable leaving it there, then by all means attach the Asterisk
system to the second (link) port on the controller. The Asterisk system will work quite well
in either configuration.

JIM WB6NIL


> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:00:29 -0800
> From: phil.n6tct at gmail.com
> To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Mountaintop Beagleboard/app_rpt application,	your thoughts appreciated
> 
> Would love the lists'' thoughts on the following.
> 
> I'm with the Black Rock Amateur Radio Association.  We currently have
> a solar/battery-powered UHF repeater with phone patch up on a
> mountaintop overlooking the Black Rock desert in Nevada.  The system
> has a 5 GHz digit 802.11 link via a Ubiquiti NS-5 wifi radio to the
> town of Gerlach, about 14 miles south.  The existing repeater
> controller is a Zetron Model 30 with phone patch.  The phone patch
> connects to a VOIP analog telephony adapter, which sends SIP over the
> 5 GHz digital link down to an asterisk machine in Gerlach and thence
> to the rest of the world.  An IRLP node radio in Gerlach connects to
> the UHF repeater via UHF just like any repeater user would.
> 
> My thought for upgrading the system this spring is to replace the
> Zetron and VOIP box on the mountaintop with a dual-port repeater
> controller and a Beagleboard running asterisk.  One port on the
> repeater controller would go the UHF radios, per usual, the other port
> goes to the Beagleboard (via either a USB URI or Lox board).  Asterisk
> on the Beagleboard would talk IAX over the digital link to the
> Asterisk system in Gerlach.  The IRLP node in Gerlach would also be
> connected directly to the Asterisk system for improved audio.  And of
> course, the proposed system could also get us onto Echolink and
> Allstar.
> 
> I realize that I could probably eliminate the dual-port repeater
> controller and just use app_rpt directly, but that removes some
> redundancy from the system: with both the dual-port controller and the
> beagleboard, if the beagleboard fails for some reason we still have a
> working repeater... and I've done enough 8-hour truck rolls from the
> bay area out to the Black Rock that I've come to appreciate having
> some amount of fault tolerance.  :-)
> 
> Very interested in any thoughts folks have around this.  Thanks!
> 
> Phil, N6TCT
> President, Black Rock Amateur Radio Association -- http://cq-blackrock.org
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