[App_rpt-users] Remote Base Questions

[Tim Sawyer]

Remote bases do not transmit when in command mode (*4).
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Tim
:wq

On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Brett Friermood wrote:

>> Yes, a remote base node  can connect to any other node.  You must do it from the other node, however.
> 
>    Ok, that makes sense. Kinda what I was thinking.
> 
>> Why would you want to write any script for connecting, when you can set up the node as a remote base, and put the standard control information on that node?
>> When you want to control the node, you do it with the "*4" command from the connected node.  I use my repeater and remote base that way all the time.
>> 
> 
> I never said anything about writing a script for connecting. I said I
> was going write my own scripts for controlling, as in changing
> channels, what side of the radio the data band is set to, telling me
> what channels the radio is currently set to, setting the VFO, etc...
> The remote base node can only do that for certain radios as listed, of
> which the V71 is not one. Plus it wouldn't give me as much control as
> I want. The scripts are the easy part.
> 
> Even using the command mode, doesn't that cause the base to transmit
> when you don't necessarily want it to? Maybe I'm being picky here, but
> if I'm changing a channel I certainly don't want that radio to be
> transmitting.
> 
> Thanks for pointing out *4, though. I did a little research on it and
> learned a little more.
> 
> Brett
> KQ9N
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