[App_rpt-users] d-star?

[Kirk Just Kirk]

FROWN on it?  I kid you not........
I run 2 of the Hawaii MotoTRBO and 1 of the Las Vegas MotoTRBO.....
The first time I hear a interconnect from D-Star they all go dark.....


Kirk

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Stephen - K1LNX <k1lnx at k1lnx.net> wrote:

> There's a 26 pin jack on the back of the MOTOTRBO radios, so it  could
> easily be hooked to a URI (well at least on the XPR 5550, which is what I
> am running, not sure about other models. I think the 4550 has it as well).
> And I am also unsure if the audio is present in digital mode, it's not on
> the repeaters, but unsure about the mobiles. It should be though, there are
> several software packages out there that actually depend on a radio being
> connected.
>
> Native bridging? I don't think that will be easy. There's a product out
> there that will allow you to hook a radio to it and then bridge it to the
> TRBO network, but it's not cheap (about $2,600). Motorola is also very
> tight lipped about their protocol. I am working on getting accepted into
> the developer's program, but if I do get in I have to sign an NDA and I
> don't think I can make anything I potentially create open sourced because
> of it. I think there are people that have done what I describe above
> though, seems like I've heard some chatter about it. Believe me.... I would
> LOVE to see a "chan_trbo" or better yet a "chan_dmr" and be able to link
> both Hytera and MOTOTRBO together in a app_rpt box, but the nature of the
> closed IPSC protocols for both may prevent that from happening. It's not
> impossible, the protocol could easily be studied with a packet dump, but
> would probably take some serious code to make it all work.
>
> The bigger problem with all this is that the MOTOTRBO network operators
> (DMR-MARC, DCI, etc) may frown on such an installation. This is the reason
> I have not pursued this myself yet, there is a strong (and rightfully so)
> belief to keep the network all MOTOTRBO.
>
> Wishful thinking anyhow....
>
> Stephen
> K1LNX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: app_rpt-users-bounces at ohnosec.org [mailto:
> app_rpt-users-bounces at ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Carrier
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:15 PM
> To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org; adamson_alan at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] d-star?
>
> How about a similar connection to a mototrbo system.  That would be cool!
>
> K0jsc
>
> Jeffrey S. Carrier
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Adamson [adamson_alan at hotmail.com]
> Received: Sunday, 12 Aug 2012, 4:41pm
> To: 'Allstar User' [app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org]
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] d-star?
>
>
> I know this is probably old hat to most, but I think I have the world's
> most connectable allstar server :)..
>
> I've now got a B and C module of D-star (via freestar*) that I can connect
> in, my own experimental XRF reflector, I can cross link analog to digital,
> etc.  What's most amazing is HOW GOOD IT SOUNDS, when the D-Star audio
> comes into the allstar server.
>
> I just decided that I didn't want to do the rptdir thing, so I'm using
> chan_dstar and the dextra_client.. And it really sounds good.  I'm
> scratching my head as to why this was so frowned on in the beginning of
> time (not from the allstar guys, but the d-star guys).
>
> Anyway, I think if I had everything connected up, it's like 2 full duplex
> repeaters, a full duplex IRLP connection, and a d-star gateway, but 2
> simplex bases, one for d-star one for allstar.. Good think I had a whole
> bunch of 25W dummy loads :).
>
> since I got everything working, I just figured I'd share. while it wasn't
> brain dead easy, it wasn't too difficult either.
>
> Alan
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