[App_rpt-users] Using an external Controller

[Jeff Carrier]

Me too.  I have one site with an RTCM and the other 3 are PC's.  Granted 2
of the 3 sites with PC's are at local ham's houses and the 3rd is running
an industrial pc up at the repeater site.  I've actually had more problems
with my RC-210 than I have with any of the node pc's.

K0JSC


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM, David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:

>
>
> I agree that running full-blown PC's remotely isn't an issue these
> days--just make certain to use high-quality hardware (particularly the
> power supply). I've also been running systems in hard to reach spots for
> years with very minimal headaches (knock on wood!).
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Robert A. Poff WB3AWJ wrote:
>
> > I have to admit, when I first started looking at AllStar, the idea o f a
> computer running the re peater seemed a bit risky.
> > Several decades of keeping things running on hilltops made me leery .
> >
> > But now with my first node appro aching it's third (or is it fourth?)
> anniversary , I've realigned my stance.
> >
> > In that time the only ti mes that I've ha d to make a n "emergency" run
> to th at si te is :
> > 1. The repeater went dead in the middle of the day. When I go t to the
> site, I found that someone had
> > turned the breaker off in the electrical distribution p anel.
> > 2. Some dummy (me) wasn't paying at tention to which re mote console
> session he was on when he typed "poweroff <enter>".
> >
> > I have had some problems though wi th one of the repeaters ( t wo
> seperate no des operating as a s plit site 10m repeate r), b ut that has
> turned out to be a hardware p roblem that I didn't catch before putting
> that computer into service.
> >
> > Now I do ha ve each bo x exec ute a c ontrolled shutdown and re boot
> once a week in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
> > And while I haven't been extravagant on the computer hardware, I haven't
> cut things to the bone .
> > E ach of my boxes are at least a 3. 0 Ghz P4 with a gig or two of
> memory. (each bought on Ebay for about $7 5)
> >
> > They sit th ere hour after hour, run ning the repeater, ID scri pts,
> weather al ert and observation scripts, on sche dule jumping between WAN
> -RS , Alaska Morning Net, and the Insomni ac net. R unning AR Newslin e
> Monday and Friday nights . And running other housekeeping scripts (rsync
> the custom nodename list, rs ync new versions of my scripts, and so on).
> Oh, and s ervicing a handful Asterisk extens i ons wi th attending IAX
> trunks bet ween the repeaters.
> >
> > On the other hand, at work I have a fa irly expensive dedicated
> broadcast remote control (like a repeater "controller") on our TV
> translator about fif ty miles away , on top of a mountain w ith a nasty
> access road, that drives me NUTS!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > WB3AWJ
> > Robert A. Poff
> > Loganville, PA.
> > "Lieutenant, target the offending power boat and launch photon torpedoes"
> >
>
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