[App_rpt-users] wtf? a ranger node? (was strange courtesy tone)

[Tim Sawyer]

You pretty much have it right. There are a couple of ranger nodes on the nodes list. I think there was some effort to create a national Ranger simplex channel. LiTZ on that channel would trigger an alarm to notify those monitoring of an emergency. I don’t know what happened to the project.

> On Feb 9, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2/9/15, 1:39 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
>> I've looked at the logs and run it in debug too.  No obvious errors (or any
>> for that matter).
>> 
>> Guess I could run it under GDB next....
> 
> I read the source to app_rpt.c and found that nodes starting with a 9 are
> called a ranger node. No idea what this is.  Can anyone elaborate?
> 
>> #define ISRANGER(name) (name[0] == '9')
> 
>> /* if has a RANGER node connected to it, use special telemetry for RANGER mode */
>>                if (haslink)
>>                {
>>                        res = telem_lookup(myrpt,mychannel, myrpt->name, "ranger");
>>                        if(res)
>>                                ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "telem_lookup:ranger failed on %s\n", mychannel->name);
>>                }
> 
> looks like a ranger node is suppose to listen for a LiTZ and then connect to
> another node.  When others are using that other node as along as the ranger
> node is connected to it it will send the "ranger" CT which is what I'm hearing.
> 
>> {"ranger","|t(1800,0,60,3072)(0,0,50,0)(1800,0,60,3072)(0,0,50,0)(1800,0,60,3072)(0,0,50,0)(1800,0,60,3072)(0,0,50,0)(1800,0,60,3072)(0,0,50,0)(1800,0,60,3072)(0,0,150,0)"}
> 
> Good news is my 1800 hz decode from audacity was correct!
> 
> So I'm guessing this is meant to be some kinda half duplex node that links in
> for emergency use.  Anyone have any idea on this?  I can't find anything on
> the docs site about ranger nodes.
> 
> If I make the node in the 1902 the problem goes away, or I could define the
> "ranger" CT to be nothing.
> 
> 73's
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