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

[Bryan D. Boyle]

jum and i wrote an nprm to establish a single freq on non interference basis, League lobbied against it, fcc shot it down

simple answer.
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> On Feb 10, 2015, at 09:37, Tim Sawyer <tim.sawyer at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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