[App_rpt-users] Frequency Agile Remote - XCAT FUBAR

[Robert A. Poff WB3AWJ]

Well Sam, it's a long story...... 

The shorter version is I had trouble commanding the XCAT. After lots of messing about I found that if I connected to the XCAT with a Wndoze machine 
set the config, and played with it for a while, the first time I tried with app_rpt it worked. But not afterward..... 

So I made up a little set config function into app_rpt.c and called it when commanding the XCAT. 
Yep, it's a patch to gloss over something else. But it got it working. 
Nothing earth shattering. But I've had it working and on the air for a year or two now. 

Here's the set_config_xcat function: 

static int set_config_xcat(struct rpt *myrpt) 
{ 
unsigned char cmdstr[10]; 

/*set the fixed XCAT Config */ 
cmdstr[0] = cmdstr[1] = 0xfe; 
cmdstr[2] = myrpt->p.civaddr; 
cmdstr[3] = 0xe0; 
cmdstr[4] = 0xaa; /* Set config command */ 
cmdstr[5] = 0x04; /* Sub command */ 
cmdstr[6] = 0x03; /* 440 Band - use for 2m and don't send COS*/ 
cmdstr[7] = 0x00; /* No user bits set */ 
cmdstr[8] = 0xfd; 
return(civ_cmd(myrpt,cmdstr,9)); 

} 


And put a call to the new function into set_xcat : 


static int set_xcat(struct rpt *myrpt) 
{ 
int res = 0; 

/* Set XCAT Fixed config */ 
if(debug) 
printf("Setting XCAT Config\n"); 
if (!res) 
res = set_config_xcat(myrpt); 

/* select XCAT Mode/Channel 1 */ 
if(debug) 
printf("Setting XCAT to Mode 1\n"); 
if (!res) 
res = simple_command_xcat(myrpt,8,1); 

/* set Freq */ 

if(debug) 
printf("Frequency\n"); 
if(res) 
res = set_freq_xcat(myrpt, myrpt->freq); 

if(debug) 
printf("Offset\n"); 
if(!res) 
res = set_offset_xcat(myrpt, myrpt->offset); /* Offset */ 
if(debug) 
printf("CTCSS\n"); 
if (!res) 
res = set_ctcss_freq_xcat(myrpt, myrpt->txplon ? myrpt->txpl : "0.0", 
myrpt->rxplon ? myrpt->rxpl : "0.0"); /* Tx/Rx CTCSS */ 
/* set Freq */ 
if(debug) 
printf("Frequency\n"); 
if(!res) 
res = set_freq_xcat(myrpt, myrpt->freq); 


return res; 
} 


To make things simpler for users, what I've done on the other nodes here in York County is add macros in each of their rpt.conf to command the agile base. 
Example : 
201=*428260*5201 ;Select Channel 01 on 2m remote base 
202=*428260*5202 ;Select Channel 02 on 2m remote base 
203=*428260*5203 ;Select Channel 03 on 2m remote base 

And for quicker access to certain channels, some macros where function code is the KHz of the frequency. 
For example below, dialing *53520 on one of the other nodes, will connect to the agile base, and select the channel for 146.520. 

3330 = *8401*328260*428260*5242# ;Disc all & connect to 2m Base, change to 147.330 
3520 = *8401*328260*428260*5217# ;Disc all & connect to 2m Base, change to 146.520 
3550 = *8401*328260*428260*5219# ;Disc all & connect to 2m Base, change to 146.550 
3580 = *8401*328260*428260*5221# ;Disc all & connect to 2m Base, change to 146.580 
3700 = *8401*328260*428260*5243# ;Disc all & connect to 2m Base, change to 146.700 

Something that I've been playing with lately using the agile base is to have a hub node with "archivedir=" set connect to the base every morning at 7AM. 
Tune to marine channel 22 and record the daily Coast Guard Safety and Weather broadcast from Baltimore. Disconnect at 8 AM, put it into a tarball and shove that out to a convenient FTP server where I can grab it later in the day if I want to. I don't quite have everything working there yet. 


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