[App_rpt-users] Setting Up a Remote Base w/RTCM

[Jesse Lloyd]

Check your email R. Wayne. That should do it. You don't need to use a 386,
I've successfully got the software to run on a Dual Core, running windows
98 on a second partition, which boots directly to DOS on our work
Toughbooks.

You can also get a copy of VMworks or other virtual machine and run it in
that, I've also done that and it works well. That's what I do on my i7
laptop w/ win7. I use a USB to Serial converter from FTDI
http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/US232R-100-BULK/768-1074-ND/2441363.
FTDI makes one of the best USB to Serial Converts on the market.


Cheers,
Jesse


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:55 PM, R. Wayne <allstar at controlservers.net>
wrote:

>   That explains it very well. But the MSF isn’t the problem yet, I don’
> think. Isn’t it the remote base? Once we connect the RTCM to the MSF and it
> controls the MSF and does the CWIDs won’t this issue disappear?
>
>  *From:* KD8USF <kd8usf at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 8:00 PM
> *To:* app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> *Subject:* Re: [App_rpt-users] Setting Up a Remote Base w/RTCM
>
>  The reason why you are seeing the pulse go over the link is because when
> the link radio unkeys it hears the repeater tail and therefore keys up the
> link again. I also run an MSF5000, it does the CWID with no PL which keeps
> the ID off the link unless someone kerchunks the repeater while it's
> ID'ing. One way to stop the pulsing would be to set no tail on the
> repeater, but if you're like me I have at least a 2 sec tail because I
> don't want the repeater going up and down all the time like a simplex
> radio, and with no tail you would not hear the repeater come back to you
> when you keyed it up.
> Andrew.
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* R. Wayne <allstar at controlservers.net>
> *To:* app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 1:36 PM
> *Subject:* [App_rpt-users] Setting Up a Remote Base w/RTCM
>
>   Our remote base isn’t cutting it. It is half-duplex using a Vertex
> VX-4200. We are told that the audio has no bottom, it is sending CWID that
> it hears from the repeater (I knew why) and is sending pulses. I didn’t set
> the hardware or software up, so as I ask please know that I am at the top
> of a mountain and the remote base at the bottom where we have internet.
> Here’s what we are dealing with. Our intent is to attach the RTCM at the
> repeater site once we have internet up there. Until then...
>
> The DB-15 on the back of the Vertex VX-4200 is *almost* capable of being
> used as a repeater controller output.
>
> Pin 1 = TX Audio
> Pin 2 = RX Audio
> Pin 6 = External PTT
> Pin 9 = COR (see notes)
> Pin 15 = GRND
>
> COR is achieved by creating voltage divider using other pins. Only then
> will one get COR but not COS. PL will only make it to the speaker on the
> front panel and rear jack. PL IS NOT on pin 2. Pin 2 is squelched but when
> it receives the repeater’s built-in controller (a Motorola MSF-5000). Every
> time our CWID goes off our remote base sends it to everyone.
>
> Here are the problems. First, we’re told that we are committing link abuse
> by “jumping” or key clicking every time someone else transmits on a node
> our node replies. I don’t know what I am talking bout at this point. [image:
> Smile]:-)
>
> Next I am told that our audio has no bottom end. No bass. The pin that
> we’re able to pull from is the only source that we’re aware of and is the
> pin used by Vertex to send audio to their VRS (mobile repeater).
>
> http://www.shercoares.org/doc_files/manuals/vx4200_sm.pdf
>
> I’ve been told to turn PL off and let the repeater pass through the tone.
> But please remember that pin 2 has no PL on it. Only the front panel
> speaker and rear speaker jack audio are muted by PL.
>
> The easiest solution may be a GM300 but I cannot get the darn software on
> our old 386 laptop. The floppy decided to only read those created by
> itself. We’re puckered up on this one.
>
> Suggestions are appeciated.
>
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