I woul dnot expect a simplex pathc to work unless some kind of sampleing is done to see if there is any RX activity on the RF side as if you have a patch up you will be in full duplex in oder for it to work properly ( ie Phone call = Full Duplex) simplex wont work, as in you have no control of the communications since your TX is up all the time.<br clear="all">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:22, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ramesh@va3uv.com">Ramesh@va3uv.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:<br>> Hi All;<br>><br>> I've been helping another node owner to setup an autopatch on his<br>> system. I have everything working - BUT... when it comes to outbound<br>
> calls, the PTT on the local (simplex) radio is kept keyed, which<br>> prevents any local traffic from being sent over the radio to the remote<br>> callee.<br>><br>> I'm wondering whether the PTT can be dropped on a simplex node?<br>
><br></div><-- Just an update folks; I've been experimenting with the auto-patch<br>stuff on my own system (node 2182), which is connected to a repeater -<br>but since I use an external controller, my node is also running as a<br>
half-duplex node (duplex=0).<br><br>So with duplex=0, the patch does not work, there is no PTT activity on<br>the local transmitter - yet remote transmitters (i.e., nodes that are<br>connected to me) do have their TX keyed (regardless of whether they are<br>
half-duplex or full-duplex).<br><br>I changed duplex=1; no difference.<br><br>Changing duplex=2, did the trick - there was PTT activity on the local<br>transmitter and my own audio was also going out over the local<br>transmitter (plus remotes as well) - no problem there. I need to<br>
experiment a bit further to see whether I can sustain the duplex=2<br>setting with an external repeater controller, or whether I have to say<br>b'bye to the controller and connect the app_rpt box directly to the<br>repeater.<br>
<br>This also leads me to believe that a simplex node (duplex=0) will not<br>work with an auto-patch. Can someone confirm this?<br><br>Also, is anyone using duplex=2 with an external repeater controller?<br><br><br>Thx!<br>
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