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You are correct. The Asterisk system with the beagleboard certainly could replace the<br>existing controller you already have up there. And it would do a very good job.<br><br>However, if you feel more comfortable leaving it there, then by all means attach the Asterisk<br>system to the second (link) port on the controller. The Asterisk system will work quite well<br>in either configuration.<br><br>JIM WB6NIL<br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:00:29 -0800<br>> From: phil.n6tct@gmail.com<br>> To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Mountaintop Beagleboard/app_rpt application, your thoughts appreciated<br>> <br>> Would love the lists'' thoughts on the following.<br>> <br>> I'm with the Black Rock Amateur Radio Association. We currently have<br>> a solar/battery-powered UHF repeater with phone patch up on a<br>> mountaintop overlooking the Black Rock desert in Nevada. The system<br>> has a 5 GHz digit 802.11 link via a Ubiquiti NS-5 wifi radio to the<br>> town of Gerlach, about 14 miles south. The existing repeater<br>> controller is a Zetron Model 30 with phone patch. The phone patch<br>> connects to a VOIP analog telephony adapter, which sends SIP over the<br>> 5 GHz digital link down to an asterisk machine in Gerlach and thence<br>> to the rest of the world. An IRLP node radio in Gerlach connects to<br>> the UHF repeater via UHF just like any repeater user would.<br>> <br>> My thought for upgrading the system this spring is to replace the<br>> Zetron and VOIP box on the mountaintop with a dual-port repeater<br>> controller and a Beagleboard running asterisk. One port on the<br>> repeater controller would go the UHF radios, per usual, the other port<br>> goes to the Beagleboard (via either a USB URI or Lox board). Asterisk<br>> on the Beagleboard would talk IAX over the digital link to the<br>> Asterisk system in Gerlach. The IRLP node in Gerlach would also be<br>> connected directly to the Asterisk system for improved audio. And of<br>> course, the proposed system could also get us onto Echolink and<br>> Allstar.<br>> <br>> I realize that I could probably eliminate the dual-port repeater<br>> controller and just use app_rpt directly, but that removes some<br>> redundancy from the system: with both the dual-port controller and the<br>> beagleboard, if the beagleboard fails for some reason we still have a<br>> working repeater... and I've done enough 8-hour truck rolls from the<br>> bay area out to the Black Rock that I've come to appreciate having<br>> some amount of fault tolerance. :-)<br>> <br>> Very interested in any thoughts folks have around this. Thanks!<br>> <br>> Phil, N6TCT<br>> President, Black Rock Amateur Radio Association -- http://cq-blackrock.org<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> App_rpt-users mailing list<br>> App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>> http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users<br> </body>
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