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Not at the moment as the firmware currently stands. However, that's not a bad idea.<br>It could simply act as a totally "dumb" controller and just repeat the input back to<br>the output.<br><br>JIM<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable<br>From: conny@tangandjonsson.com<br>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:46:17 -0700<br>CC: ke6pcv@cal-net.org; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>To: telesistant@hotmail.com<br><br>
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<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML">If you use RTCM as "generic" radio interface on the hill and a linux box at a remote location connected over an IP connection and you loose the connection can the RTCM failover to be a minimal repeater controller on the hill?<div><br></div><div>73 de N5HC</div><div>/Conny</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Jim Duuuude wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><div dir="ltr">Yeah, that's the general idea. The location of the Linux server running app_rpt/Asterisk can be<br>more or less anywhere within Internet connectivity of all of the receiver and/or transmitter sites.<br>Of course, "Internet" can mean either some sort of public Internet connection, or a privately-provided<br>Internet connection (low-cost microwave link(s), etc).<br><br>The only limitation is that an RTCM/Voter module *must* be located on the same LAN as the Linux<br>server, to at least provide a GPS-based timing reference. A system could be set up with a server<br>located in some sort of datacenter "on the ground", and all the radios could have an RTCM "on the<br>hill" with them, and as long as there is Internet connectivity of some sort between each of them<br>and the server, the system will work nicely. That is providing that there is an RTCM located at<br>the server location also (whether or not that particular RTCM has radio hardware connected to it<br>or not).<br><br>One minimal Linux server can easily support 1 or 2 dozen RTCM's (on 1 or 2 allstar nodes),<br>and a larger server could easily support MANY dozens of them on dozens of allstar nodes.<br>Of course, you REALLY dont want to put too many of them on a single server, being a potential<br>single point of failure. For pretty much any practical purpose, the reasonable limitation is<br>the point of failure/redundancy issue, not technical limitations.<br><br>I'm not sure if you were clear on this, so I thought I would mention that the RTCM is not just<br>usable as a GPS-timing-based Multi-Receiver Voting system and/or a Simulcast Transmitter system.<br>It can also be used as a "generic" radio interface for a conventional (non-GPS-based) either simplex<br>or full duplex (repeater) radio. The advantage of doing this would be to not have the Linux<br>host "on the hill" with the radio (as mentioned above). In addition, the RTCM allows for<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>portable/mobile operation with a mobile/portable Internet connection in both the GPS-based<br>and non-GPS-based environments.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>JIM WB6NIL<br><br><br><div><div id="ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ke6pcv@cal-net.org">ke6pcv@cal-net.org</a><br>To:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br>Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0800<br>Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable<br><br><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I have been looking at the Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) and it really looks like a GREAT product and addition to the already cool Allstar hardware.</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Among all the other cool features of the RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) like Transmitter Simulcasting and Receiver Voting, if</font></span><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>I understand the documentation</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">correctly you can use this very small Radio Thin Client Module at a remote radio site to set up an Allstar repeater node if the site has internet connection without a COMPUTER at the site?</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Then you can point the node on the hilltop back to a server on the ground somewhere that is easy to get too? </font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">How many total sites can you use Radio Thin Client Modules on and point back to a single server on the ground? </font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">If this is the case, All I can say is WOW, how cool!</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">73</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Marshall</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><br><blockquote dir="ltr" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" class="ecxOutlookMessageHeader" align="left" lang="en-us"><hr tabindex="-1"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org]<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></b>Mark Guibord<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:03 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>[App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable<br></font><br></div><div></div><div class="ecxWordSection1"><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11pt; background-position: 0% 0%;">Allstar RTCM Radio Thin-Client Module, an Open-Source VOIP-Based Voting Multi-Receiver and Simulcast Transmit System is now available for purchase. </span></pre><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11pt; background-position: 0% 0%;"> </span></pre><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11pt; background-position: 0% 0%;">F</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">or more information visit </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://micro-node.com/thin-m1.html" target="_blank">http://micro-node.com/thin-m1.html</a> </span></pre><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></pre><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Regards,</span></pre><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Mark Guibord</span></pre><pre style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Micro-Node International</span></pre><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p></div></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users" target="_blank">http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users</a></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>App_rpt-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br><a href="http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users" target="_blank">http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div> </div></body>
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