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[In Eeyore voice] Oh bother....<br><br>I guess I'm going to have to split the configuration menu into sub-menus, since the<br>current one is 'buldging' (at least on an 80x25 size screen, which is what its<br>optimized for).<br><br>[In Eeyore voice] Oh bother.... <br><br>:-)<br><br>JIM WB6NIL<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: michaelcarey@internode.on.net<br>To: ke6pcv@cal-net.org; telesistant@hotmail.com; conny@tangandjonsson.com<br>CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable<br>Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:05:37 +1030<br><br>I agree! <div><br></div><div>I was going to ask exactly the same question. Maybe this loss-of-connectivity-failover function could be enhanced to include a simple timed morse ID and dedicated repeater tail tone so you know immediately that something is wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael.</div><div>VK5ZEA<br><br><blockquote><br>----- Original Message -----<br><div style="width: 100%; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><div style="font-weight: bold;">From:</div> "Marshall Oldham" <ke6pcv@cal-net.org></div><br><div style="font-weight: bold;">To:</div>"Jim Duuuude" <telesistant@hotmail.com>, <conny@tangandjonsson.com><br><div style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</div>"app_rpt mailing list" <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org><br><div style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</div>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:42:57 -0800<br><div style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable<br><br><br><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="ecx245224121-22122011">This would be a good function or to add in the
future firmware! </span></font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Jim Duuuude
[mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 22, 2011
12:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> conny@tangandjonsson.com<br><b>Cc:</b> Marshall Oldham;
app_rpt mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio
Thin Client Module) is nowavailable<br></font><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">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>
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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>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?
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<div>73 de N5HC</div>
<div>/Conny</div>
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<div>On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Jim Duuuude wrote:</div>
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<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>
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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>
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<span class="ecx104503518-21122011"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<hr><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>
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<pre style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;">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-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;"> </span></pre>
<pre style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;">F</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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>
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