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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Just</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">in case</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> someone else decides to try this…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">reference this…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"><A HREF="http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/maxtrac/gm300-info.html">http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/maxtrac/gm300-info.html</A></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a) on the GM300, leave JU551 set to the default (de-emphasized not FLAT) position B</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">b) also make sure that JU701 is set to the default position A or else you won't encode PL on TX</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Beyond that, I used beagle tune to set the levels, and the portal to give me a basic node setup.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I did play a little with the wait-times in rpt.conf… settled with these for a simplex node.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">[wait-times] </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">telemwait=1200</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">idwait=500</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">unkeywait=300</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">calltermwait=1500</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I did use cables from Marshall and he includes an rj45 with the wire to jumper so that with no mic connected it's onhook so that PL functions correctly.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I was lucky enough to have 2 real live GM300 D04 radios (1-10watt versions with 439-450 coverage), I plugged in 446.000 with a pl on tx/rx and didn't have to touch much else</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">… RX</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">sensitivity</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> was -122db on radio and -120 on the other… good enough for what I'm looking for - personal simplex nodes.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">if you get cables from Marshall make sure you follow his instructions and pin 8 on the back of the radio needs to be set to show both CARRIER *AND* PL.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The Beagle.conf looks like the following</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">[YOURNODENUMBER]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">carrierfrom=hwinvert</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ctcssfrom=no</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">invertptt=0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">duplex=0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">rxondelay=0</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">That's it… if doing a simplex node, and using the portal to generate your starting setup, make sure you select all the right things for the node</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">radio interface - beagle, then the other items below it, specifically the duplex=</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hope this helps for the next person… Note, I tried JU551 on the beagle and in FLAT mode it just sounded tinny - probably would work great in a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">sideband</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> contest, but with it in the default position, the audio across the network sounded much more *natural*, the way it should</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">… NOTE, this may be an artifact of the Beagle, none of the normal usb</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">setup values are support in chan_beagle.c, etc.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">And lastly thanks to everyone who offered their nodes to me… it was a huge help. With my main allstar server on the same network as my 2 new nodes, while I could get the big allstar server to see both separately but using separate ports, I couldn't connect one to the other</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">… So having a node out in the networks… Solved the problem.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Alan</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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