<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As far as I know, the <a href="http://ohnosec.org">ohnosec.org</a> mailing list is still the "official" support mechanism.<div><br></div><div>Are the weather receivers going to be at the mountains or can they be at the datacenter?</div><div>If they are are at the datacenter, you can use DMK engineering URI interfaces connected with USB directly to the AllStar server.</div><div>If they are remote, then put them on RTCMs and shoot the data back to the server over ethernet.</div><div><br></div><div>Just make sure you configure everything properly with respect to pre-emphasized and non pre-emphasized audio.</div><div>The system can use either mode on a radio by radio basis… The built in DSP will do the conversions for you as needed.</div><div>CTCSS/digital PL tone detection/generation can be done in the system as well.</div><div><br></div><div>You can script pretty much anything you want the WX receivers to do at the server level (i.e. sending the WX alerts to the proper repeaters….)</div><div>and interrogating the WX receivers using DTMF commands front the repeaters.</div><div><br></div><div>My only concern from a voting/simulcast point of view is this:</div><div><br></div><div>Are the two repeaters on the same output frequency, and if so, do they overlap coverage areas?</div><div>The simulcast mode is not quite ready for prime time in that situation. (the RF and audio timing in the overlap areas is not as good as it needs to be</div><div>so you will actually interfere with yourself….) If the sites are different output frequencies, or there is no overlap area you are concerned about,</div><div>then the simulcast will work.</div><div><br></div><div>When you use the GPS receivers on the RTCM units, the RX voting works very well. but there is a delay in the repeated audio.</div><div>(similar to a cellphone or Nextel delay)</div><div>The RX voting is seamless. Without monitoring it on the server you won't even know it switched.</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: I've never done the voting/simulcast game, but there is a group here in the San Francisco Bay area experimenting with it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 3, 2013, at 3:37 AM, "Bob - AF6D" <<a href="mailto:bob@af6d.com">bob@af6d.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Your help makes it sound easy and I am
looking forward to getting it working. I opened another thread about an echo
even though we are already set as a full duplex base and not as a repeater.
This was the same as with the RC210 controllers we already have. My technical
manager is damn good and he’ll get it solved.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I understand that the server becomes the
repeater controller and I think I understand that everyone has their own. No
problem. But I don’t understand not using our link controller, the RC210.
We have a dedicated weather receiver, for example, that uses a FIPS code for
repeater 1’s area. Repeater 2’s area has a different FIPS. Should I
assume that since these devices use COR/PTT that a RTCM should be able to
attach? But then routing to the correct repeater…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Again, first things first. Repeater 1 (R1)
is running at Site 1 (S1) and R2 is going online we hope this week at S2. The
voted coverage pattern will be tremendous! I especially like being able to add
a fill receiver in an area that can hear the repeater but mobiles and HT’s
cannot.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Thank you for allowing me to be here as a
student. I may ask a dumb question and probably get an answer back that I won’t
understand. If I ask for clarification it won’t be out of disrespect. I
am hoping that my 15 years experience with high-end Linux hosting will allow me
to help others.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I see numerous users on the Yahoo group at
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/allstarlink/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/allstarlink/</a>.
I know that it’s faster but I don’t see anyone using it. Is this
list switching over to it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">As for simulcast I hesitate to name
mountain tops. Right now I have a DB224e with its back to S2. S2 will have its
back to S1. We expect to set all audio levels with random ladder test tones
using a HP 8924C. We’ll add the GPSO devices as required. Right now one
repeater reliably covers almost all of southern <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>. Excellent receive, 6,400 feet
location and a 1 watt HT can hit it full quieting from 100 miles away. No
kidding. Give me a call on 147.705( - ) 167.9. No courtesy tone without the
RTCM but all in time. I am getting excited!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Don Hackler [mailto:donh@<a href="http://sigma.net">sigma.net</a>]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 03, 2013 2:40
AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Bob - AF6D<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [App_rpt-users]
Motorola Phone Patch (Bob - AF6D)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">You shouldn't have that much trouble making it all fly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Nothing is as complicated as say, setting up a Cisco router using
IOS...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">You just have to understand some of the terminology, and get some
signal polarities headed the right direction, so get the basics running on the
workbench first.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Get the radios and the RTCMs talking to the AllStar server and make it
vote/repeat like you want.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Be sure and have a service monitor handy so you can set audio and
modulation levels. At that point you are good to go for installing on the
mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Let AllStar do as much of the repeater control as you possibly can,
it's far more flexible than the built in repeater controllers. Ideally,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">you would just have access to the RX and TX and feed them back to the
AllStar box through the RTCM.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The phone stuff can be added later, since it's all done in the server
on the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">I meant warm and cozy compared to the mountain tops...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Some of the data centers here in the <st1:place w:st="on">Silicon
Valley</st1:place> are in heavy energy conservation mode, so they run them
uncomfortably warm.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The voting and linking is working pretty well with the RTCM system, but
I hear the simulcast is not working so well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">(if you are not trying to do a single frequency simulcast where a
receiver can hear both transmitters on the same freq, you are probably
OK…)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:02 AM, "Bob - AF6D" <<a href="mailto:bob@af6d.com">bob@af6d.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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-webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I am very impressed with what you have
done but must admit that you’ve scare the stuffing out of me! I have
built several complete hosting data centers (behind a main providers
infrastructure) and can get around Linux. All I want for now are two mountain
tops that will get public links (each repeater can only see one control center)
using Ubiquity. I am AT site one and will provide internet. Site 2 can be seen
by repeater 2 and he will use Ubiquity to link up. At the end of the day they
need to see the datacenter. I’ll add phone patching later. We intend to
link/vote/simulcast.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Step one seems to be to get the RTC
installed. But as far as a warm and cozy data center? Ain’t gonna happen!
They are like refrigerators! LOL.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Don Hackler
[mailto:donh@<a href="http://sigma.net/">sigma.net</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 03, 2013 12:37
AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Bob - AF6D<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [App_rpt-users]
Motorola Phone Patch (Bob - AF6D)</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">In your situation, I would use Micro-Node RTCM modules on the repeaters
to minimize the computer hardware on mountain tops.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">All they need is some internet (or private ethernet) connectivity back
to the server in the warm cozy datacenter.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The RTCM modules don't even need static or public IP addresses as long
as they have an IP address for the server in the datacenter..<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The RTCM module is effectively a remote URI that uses ethernet instead
of a direct USB connection.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Ideally, you want the Allstar system to be the repeater controller for
the most flexibility, but <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">the RTCM will also do basic repeater control if the internet connection
dies.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Personally, I have an AllStar server that just talks to local radios
over DMK URI modules, and it has an IAX connection to my "production"
Asterisk phone servers.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The radios can be dialed as extensions from my main phone servers, and
I can route an outside trunk directly to a radio if I want.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The radios can also dial extensions in my production servers.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">You can setup dial plans in either the Allstar box (or the Asterisk
server) that will only allow certain numbers to be dialed from the radios or
codes that dial explicit numbers.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">It's all very flexible. The biggest issue is that the
ACID/apt_rpt distribution for AllStar is a fork of the main Asterisk
distribution that is frozen at Asterisk 1.4<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">It is minimalist command line driven system with very steep learning
curve.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">I use PBX in a Flash Distributions of more modern Asterisk versions to
connect to the outside world and do the heavy lifting. It's still a
handful to learn, but it's mostly<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">a web GUI that is a lot easier to get things done, and it's a fairly
secure distribution (with a very minimal attack surface) if you put it behind a
firewall. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Mar 2, 2013, at 10:06 PM, "Bob - AF6D" <<a href="mailto:bob@af6d.com">bob@af6d.com</a>> wrote:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">This is excellent news! To be clear on random
connections, I’d like my own private network, but I’d also like a
public server. Can they be the same server? Not a problem either way. I have
rack space.<u4:p></u4:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The reasons to use Allstar that you state
are the reasons we’ve chosen it. Snow has hampered us somewhat with
another storm brewing mid-week. We’re getting about one foot a week at
6,400 feet in So. <st1:state u5:st="on"><st1:place u5:st="on"><st1:state u6:st="on"><st1:place u6:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state>.
Just enough to snow on my parade. For now then I need to configure each
repeater and the Thin Client.<u4:p></u4:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Don Hackler
[mailto:donh@<a href="http://sigma.net/">sigma.net</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 02, 2013
9:40 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Bob - AF6D<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <<a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [App_rpt-users]
Motorola Phone Patch (Bob - AF6D)</span></font><u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt">You won't have much trouble setting up what you want with some config
file hackage.<u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Most of the phone patch "secret sauce" is just Asterisk
configuration. If you don't want random Allstar connections, you don't
need to allow them. The phone patch is easy to control. You will
need a sip trunk, either from an external provider, or you can put a SIP
adapter on a local POTS line. You will find that a cheap SIP trunk costs
less than a POTS line with adapter and works much better.<u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Radios are simply extensions on the asterisk system. This makes them very
flexible. <u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:19 PM, "Bob - AF6D" <<a href="mailto:bob@af6d.com">bob@af6d.com</a>> wrote:<u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">You have exposed my rookiness! LOL. I am aware that a thin
client hooked up acts like a controller. Fallback mode I guess. But I was under
the impression that there are open conference servers, or that others may call
our node if connected to the internet. I have much to learn.<u8:p></u8:p></span></font><u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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font-family:Arial">Our plan remains the same. We intend to link both
MSF’s on different mountain tops via our own server. I own the hosting
company and have Tier 1 bandwidth at my beckon call. But we want to have our
own phone patch and have a phone line at our data center. Both nodes are true
public safety (ECS/ARES/SAR) and expenses come out of my wallet. It is my hope
that there is a way to add a phone patch that doesn’t cost us a recurring
fee.<u8:p></u8:p></span></font><u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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font-family:Arial">With regards to our dedicated server I was under the
impression that we could have our own private network, and, a public network
for others to use. Giving back for fun and for free. But our phone patch would
be for our exclusive use. We envision macros that will telephone specific
numbers. I am Linux literate if I can create my own phone patch.<u8:p></u8:p></span></font><u4:p></u4:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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