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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks Ken,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">That did it. I have it all tweaked in now and the sound is much better. Not getting any complaints from the Echolink crowd any longer. I wasn’t sure where the
2 gain statements needed to be. I guessed wrong and had them in echolink.conf. So now I have that Hi Fi audio from GSM land ……..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Bill Hurlock<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ken [mailto:ke2n@cs.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bill Hurlock; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [App_rpt-users] Audio Quality issues on Echolink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">well as I understand it - the etxgain= statement goes into rpt.conf, not echolink.conf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">and you probably need to do an asterisk restart to make it effective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I have been happy enough with the default settings, but I am guessing if you have nothing in your node stanza (in rpt.conf) you will be 3 dB low on transmit audio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Remember that E/L is GSM ... same thing they use on overseas cell phones. So if it like a bad overseas cell phone call, then you have it perfect.<br>
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Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">KE2N<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">W4BRM/R<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Bill Hurlock <<a href="mailto:bill.hurlock@cpcomms.com">bill.hurlock@cpcomms.com</a>><br>
To: app_rpt-users <<a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a>><br>
Sent: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 12:33 pm<br>
Subject: [App_rpt-users] Audio Quality issues on Echolink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">Has anyone had problems with very low outbound audio to echolink connections? <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">The audio reports from the Echolink side are very thin audio, no highs or lows <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">and low level. I have went through my RF link and also through Webtranceiver <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">with the same results. If I do parrot mode on my link, my audio sounds great. <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">The issue seems to be in the interconnect to Echolink. Also I tried adjusting <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">the link TX & RX echolink audio levels but I can't hear any change no matter <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">what amounts of + or - gain I put in the etxgain or erxgain statements in the <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><tt><span style="color:black">echolink.conf file. Any ideas???<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre>
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