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<font face="Calibri">Hi, <br>
<br>
I'm new on this list, so here's a quick presentation. My callsign
is TK1BI, I'm living in Corsica, and I've got some experience
about building and maintaining analog repeaters and interconnects
all around our small island in the Mediterranean sea. I'm now
doing my first experiments in the digital world. Working with Open
Source software, and with "open" systems, seems obvious to me ;-)<br>
<br>
I built my first Asterisk/app_rpt from source on a HummingBoard (a
Raspberry Pi clone, powered by an ARM7 quad-core Freescale iMX6).
The operating system is Debian.<br>
<br>
The next step will be to order some low-cost USB soundcards, and
connect them to a pair of radios, to create a test repeater. In
the meantime, we are reactivating and old project of HamNet WiFi
network, to carry TCP/IP to the mountains where our VHF/UNF
repeaters are located.<br>
<br>
Anyway, there is some interest here for D-Star. Lots of people are
buying rigs, and having fun with it. Even if D-Star does not match
my idea of an "open" system, I'm thinking about the possibilities
to make a gateway between analog, AllStar and D-Star world. But I
didn't find much information about that. What I understood is that
I need to use the additional software "RptDir" with a hardware
AMBE codec. There are some web sites about that, but it's unclear
for me if these are currently supported projects or not.<br>
<br>
Then, here are some questions :<br>
- About RptDir, it seems I also need a piece of software called
"dstar2analog", but I didn't find it anywhere<br>
- About the hardware codec : the "DV Dongle" seems expensive to
me, and I didn't find any reseller in Europe. The DV3000 card for
Raspberry Pi seems more interesting to me, but is it supported for
what I want to do ?<br>
- Are there already some attempts to interconnect Asterisk routing
with D-Star routing (ie, more than just sending the audio between
each other) ?<br>
<br>
Thank you in advance for your answers, and for pointing out some
interesting ressources about that.<br>
<br>
Hope to be QRV soon :-) <br>
73 de TK1BI<br>
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