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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Kevin,<br>
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What are you using for PC hardware? What's the processor, RAM,
etc? If changing from USB to Simple fixed the issue you reference
below, I'd say you were over taxing the computers capabilities.
USBradio is a wonderful thing, but only if you have the hardware
to support its functionality.<br>
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CTCSS is not mandatory. You can have a carrier squelch repeater,
or you can have the radio or other device do the decoding and use
"CTCSS from = usb or usbinvert" <br>
You also need to comment out the proper CTCSS components in the
usbradio conf file, otherwise CTCSS is automatically "turned on".<br>
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Again, the symptoms you speak of makes me believe you are running
out of horsepower.<br>
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Kevin Custer<br>
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On 3/27/2015 2:16 PM, Kevin Walsh wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4">Hi,<br>
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<font size="4">I am an newbie/oldbie who has been trying
to get a successful Allstar repeater node working for
quite some time. I have had success with creating many
simplex nodes, but a reliable repeater eludes me. I
can't speak with any authority to the USB audio
issues, but I can say that switching from usbradio to
simpleusb DID cure one of the problems I was having.
The problem was audio would be completely distorted
(including announcements and reset beep) - it sounded
as though the audio was passing through a large window
fan. Not every time you keyed the repeater up, but
about 25% of the time. Switching to simpleusb got rid
of that issue.<br>
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<div><font size="4">When selecting usbradio, why is CTCSS
mandatory in some manner? Why can't I just say "no to
tone" and let the radio handle the decoding?<br>
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<font size="4">My current project involves two Motorola
CDM1250 radios on 220MHz as a repeater. Here is a list
of behavior that I'm trying to resolve. Any suggestions
would be appreciated.<br>
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<font size="4">The repeater sounds fine when it first starts
up, although I consider the audio to be a bit low. It will
work just fine, pass audio, decode DTMF, etc., until it
sits idle for an hour or so. Then you can kerchunk the
repeater, it ID's just fine and the reset beep sounds
normal, but it won't pass audio from one radio to another
and it seemingly won't decode DTMF (watching in
asterisk_cli). I can login via Allmon2 (Great Addition,
thank you Tim) and have it say the time of day - it sounds
great. It just won't pass audio. Reboot the machine and
audio will pass just fine.<br>
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<font size="4">I am certain that the computer is not going to
sleep - all power saving is disabled in bios. I am also
connected to the node via SSH at the time, so the computer
can't be asleep. I have tried multiple computers, multiple
cable harnesses, I have tried two different URI devices and
a third URIx.<br>
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<div><font size="4">I will say that I wouldn't have gotten this
far without Doug Compton's excellent documentation from his
BBB project.<br>
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73,<br>
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<div><font size="4">Kevin<br>
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<div><font size="4">W8KHW<br>
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