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<DIV>Not wanting to hijack Skyler’s thread I have created my own.</DIV>
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<DIV>With that said, our needs are simple. We have three repeaters that need to
be converted to RTCM's/Allstar controllers. I believe that RTCM's are the better
solution for remote repeaters. Next, we need weather receive that plays
for the local repeater area only. Can this be done? Repeater 1 covers Los
Angeles. Repeater 2 covers the desert area and repeater 3 covers the mountains.
How then -in theory- do we get weather to play only for its coverage area?
Complicating this question is that besides our 2m repeaters we have 70cm and 900
MHz repeaters that overlap. How then -in theory- do we pipe weather to these
machines and not play over the entire network?</DIV>
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<DIV>I wonder if creating separate hubs for each repeater would help and then
adding resources to each group would be the answer. These hubs could reside on
our rather powerful dual processor server. Each hub could then link to one
another just as any other hub from another repeater might. Organization is going
to be important for us because other repeaters on other bands want to be a part
of our ECOMM network. Earthquakes and weather are a big part of what we are
about, but we also act to help motorists, hikers, campers, ATVers, bikers etc,
et al. Anyone that needs help will know that they simply call and someone will
help them. In addition we encourage chit chat!</DIV>
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<DIV>To the topic, how then do we begin with weather scripts? I know little at
this point. We have one hub operating from a remote base and hope to install the
RTCM on the remote repeater this weekend. Then on to repeaters 2 and 3.</DIV>
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<DIV>One step at a time.</DIV>
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<DIV>R. Wayne</DIV>
<DIV>KI6ZTP Rpt Grp</DIV>
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