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<DIV>Thank you again, Jeff and Chuck as well. I appreciate your answers and will
only wait in hopes of hearing from someone that has interfaced a CDM 750 as a
2nd receiver on the Motorola MSF 5000. The MSF IS DESIGNED for a 2nd receiver
and has an additional connector for plugging one in. But we lack the schematic
for *anything* that discussed this connector. This is why I thought of Allstar.
We have a RTCM connected to a (Yaesu) Vertex VX-4200 off site that we’re using
in half-duplex mode to access the repeater using SIP or the web transceiver. It
works fine and yes, the audio quality is there. The 4200’s have reverse burst
and so far works well. We’re thinking of placing a 4200 or a CDM 750 at our
back-up site and using Allstar to bring it to the repeater. We can set the PL at
the main site to a different value and not lose its coverage while benefitting
from a remotely located receiver. Absent instructions on interfacing the MSF 2nd
receiver this will have to o. I think this will actually work better in the long
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=k0jsc.jeff@gmail.com
href="mailto:k0jsc.jeff@gmail.com">Jeff Carrier</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 09, 2015 7:40 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=allstar@controlservers.net
href="mailto:allstar@controlservers.net">R. Wayne</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [App_rpt-users] Motorola MSF / Voting /
Receivers;</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>you have to set your buffers for the latency on your "worst" voter
so that's going to slow things down. We kicked this around and decided
against it. You can do it but the delays will be more. I'm running a
2 site voter and it works great once I realized I could turn the buffers down to
the minimum value. Throwing a controller in the mix will complicate things
IMHO. The RTCM will do all the work for you and it's a simple device and
quite reliable. I have an RC210 on the shelf that I may never use again,
when it worked it worked good but when it didn't it was a total PITA. The
RTCM's really need their audio from the discriminator to vote (I think) at least
that's how i'm doing it. The CDM's just sound beautiful too. The
audio is full range and clean. They're good even as a transmitter but you
really have to take a 45 watt version and turn it down to 20 watts otherwise
you'll fry the PA sooner or later. I have a shelf full of CDM "receivers"
since they no longer have a functional PA. I am not familiar with the MSF
but if you can still use it's transmitter and stick the CDM inside the cabinet
you should be good. I pulled the receiver tray out of a mastr II and stuck
a CDM in it's place though some would call that GE blasphemy </DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 8:19 AM, R. Wayne <SPAN
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<DIV>Great answer, Jeff! We KNOW that the MSF is designed for a 2nd receiver
tray and it would be nice if we had some direction. At least a schematic on
that sub-section. Nope. “It won’t work. Don’t waste your time... (or ours by
asking.) Thank you for your reply.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is another say that we can go. We can use a RC-210 controller or
even a Zetron 38, a RC-100 – any number of external hardware controllers. But
then how will Allstar like this? With the RC210 we can put the repeater on
port 1, the receiver on port 2, and the RTCM on port 3 and then tell them all
to talk to one another? We even have some Vertex VX-4100’s that have 20 KHz
channel spacing and similar spec’s as the CDM750. Wouldn’t it be great to just
solve the problem rather than adding more hardware complexity?</DIV>
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<DIV>It seems that Allstar is the solution as long as we can speed up the
audio delay. But then again if we vote will it matter? I mean , won’t they all
have some delay caused by the internet itself? Our biggest concern is with the
“primary” receiver going out to the internet and then back just for the
repeater to TX. What if the internet goes down? So then would our repeater.
Our site vendor has 25 sites connected over 5.8 GHz and if we used a VPN this
wouldn't be an issue. But we have receivers that will be remoted and this will
require internet rather than a VPN right?</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=k0jsc.jeff@gmail.com
href="mailto:k0jsc.jeff@gmail.com" target=_blank>Jeff Carrier</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 09, 2015 6:49 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=allstar@controlservers.net
href="mailto:allstar@controlservers.net" target=_blank>R. Wayne</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [App_rpt-users] Motorola MSF / Voting /
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<DIV dir=ltr>I'll leave part 2 to one of the experts but as for part 1
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<DIV>The CDM makes a great receiver. Though it's less desirable to me
than an MTR2000 those just aren't in the budget. Its certainly easier to
interface to than the MASTR III's that I have on the bench now. It is a
mobile radio but in my installation I have 12 commercial UHF DMR MTR3000's all
running nearly 100 watts at the same site as my UHF receiver and they're only
separated horizontally and not vertically. My CDM receiver also has a
preamp and I've had almost no trouble. I did have a mixing product but
only when a 2 meter remote base transmitted on 144.890. I'll add I have
a pretty crappy duplexer on this but it is BP/BR and also has a pre-selector
between the preamp and the receiver. Still, they seem to have a "decent"
front end for a mobile radio. </DIV>
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<DIV>73 de K0JSC</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 7:33 AM, R. Wayne <SPAN
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<DIV>We have learned the hard way that our Motorola MSF 5000 repeaters with
30 KHz channel spacing and a 2 MHz wide front-end just cannot handle
southern California’s 15 KHz channel spacing. We’ve tried using the 15 KHz
replacement crystals with miserable results. We have not located 20 KHz
crystals and even if we could we don't know what circuit changes would be
necessary to tailor the audio response. We have asked on a site how to
interface a Motorola CDM 750 mobile transceiver with 20 KHz channel spacing
and instead of an answer we’re told it won’t work. It’s a mobile. Don’t
waste your time. Well, its our time to experiment. I know of several popular
repeaters here on SoCal built using the CDM 750 / 1250.</DIV>
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<DIV>OK. About Allstar. It seems if we can’t get an answer about directly
interfacing a second receiver to a MSF 5000 that is designed for a second
receiver we need to look at how Allstar can allow us to use an external
receiver. Besides the obvious of a USB or RTCM is there any way to create
like a LOCALHOST situation at the repeater site where we can almost
eliminate any audio delay? We know that, and plan to use, off-site voting to
cover our rather large footprint. That will have to be on an external
Internet IP rather than an internal IP (192.168.x.x). Can we have both? An
internal network and an external network? Or do we have to use one network
especially if we plan on doing voting?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you in advance.</DIV><SPAN><FONT color=#888888>
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<DIV>R.
Wayne</DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>App_rpt-users
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