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allstar-sys context
by Stephen - K1LNX 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

I'm slowly bringing my Allstar node back online (hopefully it will work in ESXI, crossing fingers! So far so good) and I noticed a few new contexts in extensions.conf and iax.conf that wasn't there in the past. It looks like the allstar-public context is used for the web transceiver portal which I don't plan on using, but I don't quite understand the allstar-sys context. Has this changed from the past? I've always just used radio-secure which contains the following (don't think this is different from the default): extensions.conf: [radio-secure] exten => ${NODE},1,rpt,${NODE} And in my IAX.conf I just pass the incoming calls to this context: [radio] type=user disallow=all allow=ulaw allow=gsm codecpriority=host context=radio-secure transfer=no I build my own configs so I don't rely on the portal generating the configs for me, as I have a lot of custom dialplan code in extensions.conf. I'm still running diff's against my old files so I may undoubtedly uncover some more "new" stuff ;) 73 Stephen K1LNX

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Re: [App_rpt-users] App_rpt-users Digest, Vol 40, Issue 38
by Jay Prakash Singh 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hello All, I am trying to make a call from Radio to a IP Phone registered to Asterisk. It includes DTMF detection, number verification and call establishment. Asterisk is unable to decode the DTMF and make a call. Regards Jay -----Original Message----- From: app_rpt-users-bounces(a)ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of app_rpt-users-request(a)ohnosec.org Sent: 15 June 2012 10:56 To: app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org Subject: App_rpt-users Digest, Vol 40, Issue 38 Send App_rpt-users mailing list submissions to app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to app_rpt-users-request(a)ohnosec.org You can reach the person managing the list at app_rpt-users-owner(a)ohnosec.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of App_rpt-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. allstarlink.org Registration (Tony Olivero) 2. Consensus on the DTMF falsing (Alan Adamson) 3. Good Laugh (Alan Adamson) 4. Re: allstarlink.org Registration ((KP4TR)Ramon Gonzalez) 5. Re: allstarlink.org Registration (Jim Duuuude) 6. Setting up a Pico node with Pickle (Eric Moeller) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:42:53 -0500 From: "Tony Olivero" <anthony(a)olivero.us> To: <app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org> Subject: [App_rpt-users] allstarlink.org Registration Message-ID: <01ec01cd4a6e$463b1eb0$d2b15c10$(a)olivero.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello: I have submitted a registration request to allstarlink.org, but never received confirmation instructions or a response to an e-mail I sent to a contact address listed on the website. Does anyone know how to get in touch with someone to either have those instructions re sent or to change my e-mail address that was used (there may have been a hang up with my League forwarding address). Thanks all for any help. Looking forward to experimenting with app_rpt. Tony AD9O

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RTCM CTCSS Output Tone
by Jim W7RY 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Just received my RTCM! Whoo Hoo! Have a question though. The PL tone output is also the transmit audio output. With my USB fob, I used both channels of the TX out, one for PL and one for audio. This worked perfectly for a Motorola Mitrek. Now I will be using a GP300 or P110 for a transmitter and would really like to separate the PL tone output from the audio output. What have others done? Will a 16 pin GM300 take PL into the microphone input? Or are you running the RTCM transmit audio into the flat audio input of the radio? Does the radio provide deviation limiting with this setup? I don’t think it does. Thanks! 73 Jim W7RY

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xipar and echolink...
by Bradley Haney 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hello all .. got a simplex node rolling on 28295 using the xipar flavor.. I put everything into the echolink.conf and try to connect to echotest or anyone it just says connection fail.. I have ports 5198-5200 open to my ip address.. When i do try to connect to an echolink station it does repeat back the node call sign so i know i connected to the database but seems something isn't right.. for servers i am using naeast.echolink.org nawest.echolink.org backup.echolink.org... this one always fails.. Any thoughts.. echolink node is under kc9gqr-L Thanks BRadley

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Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone
by Alan Adamson 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

I sent this direct and then realized maybe I'd get educated if I sent it to the list. I didn't think the RTCM did CTCSS *decode*, the instructions suggest that it does squelch, but the setup there says to set it high so it doesn't false, to get CTCSS, you would need to get it externally and attach it to the CTCSS pin? Or am I missing something… I can't find any settings for the voter.conf or the RTCM setup to tell it which PL to decode for example? So I'm thinking it goes not do decode…. Allstar however does to encode if applying the audio to the modulator directly… Alan From: Jim W7RY [mailto:w7ry@centurytel.net] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:20 PM To: Alan Adamson Cc: app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone Alan... You miss understand... I WANT the RTCM to generate my PL so I can use chicken burst on my non Motorola branded radios. I DON’T like squelch bursts Smile! As for your COS issue... Don’t use COS. Let the RTCM handle it. Just put discriminator audio into the RTCM. Also let the RTCM decode your PL tone too. It it’s as good as the URI, you have no worries! My plan is to us a pair of GP-300s (P110s) to make a repeater using the RTCM as a repeater controller. 73 Jim W7RY From: Alan Adamson <mailto:adamson_alan@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 12:07 PM To: 'Jim W7RY' <mailto:w7ry@centurytel.net> Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone Jim, when you get done, you have *got* to share :)… Can't you just program the GP300 to TX with the PL tone and not worry about the PL from the RTCM? Is the issue that you are not going into the modulator, you are going into the mic input, so the PL gets whacked or distorted? I run an RTCM on my repeater, but I let the repeater TX do the PL encode, I just put audio into it from the RTCM Alan From: app_rpt-users-bounces(a)ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Jim W7RY Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:03 PM To: app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone Just received my RTCM! Whoo Hoo! Have a question though. The PL tone output is also the transmit audio output. With my USB fob, I used both channels of the TX out, one for PL and one for audio. This worked perfectly for a Motorola Mitrek. Now I will be using a GP300 or P110 for a transmitter and would really like to separate the PL tone output from the audio output. What have others done? Will a 16 pin GM300 take PL into the microphone input? Or are you running the RTCM transmit audio into the flat audio input of the radio? Does the radio provide deviation limiting with this setup? I don’t think it does. Thanks! 73 Jim W7RY

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Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone
by Jim W7RY 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Alan... You miss understand... I WANT the RTCM to generate my PL so I can use chicken burst on my non Motorola branded radios. I DON’T like squelch bursts ! As for your COS issue... Don’t use COS. Let the RTCM handle it. Just put discriminator audio into the RTCM. Also let the RTCM decode your PL tone too. It it’s as good as the URI, you have no worries! My plan is to us a pair of GP-300s (P110s) to make a repeater using the RTCM as a repeater controller. 73 Jim W7RY From: Alan Adamson Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 12:07 PM To: 'Jim W7RY' Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone Jim, when you get done, you have *got* to share :)… Can't you just program the GP300 to TX with the PL tone and not worry about the PL from the RTCM? Is the issue that you are not going into the modulator, you are going into the mic input, so the PL gets whacked or distorted? I run an RTCM on my repeater, but I let the repeater TX do the PL encode, I just put audio into it from the RTCM Alan From: app_rpt-users-bounces(a)ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Jim W7RY Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:03 PM To: app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] RTCM CTCSS Output Tone Just received my RTCM! Whoo Hoo! Have a question though. The PL tone output is also the transmit audio output. With my USB fob, I used both channels of the TX out, one for PL and one for audio. This worked perfectly for a Motorola Mitrek. Now I will be using a GP300 or P110 for a transmitter and would really like to separate the PL tone output from the audio output. What have others done? Will a 16 pin GM300 take PL into the microphone input? Or are you running the RTCM transmit audio into the flat audio input of the radio? Does the radio provide deviation limiting with this setup? I don’t think it does. Thanks! 73 Jim W7RY

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Allstar and echolink
by pete M 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

I have a small question If I have a net and my repeater is connected to some node on echolink and some user on allstar. Will both user type will ear each other? Let me explain my setup I want to do. First I have 2 repeater connected to a rc-210 constroler (one Vhf , one UHF) on port 1 and 2 I want to connect my allstar computer to port 3 and connect it to port 1 and 2 during the net. Right now I only have a Link to echolink by UHF and all the delay that add up is very annoying. And I want to use Allstar to connect some remote user and repeater to our network. I will use a Thin Client with a URI as the allstar computer) Pierre VE2PF

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Portable micro-node?
by Alan Adamson 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Ok, so I want to build a portable micro-node for allstar around an RTCM. I have the RTCM know how to configure it, etc. What I just can't figure out is *what radio* to use.. I'd like this to be portable and low power - ala HT. I've got any number of commercial motorola HT's or a few dual band Ham HT's (specifically thinking the TH-79A that I have laying around).. So what are you all using and what's easy to hook up? I really don't want another *mobile* radio, that's just too much overkill. If you would, can you offer hookup directions (not to the RTCM, I know that part), but to whatever radio you are using? Thanks in advance, Alan

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Major Allstar Issue
by Matt Roberts 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Saturday morning I discovered I was having problems with my Allstar box. I wanted to control my node from the CLI, so logged in. My goal was to connect to Echolink, but my commands weren't working. The repeater would not key! I tried to reboot the computer but to a message telling me the command didn't exist. I tried using shutdown, but got no result either. I thought maybe the thing to do is reboot the computer from the power switch. I did that, and could not log-in remotely. The message I got was "access denied try later." Later, I remember when my micro node won't boot, you connect a keyboard to it, and hit F1. I shutdown the computer from the power switch again, and performed this action. The repeater is working, but when I try to connect remotely, I get "connection refused." I didn't change the port for SSH. Also, all three of my nodes have disappeared from the database. When you bring up the system wide node list, nodes 28142, 28143, and 28504 indicate they've been removed from the database. I never requested that! The 28142 node is my repeater, 28143 is my remote base, and 28504 was originally going to be used for a hub, but I've decided to make it a RTCM node. This will take a while, because I need to gather the funds for the equipment. I have an ISO image on my PC, but am not sure how to make it into a bootable CD. Matt Roberts n9gmr(a)me.com Call Sign N9GMR IRLP 4515 EchoLink 640860 Allstar 28142

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Another install question...
by Jah Rastafari 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

OK, one more install problem that's got me pulling my hair out... I'm doing a fresh reinstall from scratch and I suddenly find the install going into a endless loop of the "Phase 2 Post Install" then rebooting ad infinitum. That sound familiar to anyone? Bob KK6RQ

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