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Link audio level
by K5CG 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

I'm trying to lower the audio level from the link to my RF repeater and I'm not seeing the linkmongain setting making a lick of difference. I have tried -6, -10, -20 and now have... linkmongain=-999 ...in the node section below Audio level settings and above Dial Plan settings but there is no change. I wold expect this value to mute it completely on my transmitter audio. http://docs.allstarlink.org/drupal/node/71 Asterisk 1.4.23-pre.hamvoip-V1.5.3-28- app_rpt-0.327 -04/05/2018 (should be OK, right?) Linux allstar 4.4.44-1-ARCH #1 SMP Mon Jan 23 19:01:18 MST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux What have I done incorrectly? Thanks Danny K5CG

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Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM [RX Packet Out of Bounds] ***Updated***
by Hayden Honeywood 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Is the time in UTC? How far off is the system time? Have you done a full calibration of each board? What baud rate do you run on your GPS's? I tend to use 9600 baud and have had no issues with the GPS's I have used. There is various GPS debug tools available in the RTCM. They are documented here - https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/RTCM_Client#GPS Can you possibly try injecting a 9.6MHz signal in place of the crystal on board? Perhaps you have a variant of James KI0KN's problem where his crystals were off frequency. I can't comment on that as I built all my boards and they have external frequency references. Regards Hayden VK7HH > > From: App_rpt-users <app_rpt-users-bounces(a)lists.allstarlink.org> On > Behalf Of Hayden Honeywood > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 5:34 PM > To: app_rpt-users(a)lists.allstarlink.org > Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM [RX Packet Out of Bounds] ***Updated*** > > > > What is your values in voter.conf for RX buffer (960) and in the RTCM > client for TX buffer (480). Are all RTCM TX buffers set to the same value? > Yes, 480. These values were based upon the math Jim provided, which is a > function of maximum latencies on the network. We rarely have greater than > 1ms to any host on the network. > > > > Are all the GPS's in a location where they cannot be swamped with RF? Yes, > and they utilize PCTEL antennas with filtering for use in RF dense > environments. > > > > Some users have had success with a dedicated RTCM as the master timing > source (with no radio connected). Has it been suspected that an RTCM > doesn’t have the horsepower to handle both functions contemporaneously? > > > > Regards > > Hayden VK7HH > >

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Announcing AllStarLink Asterisk version 1.01
by K5CG 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Starting over. Brand new Pi 3 B + Formatted microSD card with SD Formatter. Re-flashed microSD card with Win32 Disk Imager Booted, "Resized root filesystem... rebooting" Logged in as repeater Changed password for "repeater" user sudo su - to become root passwd to set root user password Edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to enable root login systemctl restart ssh to refresh sshd config ip addr 192.168.1.225/24 (from DHCP) ssh to 192.168.1.225 as root user root@repeater:~# apt-mark hold raspberrypi-kernel-headers raspberrypi-kernel raspberrypi-kernel-headers set on hold. raspberrypi-kernel set on hold. root@repeater:~# apt-get update Fetched 11.9 MB in 8s (1,361 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done root@repeater:~# apt-get upgrade -y Preparing... Unpacking... Yadda yadda... Setting up linux-libc-dev:armhf (4.9.82-1+deb9u3+rpi1) ... Setting up libicu57:armhf (57.1-6+deb9u2) ... Setting up raspi-config (20180406+1) ... Setting up perl (5.24.1-3+deb9u3) ... Setting up libssl1.0.2:armhf (1.0.2l-2+deb9u3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ... Setting up libssl1.1:armhf (1.1.0f-3+deb9u2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u2) ... Setting up openssl (1.1.0f-3+deb9u2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Setting up asl-asterisk-tools (1.01-20180226-10) ... Setting up libraspberrypi0 (1.20180417-1) ... Setting up libraspberrypi-doc (1.20180417-1) ... Setting up libraspberrypi-dev (1.20180417-1) ... Setting up libraspberrypi-bin (1.20180417-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ... root@repeater:~# reboot Now that the initial steps are done, do I run asl-menu as the user repeater or root? The readme isn't specific. From: "Steve Zingman" <szingman(a)msgstor.com> To: "Users of Asterisk app_rpt" <app_rpt-users(a)lists.allstarlink.org> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 1:12:01 PM Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Announcing AllStarLink Asterisk version 1.01 Danny, Did you do this before asl-menu? sudo apt-mark hold raspberrypi-kernel-headers raspberrypi-kernel sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo reboot Steve N4IRS On 4/20/2018 2:09 PM, K5CG wrote: I downloaded the raspberry pi latest [ http://dvswitch.org/files/ASL_Images/Raspberry_Pi/Stretch/ASL_1.01-20180228… | http://dvswitch.org/files/ASL_Images/Raspberry_Pi/Stretch/ASL_1.01-20180228… ] I followed the included readme file instructions and It booted fine but the asl-menu does not work correctly for the networking (static IP), and it doesn't set the hostname or domain name. After rebooting at the end of the process everything is the same as it was. Hostname is still "repeater" and IP is still DHCP. I seem to recall having this issue before on an older build. Is there a trick to get this to work or must it be done manually? Danny K5CG _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list [ mailto:App_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.org | App_rpt-users(a)lists.allstarlink.org ] [ http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users | http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users ] To unsubscribe from this list please visit [ http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users | http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users ] and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem. _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users(a)lists.allstarlink.org http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem.

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Send text Commands to Echolink
by Jeffrey Lehman, KC8QCH 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

HI all, This may have been asked before and may be a silly question, but is it possible to send text commands to Echolink? I have an Allstar Node that connects to an Echolink conference fulltime. Is there a way to send conference command to the conference from the allstar node? Or am I just dreaming which is possible too. thanks :) Jeff -- Jeff Lehman, KC8QCH https://kc8qch.ddns.net kc8qch(a)gmail.com Webmaster Hamilton County ARPSC https://www.hamcoarpsc.org hamcoarpsc(a)gmail.com AllStar 47374 Node Administrator World Wide Amateur Radio Guild https://theguildglobal.org

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Router Malware Warnings from FBI
by Mike 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Just in the case you have not heard the news of the past week, There is a warning issued by the FBI about a potential malware threat to routers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/… While I did try to dig deeper on this over the weekend, I could not obtain the grimy details. But it looks like a sleeper so you might want to do due diligence and reset your router to clear the ram. When I say sleeper, I mean it has yet to perform new duties so it might not affect anything now. I'm clearing all of mine once a day till I find out more. Just a FYI. ...mike/kb8jnm

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SimpleUSB
by Mike 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Can someone send me a copy of their modules.conf and SimpleUSB.conf/RadioUSB (off list) that is using only SimpleUSB or RadioUSB AND a Parallel port for i/o I guessing I'm missing something for the pport in modules.conf. As I try to transition/convert to a deb9 and new ASL from ACID, and to get back into the practice with scripting, I'm having issues with a 'headed system' using parallel port. My old config's don't work at all. So I'm missing something. Perhaps something new ? ...mike/kb8jnm

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Help with Searching Key-Words App_rpt-users Forum
by John W Benedict 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hello Group, I am new with the group and relatively new with Allstar as well. Is there a way to search this forum for information already discussed? Thank you John [ke5rs]

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My role with AllStarLink
by Steve Zingman 31 May '18

31 May '18

I would like to let everybody know there has been a change in the board of directors and leadership of AllStarLink. I have resigned from the board and as President of the organization. I am working with the board to transfer all of my responsibilities to others. I expect more information about the membership of the board will come from them. When Jim passed away, I was asked to step in and make sure AllStarLink continued. In fact, my goal was simple, AllStarLink should survive any single person. No matter who comes and goes, AllStarLink continues to move forward. We formed a Not for Profit corporation, setup a board of directors etc. Kevin, Bryan and Tim stepped up and filled out the board. All three have done quite a few very important tasks that got us on our feet. We moved the source code to GitHub where everybody could see the code and contribute. We made sure the DNS was solid and correct. The servers were backed up. An inventory of servers and application was built so that we could recover. You can't fix something if you don't know it exists and where it is. All in all lot's of work was done behind the scenes. There is still a great deal of thing to be done. We have teams for the infrastructure, development and administration. All the teams need people willing to put in the hard work of running what amounts to a enterprise. If you can help, step up! I am not falling off the edge of the earth, I have quite a few projects going. I will continue to contribute in my own way to AllStarLink, just not in a daily active role. This is a positive step. AllStarLink will continue to innovate. 73, Steve N4IRS

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Android IAXRPT
by Steve Zingman 31 May '18

31 May '18

Android IAXRPT has been returned to the Google Play Store 73, Steve N4IRS

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Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM [RX Packet Out of Bounds] ***Updated***
by Hayden Honeywood 30 May '18

30 May '18

What is your values in voter.conf for RX buffer and in the RTCM client for TX buffer. Are all RTCM TX buffers set to the same value? Are all the GPS's in a location where they cannot be swamped with RF? Some users have had success with a dedicated RTCM as the master timing source (with no radio connected). Regards Hayden VK7HH

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