Good evening everyone!
I've had my node number registered (44170) for a few months now, and I'm
FINALLY getting around to trying to actually set it up, but am running into
some issues. Will start with a run-down of what I'm working with.
Radio: Motorola CDM1250 UHF
Cabling: Pre-made cables from Marshall, KE6PCV
Interface: DMK URI-X
Computer: Raspberry Pi 3
Installation: RAT RC1 (have also tried the older 1.0.1 DIAL install with
same issues)
The setup is a simplex node on 446.500 with a tone of 91.5. I have the
radio itself detecting the tone via programming, as well as transmitting the
same tone. If I do a simple "kerchunk" from my HT (only about 5 feet away
from the antenna, thru the wall of my house), the courtesy tone will return
back to me. If I transmit for more than a second or so, I do *NOT* get the
courtesy tone. The computer also does not seem to receive the DTMF tones
when I try to transmit *81 - if I run asterisk -r from the command line and
try to transmit tones, I see no indication that the system is hearing those
tones. I suspect I have something mis-programmed in the radio - this is the
first time I've ever tried to program a Motorola radio, and CPS has a lot of
options I'm not familiar with. I've tried a bunch of google searches,
without any luck, so I'm throwing this out to the world. Is there a good
run-down step-by-step to programming the CDM1250 I could refer to that I
haven't seen? I've tried the batlabs site and a bunch of google searches to
no avail.
The final goal in this is to use what I learn with this simplex node to
rebuild our clubs off-air UHF repeater as an AllStar node. Once that's
working, I'd like to convert our existing 2m repeater to yet another AllStar
node, and permanently link them together. But I don't want to tackle the
repeater until I have the simplex node working properly!
Any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated! I am familiar with
Linux systems (Linux sys-admin by trade), but not real familiar with
Asterisk or AllStar yet.
Jeremy Utley, NQ0M
Iola, KS
