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Simplex link to a repeater via Motorola maxtrac
by Loren Tedford 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hello my name is Loren I'm needing some guidance on this node here. The problem I'm having is if node is not transmitting to the repeater it still IDs every 10 minutes because somebody else was actually transmitting on the repeater how do I set it up to where only if my node transmits to id then I'd ten minutes after basically set it up on tx side only not RX and tx side... Loren Tedford (KC9ZHV) Email: lorentedford(a)gmail.com Email: loren(a)lorentedford.com Phone: 618-553-0806 http://www.lorentedford.com Sent from Droid RAZR HD from Verizon wireless network

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Beagle Bone Blacks
by Geoff 14 May '14

14 May '14

at 10:14am Central Time, I got this email: We have restocked a product you asked to be notified about. Please check it out before it goes out of stock again! -------------------------------------------------- Product Back In Stock -------------------------------------------------- BeagleBone Black Rev C - 4GB Flash - Pre-installed Debian Link: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1876 ================== limit 1 per customer. I got mine ordered.

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Dayton, Ohio
by Trevor Halsey 13 May '14

13 May '14

Not really. There's several in Cincinnati, and mine I'm still testing. It operates, just not live on AllStarLink yet. I just need to pick up one of those premade USB to Motorola adapters while I'm there and it will be live! My 70cm repeater (using 35w) is located not even a mile away from the Brookville KOA! Its listed on repeaterbook.com (I don't remember my freq pair, but its open.) Feel free to test it out sometime over the weekend. Sent from my Windows Phone -----Original Message----- From: "Angelo Glorioso" <n5uxt(a)hotmail.com> Sent: ‎5/‎13/‎2014 11:23 AM To: "app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Dayton, Ohio Sorry for this being off the topic, but I am planning to head to Dayton, Oh for hamvention and was wondering if there are any allstar systems in the area?? 73 de Angelo

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app_rpt global channel variables
by mike＠midnighteng.com 12 May '14

12 May '14

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USB hubs with BB Black?
by Jonathan Weirmeir 12 May '14

12 May '14

Good morning. I seem to remember seeing posts recommending not using USB hubs. However, the BeagleBone Black only has one USB host connector. I'd like to use two URIx's with the BB Black. Any suggestions? 73 DE KC8RYW

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Re: [App_rpt-users] RTCM and voting setup
by Mark Johnston 12 May '14

12 May '14

Thanks Chuck, finally got most of my issues worked out using the V/S Hi output and setting the discrim level on the RTCM -20db This fixed my TT's and allowed the tune up to work as the directions stated it should - I do have the CTCSS decode going to the input for CTCSS on the RTCM - however what happens is the system gets keyed up with no PL required - even though no signal is sent on that connection. Measured with analog V Meter, and shows same 0V ~ as it does with no signal, same as it does with a signal that has no PL. If the signal has the proper 123.0 hz PL I get a +4V~ The settings on the RTCM: 12 - External CTCSS (0=Ignore, 1=Non-Inverted, 2=Inverted) (1) 13 - COR Type (0=Normal, 1=IGNORE COR, 2=No Receiver) (1) If I set 12 to 2 = inverted it will stay keyed and unkey when it receives a signal from the radio. Set to 1 and it works but does not pay attention to the PL set 13 to 1 to ignore COR and thus should only operate from CTCSS, yet it still seems to respond to COR for some reason. Seems very strange - Not sure what to make of this, or do I even need a PL to keep the repeater quiet? While noise should not trigger the system, anyone without a PL would... If you have any other ideas, that would be great, or if anyone else does... Thanks again for the help! PS the audio seems so much cleaner :) Seems like going from the discriminator helps... Not to say it was bad before... Mark KC7DMF --- Original Message ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------- On my 3 repeaters I am getting receive audio directly from the output pin of the detector IC chip and I have no problems, all setup worked exactly as described in the documentation. All TT from all brands of radio all work perfectly. A friend has a repeater that is getting output from a connector on the back of the radio that says discriminator audio out, but looking at the schematic I can see that there are lots of circuits and filters in the line between the detector IC and that output. For his system none of the setup steps worked correctly and we have to just get it as close as we could manually. For that system TT's only work from a very few radios and not at all from some and intermittently for others. I would suspect that you are not getting direct enough unfiltered audio, or you did not follow the setup procedure exactly. There is no CTCSS decode when using the RTCM's. The radio must have a hardware CTCSS that sends a logic level CTCSS detected signal to the RTCM. Or just use carrier squelch that is in the RTCM firmware and works only if you get good unfiltered discriminator audio. I highly recommend getting rid of these lines thresholds = 255,110=5 linger=6 thresholds = 255,110=5 linger=10 Everything works better without them IMHO. It is a good idea to start with a big value for buflen to start with and only trim it down after everything else is working well. If it is all working but you do not like the squelch close action, then I have alternate firmware to fix that issue. Chuck, WB9UUS, CCIE2285 "Got Root?" How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb? *None. It's a hardware problem.* Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it's friends are. WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers. A ntennas P oorly P laced L acks E ngineering The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s². *"I get paid to support Windows, I use Linux to get work done."* On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Chuck Henderson < rpt2(a)chuck.midlandsnetworking.com> wrote: > On my 3 repeaters I am getting receive audio directly from the output pin > of the detector IC chip and I have no problems, all setup worked exactly as > described in the documentation. All TT from all brands of radio all work > perfectly. > A friend has a repeater that is getting output from a connector on the > back of the radio that says discriminator audio out, but looking at the > schematic I can see that there are lots of circuits and filters in the line > between the detector IC and that output. For his system none of the setup > steps worked correctly and we have to just get it as close as we could > manually. For that system TT's only work from a very few radios and not at > all from some and intermittently for others. > > I would suspect that you are not getting direct enough unfiltered audio, > or you did not follow the setup procedure exactly. > > There is no CTCSS decode when using the RTCM's. The radio must have a > hardware CTCSS that sends a logic level CTCSS detected signal to the RTCM. > > Or just use carrier squelch that is in the RTCM firmware and works only if > you get good unfiltered discriminator audio. > > I highly recommend getting rid of these lines > thresholds = 255,110=5 > linger=6 > thresholds = 255,110=5 > linger=10 > > Everything works better without them IMHO. > > It is a good idea to start with a big value for buflen to start with and > only trim it down after everything else is working well. > > If it is all working but you do not like the squelch close action, then I > have alternate firmware to fix that issue. > > Chuck, WB9UUS, CCIE2285 > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Mark Johnston <markjohnston73(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> No idea how it got fixed other then multiple reboots later - no PL being >> heard now that is great! >> two other issues I have with the voter modules (RTCM) can those devices >> or can the allstar/asterisk do >> CTCSS on rx, I see it can do it on TX but I want it to be my tone decoder >> - Just seems odd if they cannot >> since it would for a USB device why not here? >> >> Two, for some reason one radio I have Wouxun the DTMF digits do not work >> except the 9 when watching the >> asterisk -r .... except sometimes if I hold each digit for 2-3 seconds >> then it does. Is there a setting I can adjust? >> As far as I can tell by the config and listening to my signal levels >> sound about right/proper deviation etc. >> The Baofang works 100% of the time with the briefest of key presses even >> if I tweak the rx a bit. When I monitor >> the output from the wouxun through the node the tones sound distorted - >> from the baofang they sound clean. >> Maybe it's the radio? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Mark >> >> KC7DMF >> >> >> "Got Root?" >> >> How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb? >> *None. It's a hardware problem.* >> >> >> Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it's friends >> are. >> WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System >> MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools >> Teenagers. >> >> >> A ntennas >> P oorly >> P laced >> L acks >> E ngineering >> >> The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s². >> >> *"I get paid to support Windows, I use Linux to get work done."* >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Mark Johnston <markjohnston73(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Trying to setup 2 RTCM's for voting - starting off with 1 for the master >>> timing source - no Radio. >>> and one currently at the same site for testing purposes, both have GPS >>> configured & working. >>> >>> The radio is a GE Mastr II base - I located a point where the CTCSS >>> decoder gets the discriminator audio >>> and removed the board for CTCSS decode. Plugged in the audio to the RTCM >>> there. >>> >>> I do hear the audio, but am having multiple issues, first audio sounds >>> OK locally (repeat) but the biggest >>> issue there is the PL is loud and plfilter = y in the voter.conf appears >>> to do nothing for that. >>> >>> Second issue I am not seeing a way to decode PL either in the RTCM or in >>> asterisk from a voter. >>> I know with usbradio/simplusb it has the option but from what I know >>> those are not going to do anything here? >>> >>> also during the RTCM setup the SQ adjustment appears to calibrate go >>> from flashing to solid on the LD3 indicator. >>> but when adjusting the SQ pot 10 , 50 , or 150 turns does nothing to >>> extinguish the LD3 as it should, unless I am >>> misunderstanding the directions - does not make sense. Anyone know if >>> there is something I could be missing? >>> >>> below are the rpt.conf (partial) and voter.conf files >>> >>> rpt.conf ---- >>> >>> [28344] ; Change this to your assigned >>> node number >>> rxchannel=voter/28344 >>> duplex=2 >>> ;erxgain=-3 >>> ;etxgain=3 >>> ;controlstates=controlstates >>> scheduler=schedule28344 >>> morse=morse28344 >>> macro=macro28344 >>> functions=functions28344 >>> phone_functions=functions28344 >>> link_functions=functions28344 >>> telemetry=telemetry >>> wait_times=wait-times >>> context = radio >>> callerid = "Repeater" <0000000000> >>> idrecording = |iKC7DMF >>> accountcode=RADIO >>> hangtime=100 >>> althangtime=100 >>> totime=530000 >>> idtime=540000 >>> politeid=3000 >>> idtalkover=|iKC7DMF >>> unlinkedct=ct2 >>> ;discpgm=yourdisconnectprogram >>> ;lnkactenable=0 >>> ;lnkacttime=1800 >>> ;lnkactmacro=*52 >>> ;lnkacttimerwarn=30seconds >>> ;remote_inact_timeout=1800 >>> ;remote_timeout=3600 >>> nounkeyct=0 >>> ;holdofftelem=0 >>> beaconing=0 >>> linktolink=yes >>> telemdefault=2 >>> propagate_dtmf = yes >>> propagate_phonedtmf = yes >>> >>> ; >>> ; *** Status Reporting *** >>> >>> ###### >>> >>> >>> /etc/asterisk/voter.conf >>> >>> ;[general] >>> >>> port = 667 >>> buflen = 500 >>> password = pwblah >>> >>> [28344] >>> >>> 1306 = pw1blah,master >>> plfilter = y >>> thresholds = 255,110=5 >>> linger=6 >>> 1300 = pw2blah,transmit >>> plfilter = y >>> thresholds = 255,110=5 >>> linger=10 >>> >>> ##### >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Mark KC7DMF >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> App_rpt-users mailing list >> App_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org >> http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users >> >> To unsubscribe from this list please visit >> http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll >> down to the bottom of the page. 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Experimenting with loading Asterisk w/o using ACID CD
by Bob 12 May '14

12 May '14

I ran an experiment this weekend building a new server, and have some questions. I could not get the computer BIOS to boot with a basic network interface, so began with CentOS 5.10 DVD, which installs the drivers. (The ACID CD could not see the network when attempting to download phase1.sh.) I then used the scripts from the ACID CD to install Asterisk/app_rpt. I manually downloaded and phase1.sh (using parts of ks.cfg on the command line), and made the script executable, then went from there to complete the "ACID" install. It worked great as a method to get past the lack of initial network driver, and the node is registered on Allstarlink.org. I have a couple of issues. 1) The new boot gives me a fail for ip6table load. The CentOS 5.10 did not have this error on reboot after the load. It only occurs after "completing the load" with the ACID scripts. How is this used in ACID, and is it necessary? Is it used for security setup? 2) The build has the same issue with not being able to comm correctly with the URI as I've had with other computers where the chipset and build are not compatible. I did not check the compatibility with the CentOS 5.10 build before the "ACID" install. I use the uridiag program to determine compatibility (asterisk off). I'm thinking of attempting this with CentOS 6.5, but suspect the overwrite from executing the ACID scripts, which download Asterisk updates, with not be compatible. I'm wondering if I can go directly from CentOS 5.10, or 6.5 using the astinstall.sh script Any suggestions? Still a Linux newbie sorting out his options. Thanks, r/Bob kk6ecm

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code 1
by Russ WL7LP 11 May '14

11 May '14

Howdy Folks, My allstar box has been down for a few months due to not having Internet connection. I got internet back finally and I just fired it up my allstar box today it has my node 29332 and 29265 in it. once it boots up, I get Asterisk end with exit status 1 Asterisk died with code 1 Automatically restarting Asterisk mpg123: no process killed that will keep repeating over and over until I shut the machine off. can someone tell me why this is doing this. the system was running fine before the internet was lost 73 Russ WL7LP

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Frogs
by David Osborn 10 May '14

10 May '14

Just typed this at my AllStar CLI: bride*CLI> frog 2 ... and got this result: "A frog in a blender with a base diameter of 3 inches going 601114350787.189575 RPM will be travelling at warp factor 2.000000, based upon the Jacobsen Frog Corollary." Some questions: 1. Does this apply to just any old frog, or is there a specific type in mind. (African or European frogs, perhaps) 2. With the blender whizzing at 600 trillion RPM, how long would the bearings last? 3. Errrmmm - why (does app_rpt have such a calculation)?? 4. Duuuude - What's your favourite colour? J

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Allstar on the BBB
by Doug Crompton 10 May '14

10 May '14

I know there are a number of people out there waiting patiently for the BBB Allstar image so they can play with their newly acquired BBB's. I am happy to report that the answer is very soon, probably early next week. There were a few issues mostly not related to Allstar that had to be worked out. One was a boot issue that appears to be resolved. I have created a web page with instructions and the image will be downloaded from there. I expect to release this to a selected test group tomorrow or the next day for initial testing before I publicize the download page. So the answer is very soon! Thank you for your patience. 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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