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Busy Lockout on simplex node
by Adrian Caldieraro 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

I have just recently got my system up and running and for testing I am using a simplex radio, what I have found is that I cannot PTT the radio whilst it has a busy signal. Is there a way that I can override the busy channel lockout?

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Longley Rice Online Prediction Tool
by Don Russell 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Longley Rice Online tool: http://lrcov.crc.ca/cov.php?lang=en I also use Radio Mobile by VE2DBE: http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html They do agree with each other. I use radio mobile professionally to do path studies, STL links, and to figure out azimuths for some of our remote broadcasts. You can make some great maps of your coverage. -- Don Russell, CBRE W9DRR ARRL OES, Technical Specialist Winnebago County AEC http://www.socialengineer.us --

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Info for New users, working set of configs, and some scripts.
by Don Russell 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Since we have a group of new users around.I Just wanted to share a few little helpers I picked up and some working configs to compare with. Check out the source of app_rpt.c lots of help at the top, most if not all of the commands are documented there. It helped me a lot when I was first getting started. The included tarball has my complete working config files - a couple passwords and pincodes, my crontab, some custom scripts, and the weather scripts I modified from IRLP. W0ANM and Randy KC6HUR wrote them. I hacked them up to work with asterisk. and the Cepstral voice William. I also used William to replace a bunch of asterisk words to keep the repeater audio consistent. No offense to Jim, Steve, and Allison. (Speaking of Allison, I met her at Astricon one year, Freaked me out, I didn't know what she looked like, the door to the elevator opened, this chick at the door said something like "hello, going down?" I started looking around at the speakers in the elevator trying to figure out how someone got Allison to do voice over work for the elevator. then it hit me.. SHE was Allison....LOL) I also included some scripts I use for changing how the repeater functions. they change hang times, Courtesy tones, ID's, and gets the node connected up for weather events. I also have a restore to normal function. It does copy around the /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf so be careful in playing with them. backups are important. As far as my hardware: I am using de-emphasized audio (speaker) and have a COR signal from the receiver going to the FOB. In addition to the caps, I also used 1:1 transformers on the RX/TX audio lines to kill any ground loops. I also put in some ferrite beads on the audio lines, made sure everything was properly grounded, including the usb connector on the fob, that solved a lot of ills with ground loops(hum) on my end. I did change most of the values to make things suit the audio levels I needed. The original fob design was designed for Motorla or other Radios with very hot discriminator audio. My GE wasn't quite that hot, and the ICOM I used for a while was even lower. So feel free to play with them or just put in a pot and trim around at will. My current receiver is a Motorola Astro Saber running in Dual mode IMBE NAC 294/Analog PL 97.4. I took the audio from the speaker mic output through the 1:1, I also took one side of the audio line w/ a pull 2k pull down resistor to the COR pin. works like a charm. A lot of Motorola radios only power on the audio amp when there is proper PL/NAC. both sides of the amp have a floating DC bias that changes when the amp powers on, floating when off, +4.7 when on. I little trick I got from Jim WB6NIL... My previous receiver was an old Uniden that I tapped raw Discriminator and fed the fob via the 1:1 transformer. That also worked pretty good with the DSP mode. Until the person I got the radio from played Indian giver. The transmitter is nothing fancy.. just an old Kenwood G707 mobile being fed from the packet jack (ps2 type) on the back. I do have an Industrial mega CFM fan blowing across the back of the transmitter to keep it cool. So far its doing just fine. My system is not very heavy in traffic. Eventually I want to replace it with something more robust like a spectra or X9000 syntor. If I can get my hands on one cheap. Hope they are useful to some of you. -- Don Russell, CBRE W9DRR ARRL OES, Technical Specialist Winnebago County AEC http://www.socialengineer.us --

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Test version of ACID: testing requested
by Stephen Rodgers 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

There is a a test version of ACID with app_rpt.c version 0.203 available for download from http://dltest.allstarlink.org. This needs testing before we move it over tho the main site. NOTE: You must download the .iso file from dltest.allstarlink.org ad burn a CD. Existing iso's will just get you the currently released version from dl.allstarlink.org Steve WA6ZFT

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How to stop localplay
by Tim Sawyer 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Sorry to post what seems to be such a simplistic question but I can't find the answer. What it the command to stop localplay? -- Tim :wq

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Attention: VK2RCZ (Node 2329)
by David Osborn 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

We at GB3IM (2480/2481) were also connected to 2393 and, by association, into the hub. I didn't do it, and none of my users have been given instructions on how to do it, so it must have been an incoming connection. Sorry if the UK traffic that you were hearing was from here - it was unintended. It's always good to make new contacts, but I have never heard any traffic. As Ramesh points out, the time difference (of 7 hours) comes into play. I have disconnected and will wait to see what happens next :-) 73 David - GD4HOZ

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INFO: Contacting a node sponsor off-list
by Stephen Rodgers 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

To contact a node sponsor off-list, log in to allstarlink,org with your node number and node password, then the callsigns will now be links to email addresses which you can then copy into your mail program. When there are issues between two node sponsors which are best discussed off-list, then this the way to do it. Steve WA6ZFT

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Attention: VK2RCZ (Node 2329)
by Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Please do not connect to the VE3TNK HUB (Node 2200) and bridge across two reflectors (e.g., 2000 and 2200). Please also consider the time difference since you're unlikely to hear activity from North America. We are just waking up here to find many of our linked system (on 2200) occupied with traffic from the UK and VK. The net result is that our repeater systems are occupied with traffic making them unusable for our morning commute. What makes this worse is that you have connected to the hub using a permanent link! Jim / Steve - I am unable to disconnect node 2329 from 2200 using the ilink,11 (presumably the other side does not allow this when in permanent link mode) - if you can confirm this, I'll add it to Mantis. Thanks! Ramesh.

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Request for CTCSS On/Off Function
by Tim Sawyer 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Hi Jim/Steve/Steve, I like to be able to turn receive CTCSS on and off with a cop command. Less importantly, I'd also like to be able to turn the transmit CTCSS on and off. Any chance these could be added? -- Tim :wq

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receive toneburst
by Jim Duuuude 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

New app_rpt version 1.203 now supports receive toneburst (like 1750 Hz for Europe). See the parameter rxburstfreq in rpt.conf (under node). Works with all interfaces, usb, pci, etc.

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