I was thinking more like erector-set. Solid metal, instead of plastic! There is no other way of doing some of the stuff I have my box doing. Asterisk and Linux with that magic app_rpt and the chan_usb just making life possible for my repeater. It wouldn't exist without those tools. I don't think it would be possible with IRLP, especially because of their "rules". My operation was called "illegal" by the IRLP guys and I got kick/banned a couple times because I came in via my sip phone instead of rf. I can't even begin to describe the handiness of being able to use a wifi sip phone and get into my repeater, connect it via echolink or allstar and have a converstation with someone on the other end in RF. Linking repeaters, sip/iax phones in/out, reverse patch, autopatch, cepstral voice for an unlimited number of things, remote base, shell scripts... leaves us only to the limit of our imagination. Thanks again Jim, the Steves', Mark, Scott, and anyone else who has had their hands in the code. -- Don Russell, CBRE Director of IT/Chief Operator - Maverick Media W9DRR - ARRL OES, Technical Specialist Winnebago County AEC http://www.socialengineer.us --