node 2091 has up and operating for 15 days. So far, so good. Its in a pretty heavy UHF RF environment at a tower site in the middle of a corn field. I will let you know when a year has gone by.. LOL But overall it is working and sounding great. Don W9DRR
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:17:17 -0800 From: markhagler@gmail.com To: app_rpt@lists.illiana.net Subject: [App_rpt] USB interface reliability
Hello all,
I am building up a repeater to put on the air in Seattle as our first All Star node. I have the single-radio analog board which connects to my existing FXS card already but I don't want to put that up on top of a building in the long run.
I'm curious if the cheap USB audio adapters (such as the one that computergeeks sells for something like $8) are a good long-term, reliable solution. I'm interested to hear from others running repeaters in good repeater sites that are using the USB ports, particularly those with repeaters in commercial or high-density sites where strong RF fields from other transmitters are common.
The 4-port PCI card is certainly an option but given the price difference I would really like to make an attempt at the USB interface first but would like some advice of others on the stability/reliability of it. It won't be suitable for me if it's at all problematic as visiting this repeater site is not something I can do regularly.
Thanks
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