Trying to catch up on the threads of information and now trying to understand the Beagle Board and LOX. So reading along, I find this board is using an ARM DM3730CBP 1GHz processor in the current versions. I find that Pickle Linux is supplying an Asterisk+app_rpt ISO image meant to be written to a 4Gbyte mini SD Card, and that GMK Engineering is selling a LOX board with adapter cables to connect it to the Beagle Board-xM and that this device will connect up to 2 radios. Reading on, there is the RTCM device that is capable of replacing an Asterisk+app_rpt computer at a radio site, but these devices need to connect to a "Hub" Asterisk+app_rpt to be addressable through the AllStar Link Network. Recently WB6NIL has added firmware updates to manage these RTCM devices as a simple repeater controller in the event they lose connection with the "Hub" Asterisk+app_rpt switch controller. So my questions so far are: how much power in watts does the Beagle Board-xM with LOX use on average? how much power in watts does the RTCM use on average? Has anyone compiled a Debian OS with Asterisk+app_rpt for use on the Beagle Board-xM, or is Pickle Linux the only currently available OS solution? Is the current Beagle Board-xM the recommended computer to use, or is another version better supported? Do the Beagle Board users need to have a JTAG device to debug and interface with the system and upgrade uBoot? If so, which JTAG device is recommended? OK, enough with the questions. Given that the RTCM seems to be an attractive solution and the Beagle Boards are supporting up to 2 radios per device with a very elegant solution, I would like to learn as much as I can about these devices and their intended as well as extended uses. I'm not at all competent with the discussion on simulcasting repeaters and nodes, but from what I've read that is not really the scope of these devices, or is there something about simulcast that I've missed in the threads here? 73 and Merry Christmas, Ron - KA7U