On 06/07/16 11:44, Kevin Custer wrote:
Soldering a 48 pin LQFP and having it be fake is nothing short of a bad experience. Like Scott, I recently purchased a fair quantity of CM119A's from a top CM distributor. They told us the CM119 and CM119A are now legacy products and the CM119B is current. Unfortunately, the B model doesn't use a crystal and several developers agree that they may not be suitable for digital and analog radio adapter applications. There were still a few hundred CM119A's in the distribution chain as of a few months ago.
If the CM119 is dead, then we should scrap it. I can't really see why we are focussing on that devices' built-in I/O, when we have computing devices such as RPI3 with scads of easily accessible I/O. Linux sound is really well developed - "just works everywhere" I'd say. Why not build or reuse a DSP-based driver for that, that will handle voting - now we are in business with all the toys, for the foreseeable future. Likely a simple CLI config tool could be developed too - choose RX audio device, TX audio device, signalling, save settings, done. Rinse and repeat for three devices. Hardware VOTERs are fine for a single repeater with a few outboard receivers, but way too much money for non-millionaire clubs to convert "everything" to asterisk - they will stick with their IRLP node for sure, and that is a tragedy.. I see a few members here and elsewhere make it their business to put tens of thousands of $$ into communication systems, and that's enviable and laudable, but 90% of constructors don't exist on that rarefied plane. S