On 8/24/2013 4:09 PM, KJ6KO wrote:
Do you need to do it to both ends of the link or only one?
Only one. One thing you may want to consider as you build multiple systems is the concept of a hub (or reflector) and spoke arrangement where you have one allstar node configured as a hub, and use that as the center of your repeater network, where the machines are located on the spokes. This allows you to centralize management of your repeaters as well as ease the consistency and stand-up process (not to mention the flexibility). If you place it on a separate computer, you also reduce the processing overhead; a hub node does no DSP, only routing of the digital signals which is less intensive than decoding, de/pre-emphasizing, and all the attendant folderol to get the signals in and out. It also means, in a well-architected system, that you have one place to go to manage x systems; the repeater nodes do what they have to, and the hub manages who is connected to whom through its own features, capabilities, scripting, and so forth. Asterisk: thinking outside the box for lots of years. And Real Programmers don't write Pascal. Bryan Allstar 27294, 27295, 27673, 27710, 27774, 28254, 28868, etc.