Sorry for writing a book. It’s go time!

Thanks for the reply, Tim. I ordered a RTCM yesterday. We have three repeaters that we could vote but we think it better to continue using our RC-210’s. The resale value on them is so low that we’d be throwing away over $1k. There are benefits on both sides of the question. We CAN get wi-fi to one site but not others and none of them inexpensively. We figure that we’ll reuse the frequency pair with GPS to sync the transmitters (something I’ve never done before,) lower the TX power so that two repeaters don’t crash into one another but instead pleasantly overlap, and then let users choose which repeater they want to come in on.

I’d love full time voting and we may get there one day. The biggest problem we have being in southern California is that all the hilltops are equally able to hear bases and mobiles and to some extent HT’s. We are already coordinated on three of the four sites in question. We want guaranteed coverage in the event of a regional emergency, like another earthquake in Northridge. The ease by which we can telephone the RC-210 and unlink that site is important. The trick as I have been warned is avoiding conflicting DTMF. As I see it by telephoning the controller instead of OTR we might avoid these conflicts. Additionally, our 900MHz system will serve as our back-up linking. We can still communicate with any site using 900MHz. I don’t want to sell the RTCM short since I haven’t even used one yet. But we have weather receivers, link repeaters

With this said, in an emergency situation, like the Big One hitting southern California, we will be delinking all repeaters. Allstar will not be needed during this event. Does it make sense having a RTCM on each repeater rather than just one RTCM on the primary repeater? The others will get theirs over the link anyway.

Lastly, my boss owns an internet company and the server has been donated and will be placed in the data center with 100Mbps throughput 24/7/365. The server will be a dual processor AMD 248 single core with 4GB of RAM and RAID 5. I believe in giving back and will gladly share with others. Will I able to offer to others? As well, I can either have a dedicated server but my preference is a dedicated VPS using CentOS 6.x. They backup all servers nightly and using Virtuozzo (part of Parallels Plesk environment; we load Virtuozzo 4.7x and then Plesk on top of the container.) The advantage is that if we have a hardware failure our node may be migrated to another node in their server farm. If it is a catastrophic failure they can restore from a recent backup. I even have an app on my phone that allows me to control and even reboot the server.

Virtuozzo automatically installs its own template of CentOS and some packages are missing, etc. Many are added back, like PHP and mySQLi and most of the CentOS distro. How then can I load Acid and configure it in a Virtuozzo environment? We may even load Plesk 12 on top of the node considering the horsepower that it has. Is there a list of files that I will need to get onto the VPS as well as RPM’s or packages required by Allstar?

From: Tim Sawyer [mailto:tim.sawyer@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 6:51 AM
To: Wayne
Cc: app_rpt mailing list
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Using an Intermediate Repeater

Yes, the RTCM could be wired to the ground end 900MHz radio, full duplex of course. Too bad you can’t get WiFi to your site, but ya do what ya gota do.

Tim WD6AWP

On Aug 31, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Wayne <wayne@anywherehost.net> wrote:

I have finally ordered our first of four RTCM’s – progress!

We are having difficulty getting wi-fi to our remote repeater site. I am wondering if we may do the following:

Our repeater is VHF. We have a 900MHz full duplex link pair. W4e have a RC-210 controller controlling the repeater and the 900MHz is on port 3.

Can we wire the RTCM to a full duplex (or even semi-duplex) transceiver to get Allstar to the VHF machine?

Thank you.

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