At 09:53 AM 10/23/2010, kb8ude@gmail.com wrote:
That is unfortunate. It also explains why. requests to him for a node number were ignored. Too many times the needs (wants) of the few (one) get in the way of progress.
I got on-board with the app_rpt project because it offered a way to give our users a way to access three different networks cheaply rather than duplicating hardware to achieve the same result. I won't be constructing a new system to fill the gap, that's for sure.
Actually, it could be done on an existing IRLP node in theory. A bit of a kludge, but EchoIRLP interfaces thebridge to existing IRLP software, and so I'm sure Asterisk could be interfaced to the IRLP software in a similar fashion. Not the nicest way to do things, but theoretically possible, and would be IRLP compliant. The AllStar side wouldn't need any hardware, since it would be using the radio/interface that IRLP uses. EchoIRLP, even though it's a bunch of shell scripts is GPL, so feel free to play. :) 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com