Has anybody heard of DireWolf, the sound card AFSK packet linux software? I like it because there is a config file for PTT, so you can set it to anything, a GPIO pin on a raspberry pi, a CM108 pin 13 using hamlib and rigctld, and much more. It works with any sound card. It would be nice if AllStar was like that. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:40 PM, David McGough <kb4fxc@inttek.net> wrote:
Steve,
The CM108/CM119 is nowhere near dead! Even if CM stops manufacture, there will be decent "clones" of it for years to come. No worries about that!
If you're needing some FOBs, I understand the shipping issues you've got, being in NZ. I just checked the US Postal Service shipping site and a "First Class Mail International Large Envelope" is under $20USD for 2 lbs., shipped from the USA to NZ. Priority mail, where you could ship a small box in under a week, starts at about $64USD. See:
https://ircalc.usps.com/?country=10324
Why not just work a "bulk quantity" deal with Kevin or Scott to sell you and ship you a hand full of their RIM-lite adapters??? Then, you'll in good shape for now.
http://www.repeater-builder.com/products/usb-rim-lite.html
73, David KB4FXC
On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Steve Wright wrote:
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
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