Good Afternoon, I'm relatively new to asterisk and app_rpt and see a lot of uses for it. I recently started playing around with ACID on an old computer I have. I have no radio hardware hooked up yet but have been using iaxrpt and hub nodes to experiment and am learning a lot. Since I've got my feet wet I'm now planning a project with two nodes, most likely using a Piconode. One node will be a repeater, the other a remote base. The plan being to connect the two and control the base through the repeater. Instead of a remote base node I am thinking of setting the second as a simplex node. I will be using a Kenwood TM-V71a as the transceiver and am going to write my own control scripts for changing channels, data band side, and other settings. Other than parameter control, which is covered, and login/security, which I don't need, would there be any other advantages of setting it as a remote base node? I guess I haven't really seen info on it, but can another node even connect to a remote base node? That might answer my question right there. My second question is for the repeater node. Is there any way to have two different Rx Active 'states'? One which uses CSQ and only keys the local node, and the other uses CTCSS to key as usual? The reason I ask is if the two nodes are connected and you key the repeater to send DTMF command codes you would also key up the transceiver. I'd also like to be able to use the repeater locally without transmitting on the transceiver but keep it connected. I know I could change it to monitor, but that would still include keying it when sending the command. Thanks, Brett KQ9N