Steve,

 I am not exaclty sure what you want to do but I think you want to monitor and be able to talk on two nets with  them not being connected. If you connect to two nets from on node the two nets are going to be connected and hear each other. If you want to connect to and hear and talk on both nets independently you can create another node under your server. Then connect one node to one net and the other node to the other net. Of course you would need two radios, one connected to each node to monitor and talk but it would be independent. You also could create another server and node on another computer and do the same thing.

What I often do is have several nodes on a server. One node is connected to a radio and that node is considered my primary - where I stay connected or others stay connected to me. Then I use iaxrpt and connect to one of the other nodes on the server and from that node connect to some outside node. Unfortunately you can only have one instance of iaxrpt running per computer so of you wanted to monitor many places simultaneously you would need to open an instance in another computer.

You also do not need a radio locally if you build up a console. A small amplifier and mic. connected to a FOB could be setup to do that eliminating the radio. 

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:03:22 +0000
From: steve@donegan.org
To: doug@crompton.com
CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Basic Allstar repeater question

Thank you Doug a nice succinct answer :-) Not the one I wanted to hear but totally understandable. Now to try and figure out how to connect to multiple nets without connecting them together :-)
 
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Steven Donegan
KK6IVC FCC General Class License
SSCC/NORC Life Member, Car #86
www.sscc.us

From: Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com>
To: Steven Donegan <steve@donegan.org>
Cc: "app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Basic Allstar repeater question

Steve,

 A hub is just a word we give to a node that has two or more nodes connected to it. Kind of a central connecting place. Other than that is has no real meaning in how things work. A hub could be a computer stashed somewhere with good Internet bandwidth if you intend to connect many other nodes to it. It does not need to have a radio connected to it but if you need to it could. You can be creative in how you connect things but anything that is connected together shares audio in both directions. In the case you mention you are correct in that all of you would hear and be able to talk to each other assuming you were in transceive mode (*3 connect) which is the most usual way. I suppose in the simplest definition of a hub, in your case you are the hub! Think of it as the hub of a wheel with spokes. Each spoke is a connection to another node. It gets more complicated than that though as each node you connect to could also be connected to multiple nodes. There is protection for loops. If you connect to somneone who in turn connects to someone else and that last person tries to connect back to you it will be rejected.

I hope that answers your question.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:06:04 +0000
From: steve@donegan.org
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: [App_rpt-users] Basic Allstar repeater question



I have a simple (hopefully) question - if I link my node with 2 other nodes does it become a hub between the two or does the traffic from my node go out to the 2 other nodes and the traffic from those individual nodes come back to my node? If this is configurable behavior (to hub or not to hub) please do explain.

Thanks
____________
Steven Donegan
KK6IVC FCC General Class License
SSCC/NORC Life Member, Car #86
www.sscc.us


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