I have thought Asterisk would make a fine system to do a multi-receive setup... I haven't tried it yet - I realize it would probably work quite well as described here; but how much additional work would it take to use this as "a voter" system, where the transmitter site(s) evaluate the quality of each received signal when multiple receivers are able to hear a station and gate between them ?? Furthermore, what sort of latency issues would creep up in the "gated" audio stream between receive sites - where one site might be 30-60ms (or more) "delayed" on the network and all of the various buffers ?? 73 - Jeremy, KD0EAV Jim Duuuude wrote:

The best thing to do is to look at (architecture-wise) the second receive site as if it were a normal repeater (just missing the transmitter). The controller (computer running the Allstar node) doesnt know the difference (it just *assumes* that you have the tx audio and PTT hooked- up to a transmitter,so dont tell it otherwise ;-) ). So, you can cause the two systems (or any 2 Allstar nodes, for that matter) to be "perma- linked" by having one of the nodes have a startup_macro that invokes a DTMF command to perma-link (ilink 13) it to the other node. They will stay linked as long as there is Internet connectivity between them, and if its lost, will re-establish the connection once its restored (no matter how long that might be).

JIM WB6NIL

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I have a split site repeater, currently 2 receive sites and one transmit site. I would like to place a computer at each site and use these to permanently link the sites. Could someone here please help me get started with a link from one receive site to the transmit site. I will save the second receive site till sometime in the distant future. It seems like this can work but so far I have not been able to find anything that tells how to do it. Is there a how-to somewhere for this type of thing?

Chuck Henderson, WB9UUS