Jim, In asterisk, there are normally many ways to achieve the same thing. Don't make it more complicated if there is no need. Put your phone extensions in the radio control section. If you keep all the local extensions 4 digit and start with the same number, you can do something like this example... exten => 6XXX,1,Dial(sip/${EXTEN},20) ;dial ext on this box exten => 6XXX,2,VoiceMail(${EXTEN}) ;voicemail on noanswer That would be a statement that would cover all 4 digit extensions starting with a 6. my example has a voice-mail rollover. This way you do not need to define every extension.

From any extension you can dial the node number for the node you want to connect to.

But to dial a phone extension from the repeater phone patch, you will need a similar/same line in the [radio] context. ...mike/kb8jnm

Mike,

Thanks for the quick answer..

I have added extensions to the system using a Cisco SPA8000 ATA. When I first configured the ATA and sip.conf I put the two in-shack extensions into the radio-secure context as that seemed logical.. and that did in fact work. I could call the node 27739 and hit the USB interface.

Even that doesn't work now.

I've also tried this..

[in-shack] include => radio-secure exten => 6010,1,Dial(SIP/6010,60,rT) exten => 6020,1,Dial(SIP/6020,60,rT)

The radio-secure context is:

[radio-secure] exten => 27739,1,rpt,27739

Thinking I could dial the 27739 extension from the in-shack contex.. not working...

73, Jim