[arm-allstar] New HAM need help with DTMF

Kenneth Grimard n1dot1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 15:00:40 EST 2015


hi david

here is the thing jim duude would have turned that off in the acid 
source tree
if he felt it was a problem. i would rather have a radio dtmf work then 
not work.

some radio WILL NOT work even if you have the level correct because of this.

ken n1dot



On 7/27/2015 7:51 PM, David McGough wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> I, personally, haven't encounted any cheap HT's where DTMF failed to
> decode with radio relax off--at least if they'd decode at all on any
> system! Almost every case I've seen where DTMF didn't decode could be
> corrected by careful audio level adjustment at the channel driver end.
>
> The problem with leaving radio relax enabled is that there will be very,
> very many false decodes and the cooresponding 20ms audio chop. That gets
> really annoying (to me, at least).
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Kenneth Grimard wrote:
>
>> the reason why i had asked is this. with some of the chinese
>> radio's the dtmf encoder has a very bad problem with excessive twist.
>>
>> i know the reason why they try to eliminate the false decoding
>> but with it off it will cause quite a few radio's to not be able to
>> use the dtmf due to the bad twist between the tones.
>>
>> I have wouxun that has this problem. this will also
>> cause problems with certain yaesu radio's too.
>>
>> i tried on my desktop with it off and it gave me a real problem
>> with it off. a lot of my radio's the dtmf would not work until i turned it
>> back on and re-complied the source code.
>>
>> I may have to do the same with the bbb or the rpi2 images then.
>> i would rather have a little of false decoding then have some of may
>> radio's
>> dtmf pad not work due to bad twist levels.
>>
>> ken n1dot
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/27/2015 7:36 PM, David McGough wrote:
>>> Yes, radio relax is off (not checked in the menu setup).
>>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Kenneth Grimard wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I did have a question about the rpi and bbb images.
>>>> it radio relax turned off in the source code in these images?
>>>>
>>>> ken n1dot
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/27/2015 6:35 PM, Jon Rorke wrote:
>>>>> this line should read: Also maybe set rx boost =1 (yes). if the rx
>>>>> audio is too low then tones wont decode.
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/27/2015 2:23 PM, Jon Rorke wrote:
>>>>>> Check to see if the node is seeing the cor from your radio. If not
>>>>>> then it will not read DTMF.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also maybe set rx boot =1 (yes). if the rx audio is too low then
>>>>>> tones wont decode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/27/2015 2:09 PM, Sam Bonsett wrote:
>>>>>>> Ok I bumped it up to 650 and it works on my Baofeng but does not
>>>>>>> work with my Yaesu FT-60. (might be low battery?)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Will set the duplex to 1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Doug!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Sam Bonsett <bonsett at gmail.com
>>>>>>> <mailto:bonsett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       yes that works but that is how I have been connecting to
>>>>>>>       nodes...  Actually I use this:
>>>>>>>       rpt cmd 42197 ilink 3 42181
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       What I want to do is connect to a node from my HT.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       on HT *342181 should connect me to node 42181 but it does not.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       Sam
>>>>>>>       km4ksr
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Robert Newberry
>>>>>>>       <N1XBM at amsat.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           Try this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           Log into your box.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           Type asterisk -r
>>>>>>>           Then once in CLI type rpt fun (your node number) *342181
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           Where I put parentheses please supply your nodes number
>>>>>>>           without parentheses.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           Tell us if that works!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           N1XBM
>>>>>>>           Apparare Scientor
>>>>>>>           Paratus Communicare
>>>>>>>           Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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