[arm-allstar] New HAM need help with DTMF

[David McGough]

....Sounds like radio relax would be a very useful run-time configured 
option, rather than requiring a re-compile. I'll investigate this!


On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Kenneth Grimard wrote:

> 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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