[arm-allstar] New Node On the Air With Questions

[Doug Crompton]

Dave,

 If you are not seeing response or seeing poor or error response from
entered DTMF tones on the client screen the problem is usually always one
of two things. Either your rx level is not set correctly - item 2 on the
simpleusb-tune-menu screen or you do not have deemphasis set correctly.
Again the setting is in simpleusb-tune-menu.

Make sure you check several input radios as it is possible the transmitting
radio has bad DTMF. The Baofengs need a setting as they do not mute the
speaker and it feeds back to the mic. See-

https://kk6jyt.com/sending-accurate-baofeng-dtmf-tones-from-the-uv-5r/





*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:42 PM, "Dave Sheppard via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Good afternoon, all,
>
> After months of procrastination, I've finally gotten my simplex node on the
> air. I successfully connected to Doug's Philly Hub and made a QSO, and also
> checked into the Alaska Morning Net on their node.
>
>
>
> I'm running a Pi3 with the 1.5 image. The node radio is a 220 Motorola
> CDM1550 on minimum power. I have another 1550 (my primary 220 radio with
> the
> antenna on my tower) that I'm using to transmit into the node, also on the
> low power setting.
>
>
>
> The 1.5 image is quite an impressive improvement - thanks to Doug, Dave and
> the rest of the crew for their hard work. When I first tried to get going
> several months back, I was intimidated by the image I tried at the time,
> which was part of my procrastination. After learning a little more, the new
> image made it incredibly simple.
>
>
>
> I did have one odd thing happen which has not reoccurred. I tried to make
> my
> first QSO (happened to be on Doug's node), and a station came back that I
> sounded like "Donald Duck". I immediately disconnected from Doug's node,
> and
> enabled echo mode. Sure enough, I sounded like a fast talking Donald Duck.
> I
> rebooted the Pi, and the problem went away and so far, hasn't returned.
> Anyone ever have this happen?
>
>
>
> Using the CLI client, it appears that my DTMF tones aren't being
> recognized.
> Can someone help with this? I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple.
>
>
>
> Is there a way to prevent hearing node connection announcements other than
> my own? For example, if I'm connected to Doug's node, I'm hearing all the
> announcements of other nodes that come and go from his node.
>
>
>
> Again, great work to all.
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Dave S. W2PAX
>
> Naples, FL
>
> csxtbonevalley AT Comcast DOT net
>
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