[arm-allstar] Allstar Automated - NWS Weather Alerts & Analogue Repeater Backbones

[Pierre Martel]

Hi John, are you using usbradio or simple usb?
I ask cause I know this work on usbradio

let me explain. the way I fixed that problem with my node is that set up
for the ctcss to stop sending at the same time as the cor input or the
detected cor (with usbrado) go down. so all telemetry are sent without
ctcss. so if your link radio is sending ctcss and your receiving back bone
also use ctcss and can do the same you are in busines

the way to set it is to had itxctcss=1 in the repeater/link stanza in
rpt.conf

Hope this can help you

Pierre
VE2PF


2017-05-17 15:19 GMT-04:00 "John Hoser-Smith via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>:

> This is a bit tricky…
>
> We have an Allstar Node that uses its directly interfaced UHFLink Radio
> into an old fashion FM Repeater Backbone in our Radio club…
>
> Further, this same Allstar Node is also/simultaneouslyconnected to an
> Allstar SERVER/HUB via the Internet.  Other independent Allstar Nodes can
> nowconnect to that same Server/HUB and use their remote Allstar Node Radios
> totalk to anyone using the old fashion Repeater Backbone for our Ham Radio
> club.  Our Allstar Server/HUB has no radio attachedto it.
>
>
> This works the way we want, mostly.
>
>
> What doesn’t work (read: get re-broadcasted) to the FMRepeater Backbone
> are the automated NWS Weather alerts – found and configuredin Doug’s
> Autosky Scripts.  We want folkslistening to the Club’s FM - Repeater
> Backbone to hear those NWS Alerts for ourCounty.
>
> (yes, we have other independent Allstar Nodes running those AutoskyWeather
> alerts just fine)
>
>  We’ve isolated that(no re-broadcast) problem to the entry inside the
> rpt.conf   file for the Node with the UHF Link Radio.
>
> That Allstar Node has set     the     Duplex=0   inside the  rpt.conf
> file.   This works great for normal Repeater and HT use – but prevents the
> NWSAnnouncement from being re-Broadcast.
>
> Now for the tricky part:  Changing the entry in the   rpt.conf   to
> Duplex=2 (from Duplex=0)  solved the problem of “re-broadcasting the
> NWSAlerts” HOWEVER – this Duplex setting keeps “bringing up  and down” the
> entire FM RepeaterBackbone.  A kind of an Audio “ping pong”(key up/key
> down) is heard all over the Repeater Backbone.  Oooops, not what we want.
>
>
> So the question is:   Can we set (how?) the Allstar Node with thedirect
> connection to the UHF Link radio to play the Autosky Weather
> Alerts…withouthaving this “ping-pong” up and down going on, on our Repeater
> Backbone?  Our Club’s Allstar geography spans (3)Counties and we’d like to
> broadcast the NWS Alerts from the Node directly connectedto the FM Repeater
> Backbone.
>
> Your comments/suggestions welcome.  N0ECT
>
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