[arm-allstar] MDC1200 selective calls

[Stephen - K1LNX]

Hey David, thanks! I suspected that this might be the case, please do let
me know if you get anywhere with this. It's not a "must have" feature, but
pretty desirable at least ;)

I appreciate your time!

73
Stephen
K1LNX


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:43 AM, David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I haven't tried what you're attempting. However, I wouldn't be
> surprised if you're hitting a limitation in app_rpt---that code is pretty
> basic.
>
> I've got some MDC-1200 capable radios, I'll try to test this and extend
> app_rpt, if needed.
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, "Stephen - K1LNX via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
> > Hoping someone with some experience might be able to confirm if this
> works
> > as expected, or this is a possible bug?
> >
> > I am playing around with MDC and attempting to use it to channel steer a
> > CDM radio. The idea works like this, I have this setup in functions:
> >
> > ; remote base channel selection
> > 831=cmd,/usr/local/sbin/bcd_control_usb_fob.sh 1 1440
> > 832=cmd,/usr/local/sbin/bcd_control_usb_fob.sh 2 1440
> > 833=cmd,/usr/local/sbin/bcd_control_usb_fob.sh 3 1440
> > 834=cmd,/usr/local/sbin/bcd_control_usb_fob.sh 4 1440
> >
> > I mapped these under [mdcmacro]:
> >
> > ; remote base channel selection
> > ; channels are selected using MDC call method
> > C3360-1441=*831         ; CDM channel 1
> > C3360-1442=*832         ; CDM channel 2
> > C3360-1443=*833         ; CDM channel 3
> > C3360-1444=*834         ; CDM channel 4
> >
> > If I send a select call from my radio however, it "sees" it as a status
> > packet, and not a "call" packet:
> >
> > Got MDC-1200 (double-length) packet on node 2335:
> > op: 35, arg: 89, UnitID: 1442
> > ex1: 80, ex2: 15, ex3: 33, ex4: 60
> > Got MDC-1200 data S3360-1442 from local system (2335)
> >
> > I was going off examples to make this work from here (decode):
> >
> > http://docs.allstarlink.org/drupal/node/104
> >
> > example I'm using:
> >
> > CXXXX-YYYY=*something   ; will match unit XXXX calling unit YYYY
> >
> > Should this work as expected? I don't think it will parse correctly
> unless
> > it sees a "C" in the decoded packet.
> >
> > 73
> > Stephen
> > K1LNX
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