[arm-allstar] rf link to repeater

[Doug Crompton]

Kevin,

 I think what you are trying to do is connect to a repeater remotely. That
is the actual Allstar is not at the repeater site. If that is the case here
is what you need to do.

The Allstar node at your home or remote site from the repeater becomes
nothing more than a user on the repeater. It has to transmit into and
receive from the repeater just like you were using a radio to do that.

Courtesy tones definitely need to be turned off. Otherwise you will be
ping-ponging with the repeater. You may also want to set duplex=0 for less
telemetry going out over the repeater.

This works but it is not the most ideal way for a remote site. In this
scenario the repeater tail and the repeater ID will go out over the Allstar
network. Ideally in this scenario you would want the repeaters output PL to
follow the input PL. That is users on the repeater look to the node like
they are coming directly to it. If you did it this way then the courtesy
tone could be turned back on. The Allstar nodes COS would only respond to
someone keying the repeater and not the repeater itself.

Typically people use these half duplex repeater connections to Allstar when
there is no Internet available at the repeater site. Other alternatives
although more complicated would be to use full duplex between the remote
site and the repeater or use something like a Ubiquity microwave link to
get Internet from some other site to the repeater.

Obviously the most ideal situation would be to have Allstar at the repeater
site and have it actually controlling the repeater.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:24 PM, "Kevin Halton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>
> I am attempting to setup a link to a remote repeater in the area  and so
> far
> have had zero luck. The node is operating without issues as a simplex rf
> node. I change the freq. to the repeater pair and set tone. When I transmit
> from another linked node the audio is heard on the repeater and transmitted
> out via RF, BUT the audio coming back from the repeater never makes it into
> the network back here. So if someone keys the repeater up the nodes
> connected to the network never hear that traffic.I have enc/dec set to
> match
> the repeater, frequency is set correctly. What am I missing?
>
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