[arm-allstar] Very low audio.

Tue Apr 2 11:15:00 EDT 2019

Brian,

 I will send you a private message regarding vendors....

*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:11 AM B Harvey <bharveytwo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doug,
>
>      I've never had the PLTone problem either. I'll try the mod that you
> suggested to Fred in the next few days. Looking at the URI schematic, I can
> see that the voltage divider resistor values may be a bit drastic and could
> account for the problems that Fred and I have encountered. The trouble is,
> if it works, you may have just ruined my justifying buying a new Alinco
> radio ;-).
>
>     Also, you mentioned that the URI might not be the best choice in and
> USB device at least in the near future. I've got one I'm using now but what
> else would you recommend? As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm putting
> together a radioless node as well. I'll have a URI to use in one project
> but would need another FOB to get them both up and running. The radioless
> node might be a good choice for "the shack"
>
>
> Brian / KK6DOQ
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 9:03 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> The Baofengs are actually very good radios to use for short haul. They
>> work
>> well and have good audio when used as a node. The PL works fine so I am
>> not
>> sure what your issue was with that. You need to program them with chirp.
>> Don't fool around with front panel programming it will drive you nuts!
>>
>>
>> *73 Doug*
>>
>> *WA3DSP*
>>
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:00 AM "Fred C. via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Brian,
>> >
>> > I hope this trick will work for you. I think you are right to aim at a
>> > better radio than the baofeng. These radios are ok when you want to do
>> > casual work, but they are a little to cheap for something more serious.
>> For
>> > example I programmed the squelch tone on my baofeng to 136.5Hz but I can
>> > open it by sending down to 127.3Hz or up to 146.2Hz. I might get an old
>> > Motorola from eBay soon.
>> >
>> >
>> > Good luck, Brian on your node.
>> >
>> > -fred-
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Apr 1, 2019, at 8:09 PM, B Harvey <bharveytwo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Fred,
>> > >
>> > >    Well, I can't really say I'm GLAD your having similar problems but
>> > ours seem to have a lot in common. With regard to the DTMF tones, I
>> could
>> > never connect or get my node to respond to commands, When I viewed the
>> > results of my DTMF commands in CLI, there were several tones (Those
>> > associated with 3, 6 and 9) that wouldn't get decoded. Raising the audio
>> > level helped with the decode but my node still wouldn't respond to the
>> > commands. That's when I found that my deviation was still too low.
>> > Estimating the scale on the live deviation menu, I suspect I was getting
>> > about 500hz before changing the levels and about 2500khz afterword. So,
>> I
>> > think I'm still too low. Too for for this evening but I think I'll give
>> > Doug's recommendation and try and re-route my audio to pin 9. Hopefully
>> > It'll work for me too.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Brian / KK6DOQ
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 4:31 PM Fred C. <w6bsd at bsdworld.org <mailto:
>> > w6bsd at bsdworld.org>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi Brian,
>> > >
>> > > I am not playing an April’s fool joke unfortunately. This would mean
>> > that my problem will be gone my itself tomorrow.
>> > >
>> > > You are describing the exact same problem I have. I made sure the
>> radio
>> > is not running in narrow mode. I event checked again because I am at a
>> > point where I doubt everything now. I have tried to remove the resistor.
>> > The only thing I am getting a a crappier audio but not louder. I am sure
>> > what is on hamvoip is working, but like you said, there is a subtile
>> > difference between our radio and theirs or I missed something so obvious
>> > that I can’t see it.
>> > >
>> > > Oh one interesting info, please tell me if you have the same behavior.
>> > All the DTMF codes are working fine for me. I can connect disconnect,
>> get a
>> > status, etc, etc.
>> > >
>> > > -fred-
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> On Apr 1, 2019, at 4:05 PM, B Harvey <bharveytwo at gmail.com <mailto:
>> > bharveytwo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Fred,
>> > >>
>> > >>    I just ran through this very setup and suffered the same problem.
>> > Although many suggestions were given, nothing worked. It was suggested,
>> > that perhaps the radio will not function in wide band mode and I'm
>> inclined
>> > to believe that is the case. I can assume that it worked for the person
>> who
>> > developed the "How To" on the Hamvoip website but perhaps they had a
>> > different revision of the UV 82 radio. I even went so far as to remove
>> the
>> > 4.7Kohm resistor in line with the receive line of the URI but it didn't
>> > help. I could never even reach the 3khz mark on the deviation test menu
>> > page. I'm now in the process of building a radioless node just to test
>> my
>> > URI since I have the parts on hand. If that works, I'll go a different
>> > route with a radio. In all likelihood I'll use an Alinco DR 435 as this
>> one
>> > is know to work well and not suffer long term ill effects. You posting
>> with
>> > this problem almost makes me think I'm getting played the "April Fool"
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Brian / KK6DOQ
>> > >>
>> > >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:49 PM "Fred C. via ARM-allstar" <
>> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org <mailto:arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Hi everyone,
>> > >>
>> > >> I am new to AllStar and new to that mailing list and I might ask a
>> > question that has been answered server time. I haven’t found the answer
>> to
>> > my problem tho.
>> > >>
>> > >> I have installed hamvoip, on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, I am using the URI
>> > made by DMK Engineering and a Baofeng UV-82, with the mods found on the
>> > hamvoip website. Everything seems to be working ok besides my low, very
>> low
>> > audio. People I am talking with can barely hear me. On the receive
>> > everything is fine.
>> > >>
>> > >> I have tried all the obvious things I could find on the internet, but
>> > nothing seems to be working. I have played with simple_usb_tune. The RX
>> > Boost Mode is on (1), my Rx Voice Level is set to 999. I have checked
>> the
>> > alsamixer and the microphone input is all the way up. I have even try to
>> > remove the 4.7kΩ resistor on the DB25 connector and don’t get any
>> > improvements.
>> > >>
>> > >> I was wondering if someone had encountered this problem before or if
>> > something had an idea that I haven’t explored yet.
>> > >>
>> > >> 73,
>> > >>
>> > >> -fred-
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Fred C. (070 #2569)
>> > >> w6bsd at bsdworld.org <mailto:w6bsd at bsdworld.org> <mailto:
>> > w6bsd at bsdworld.org <mailto:w6bsd at bsdworld.org>>
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>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
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