[arm-allstar] Controller Connections

[Justin Reed]

You can buy a 90 day guaranteed MTR2000 and put a slide in MMDVM card in it for around $600 all-up. Sunny Communications for the MTR and N3XCC for the STM32-MTR2K board. You don’t need an MTR3000 to do digital.

Details: http://ks-dmr.net/2019/04/11/introducing-the-stm32-dvm-mtr2k/

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> On Jul 13, 2019, at 10:37 PM, K6ECS Allstar via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Sam. My eye sight worries me now that I am THE technical committee. I'd rather start fresh with a Quantar or a MTR 3000 planning for maybe a digital future. But my wallet says no. I thought wiring was pretty straight forward. Just a normal connection.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: "Sam Skolfield via ARM-allstar"
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:50 PM
> To: ARM Allstar
> Cc: Sam Skolfield
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Controller Connections
> 
> For interfacing node to controller:
> 
> NODE:                           CONTROLLER:
> COS ————————PTT
> PTT ————————COS
> RX AUDIO —————TX AUDIO
> TX AUDIO —————RX AUDIO
> GROUND —————GROUND
> 
> Fob/ radio interface choice doesn’t really matter in this case.
> 
> You don’t need an RTCM.
> 
> As far as interfacing an MSF to your controller, there are loads of great
> articles all over about how to do this, notably the many well-written
> repeater builder articles that come up as the first few results with a
> basic google search.
> 
> Cheers,
> SS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:36 PM "K6ECS Allstar via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
>> Our small Dell GX520’s both failed and maybe just need power supplies.
>> Doesn’t matter. Time to move to PI 3a’s and get with the real world! We’ll
>> still need a Windows computer for accessing the controller settings as
>> needed.
>> 
>> At any rate, how simple is it to wire into an Arcom controller? Just PTT,
>> Ground, RX audio and TX audio? Or does it need to go through an RTCM, which
>> we have. Should I connect one PI to a Link Channel as Allstar and a second
>> for IRLP/EchoLink?
>> 
>> We first need to find the foolproof method of attaching the Arcom to a
>> wonderful MSF 5000 that had a Zetron controller connected and my brilliant
>> Elmer just cut the connections off without noting the wire. He skipped town
>> after first swapping parts from another MSF that he was to “inspect.” I get
>> to start over.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
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