* On 2020 26 Jun 13:28 -0500, "Chris Smart via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> nate!
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> Thanks so much for that long, detailed response and all the help.
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> I'm saving this post.
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> The Shari is looking like it will be my Linux gateway drug HI HI.
It's like amateur radio, we all learn from each other.
> One quick question about that number at the start of the line that calls the
> script to announce time. Can I specify two numbers there, to announce at
> the top and bottom of each hour? Something like 00-30?
That would be a range that would fire the script each minute from 00 to
30 or 31 times each hour! 00,30 should do as you want and run the
script at the top and bottom of each hour.
Too frequent voice announcements will probably be irritating to users of
a repeater but on a simplex frequency it probably won't bother too many
others.
That said, I am considering making up several announcement files and
then write a script that selects one at random each time it runs around
the bottom of the hour. I don't have a long range repeater but I still
might come up with something that makes it a bit more random than every
hour. One thought I have is for the script to choose a number between 1
and 100 and if it is less than 25 play the file (old packet radio hands
will recognize that algorithm).
73, Nate
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