[arm-allstar] Check your echolink settings!

[David McGough]

Hi Jim,

The big problem is with the lat, lon, power, height, gain and dir 
parameters.

The default lat and lon are for a location in Pennsylvania. This is 
causing problems in the echolink database, due to a large number of 
numbers who haven't changed the default location. There are several simple 
ways to get your approximate lat / lon..... For example, you can go to: 
https://www.google.com/maps ...Then, navigate to your locations and "right 
click" in the area of your location. The lan, lon should show up at the 
top of the pop-up menu.

The second issue is that the default power and height parameters are 
invalid! the power, height, gain and dir parameters must be single digits, 
0 thru 9, such as found in this chart:

;;; For power, height, gain and dir, use the digits 0 thru 9:
;;;
;;;  DIGITS   0  1  2   3   4   5   6    7    8    9         Equation
;;;  -------------------------------------------------------------------
;;;  POWER    0, 1, 4,  9, 16, 25, 36,  49,  64,  81  watts  SQR(P)
;;;  HEIGHT  10,20,40, 80,160,320,640,1280,2560,5120  feet   LOG2(H/10)
;;;  GAIN     0, 1, 2,  3,  4,  5,  6,   7,   8,   9  dB
;;;  DIR      0,45,90,135,180,225,270, 315, 360,   .  deg    (D/45)
;;;
; power: 25W, height: 80ft, gain: 6dB, dir: 180 deg
;power=5
;height=3
;gain=6
;dir=4


I've updated the default /etc/asterisk/echolink.xxx file to reflect these 
changes...Current echolink users need to confirm their parameters 
currently in use are correct as well.


73, David KB4FXC


On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, "James R. Pilgram via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Aloha David,
> My echolink doesn't have a repeater associated with it but is usually
> connected to my hub which also has no RF so *MUST* is a bit confusing me.
> Care to elaborate?
> 
> 73 & Aloha
> Jim NH6HI
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 06:33 "David McGough via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > It came to my attention this morning that some HamVoIP echolink users are
> > not updating the default station APRS configuration and location info
> > which gets reported to the echolink database.  Here are the DEFAULT
> > setting, as found in the sample echolink configuration:
> >
> > ; Change following setting to your parameters
> > freq=446.1
> > tone=88.5
> > lat=40.223976
> > lon=-75.008529
> > power=20
> > height=50
> > gain=6
> > dir=0
> >
> >
> > These settings *MUST* be updated with the specific configuration and
> > location of you station, not just left as defaults!  If you don't know
> > your physical station latitude (lat) or longitude (lon), a couple
> > sources where you can find that position are via https://www.qrz.com or
> > https://aprs.fi
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > 73, David KB4FXC
> >
> >
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