[arm-allstar] "Call CQ" Feature for AllStar

[Patrick Perdue]

No. I thought about writing something myself. Connecting to a random 
node in rpt-extnodes would be pretty easy. The hard part is testing to 
make sure any node you attempt to connect to has it's IAX port 
forward-facing.

IRLP also has a feature like this, IIRC.


On 5/8/2021 2:00 PM, "john M. via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With a recent update to EchoLink software, a new feature has been 
> added—“Call CQ”. This is a very nifty feature. More info on the 
> feature can be found at: https://secure.echolink.org/cq.htm
>
> I really like this feature, because it gives folks who do not have 
> access to the HF bands (for whatever reason) the experience of working 
> random stations. This experience is just not the same when done 
> through a hub or reflector.
>
> I am wondering…does a similar feature currently exist in AllStar? If 
> not, would this be a difficult feature to implement in AllStar? 
> Without knowing a lot about the internals of AllStar, I can speculate 
> on how to do this, but do not know if it would work from a technical 
> perspective.
>
> 73,
>