[arm-allstar] ham voip on a Kenwood TKR850 repeater, hoping someone can help

[Lu Vencl]

I have several repeaters attached. Most of them are still running USB radio but I did convert one to simple USB and there’s one thing you must do to prevent the Kenwood from locking up. You need to incorporate a 60 second delay before Allstar starts up because the COS line creates a PPT condition when the repeater boots up after a power failure. If the PTT talk line is held down on power up, the repeater doesn’t come up. It probably goes into some sort of test mode or something.
Send me an email directly if you need some guidance regarding this and I’ll look it up in my rpt.conf file. 
73
KA4EPS


> On Apr 2, 2022, at 9:14 PM, Jed Barton via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey David, that's awesome.  What do you think are the easiest fobs to
> get up and running with a Kenwood, I'll order a few tomorrow.  If we
> could do a plug and play sort of thing, that would rock.
> If you have some ideas, let me know.  Would love to pick your brain on
> USB settings and all that for some nice sounding audio.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jed
> 
>> On 4/2/22, "ve3rwj via ARM-allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> No problem David. I had a good laugh, as I expect, did Jed. 😊
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ARM-allstar <arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org> On Behalf Of "David
>> McGough via ARM-allstar"
>> Sent: April 2, 2022 5:27 PM
>> To: "Chris via ARM-allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>> Cc: David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net>
>> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] ham voip on a Kenwood TKR850 repeater, hoping
>> someone can help
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> Yes, point taken.  The "executive overview" of the photos is that it's
>> basically plug-and-play to get the TKR repeaters working with HamVoIP.
>> This is very easy to do.
>> 
>> 73, David KB4FXC
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, 2 Apr 2022, "Chris via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jed is blind, as are quite a few people on this mailing list I reckon,
>>> so words please, not pictures. OK? 😉🤣
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ARM-allstar <arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org> On Behalf Of "David
>> McGough via ARM-allstar"
>> Sent: April 2, 2022 5:12 PM
>> To: "Jed Barton via ARM-allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>> Cc: David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net>
>> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] ham voip on a Kenwood TKR850 repeater, hoping
>> someone can help
>> 
>> 
>> Jed,
>> 
>> Yes, HamVoIP works very well when used directly as the repeater controller.
>> I have this setup with all my repeaters.  For example, here is are old photo
>> from the Beaglebone Black era, interfaced to a Kenwood TKR repeater.  These
>> days, just use an RPi in place of the BBB.  These are photos of my "bench
>> test" TKR-850 from 2014 (wow how time flies!):
>> 
>> https://hamvoip.org/kenwood-TKR/P1030830.JPG
>> https://hamvoip.org/kenwood-TKR/P1030831.JPG
>> 
>> Are you wanting a "assembly required" USB fob or already build and packaged?
>> 
>> Originally I used DMK URI hardware.  Now, I'm using Master's Communications
>> RL-20 boards for new installations.
>> 
>> I'll take some photos of the latest "evolution," where I'm using RPiZ2W
>> boards, which also work great.
>> 
>> 73, David KB4FXC
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, 2 Apr 2022, "Jed Barton via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Jim,  We were gonna hook the allstar node directly to the kenwood.
>> Anyone on here done that?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jed
>> 
>> 
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