[arm-allstar] Hamvoip as a repeater controller

[Les Keegan]

I had two Kenwood TKR-series repeaters I was Trustee for a club. Each one was located in a hospital. We wanted to link them together. Now Kenwood had a built in controller in their repeaters that we used strictly for ID. There were other features but I never used them.  

So to kill two birds with one stone I used two Allstar Nodes. I used two RA-35 boards from Master Communications and wired them into the DB-25 on the back of the repeaters and then did a small amount of reprogramming the repeaters to utilize the proper pinout on the DB-25 connector. They provided the linking, the id'ing and the time and temperature.It worked great.  ID happened every 10 minutes and the time and temp at the top of the hour. 

Les Keegan
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> On 04/29/2024 2:29 PM EDT Jed Barton via ARM-allstar <arm-therallstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hey guys.  Hope everyone is doing well.  Alright, so I may take a leap of
> faith here, and try hamvoip as a repeater controller, and would love some
> feedback.  I have a quantar here.  I've always used something like an arcom
> or scom.  So here's my first question, I'm assuming I would adjust pretty
> much everything in rpt.conf when it comes to courtesy tones, IDs, and all
> of that.
> I would assume when I put this in repeater mode, I can make allstar
> connections like normal and all that.
> If anyone can give me some words of wisdom from personal experience, that
> would be great.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jed.n1jbc
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