> My interrest is radio. I'd like to use Asterisk as a N-way audio > switch between a set of ham radios and to act as a "transcoder" between > a few of the ham-oriented VOIP systems like IRLP, Echo Lnk, Wires and > the like.
You know, radio stations pay $5000+ for Evantide units that allow call in show hosts to "dump" callers. It is basically a digital X second delay. If Digum were to make an asterisk distro that just had X number of outside lines, and a controller they could probably rake in a bunch of money by selling a system for handling radio call in programs (and allowing the jocks to "dump" callers that curse before the time runs out. > What got me started was one day I was sailing off the coast of > So. Cailornia and had a shirt pocket sized VHF and could talk to > another ham who has riding a bus in England. Voice was being routed > between fixed land based repeters over the Internet. The system is > not easy to use, like say, a cell phone is. I got to thinking > Why Not? and then stumbled on Asterisk while using Google to > find software that could route audio over IP. Myself and other people that went to "cons" (computer security conventions) were talking about doing an IP based GSM multi-city repeater system. I don't know if you have seen it -- check out ICOM's D-Star system. It is REVOLUTIONARY. 128kbps to the mobile two way radio in vehicles (1.2ghz), raw TCP/IP. Repeaters use 10ghz microwave links or the internet... digital and analog voice. Crazy stuff. But expensive. Ham radio being reborn. > Have you guys looked into the origens of the Zaptel hardware? > The whole idea was to make the hardware design public so anyone > could build and sell it, even a home hobbyist. (Yes you can > build ISA cards with simple hand tools. I've got a few > one-off cards. PCI is harder though) The goal was to drive > down the cost of hardware. http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas00/controller.jpg :-) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users