Chuck,
I don't have personal experience with the VXR 5000, but if Pin 3 is
flat to the modulator and pin 6 is flat from the discriminator and it
is true FM (no PM), then it may be a good candidate. Just start with
my article and the pinout at http://www.repeater-builder.com/yaesu-vertex-standard/vxr-5000/vxr-5000-repeater-mods.html
-- buy a node adapter (Satoshi or Enicomms) and give it a try, if
the VXRs work out, let us all know, if not, look for something that
will work like the Kenwood TKRs and use the node adapter with that.
Expertise on Node Adapters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmsk_dv_node
Software expertise: http://w9arp.com/hotspot/ , http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcrepeatercontroller
, http://g4ulf.blogspot.com
On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Charles Scott wrote:
Jim:
Interesting. I'm somewhat familiar with the hot spots, but didn't
realize it was going this far. So, if I have this right, what's
needed is the GMSK node adapter board, a repeater, and a computer.
At that point, and with the NI-Star software when that's released,
we would have the same functionality as the Icom repeater,
controller, and gateway computer, right--and then some?
I have two Vertex VXR5000's I could do this with. Neither are narrow-
band right now. I could mod them without too much trouble but I
probably don't have to do that unless I get moved to a narrow pair
assignment. Has anyone used a VXR5000 for this?
Chuck - N8DNX
John D. Hays
Amateur Radio Station K7VE
PO Box 1223
Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: j...@hays.org
