Jim,
Thanks once again for the input help
As it stands tonight the repeater is operational after 5 hours at site
setting up the audio again problem is the base station we use is not that
forgiving with is comes to audio levels (Nokia BSR 150)
On the older Zetron panel which was the basic 38 I could go onto the board
do further adjustment although the newer 38A does not have any pots to adjust
so out with the resister box a good set of ears
As the station ID it has settled down to every 15 minutes although the Morse
is going out at around 22 words a minute, awaiting call back from Zetron to see
if I can adjust the timer speed on this apart from using the enabled user
number
Get on very well with Zetron here in the UK as used to use them with my last
company so when it comes to support manuals they are very happy to help me
out ( I aways have them laughing on the phone when I call so I have never been
forgotten even there operator knows me by first name before saying who I am)
Awaiting a call back email from Jose at tech support, one thing I did find
out is there are hidden menus passwords so once I get that information I will
pass it on to yourself.
Jim I would rather leave the Zetron on site as we have major problems with
transients like the site goes onto generator during working hour the back onto
the grid after with has caused endless problems which I think was the main
cause of the original logic (RC210) going u/s least the Zetron would cope well
In all the year of looking after commercial repeater sites I have not had one
go down yet
Right time for bed here so better move
PS For you information the repeater is GB3FF it does run on echo-link but
just moved home so awaiting the antenna to go up so off line just now oh if
you fancy having a look at the set up www.csfmg.com it will give you an idea on
how things run here in Scotland
Many thanks once again Jim your help is much appreciated
Best Regards
Al
Jim Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Al, I would program the Z38A the way you have with one change. I
am sure the system ID should be the same as the user ID, so instead of
assigning the system ID to an unused user ID, I would use the user ID as the
system ID. Just enter the user number for the tone you are using for normal
user use in the system ID and that should work.
I have had no case of the ID going away completely like you mention. I have
never used the system ID except for long enough to see that it caused an ID
every interval entered for the ID. The user ID runs at the end of the first
transmission the user makes and will not run again until the ID interval
expires. There will be no user ID after the ID timer for the user expires,
only after the end of the next transmission the user makes.
If you wanted to identify each user on the system, I guess you could assign a
different tone access to each user and then enable the DTMF user ID at the end
of each transmission. If you had a DTMF readout on a receiver listening to the
repeater, you could identify each user that way. I don't remember if you could
assign a different ID interval to the system ID from the user ID, but at the
end of the first transmission a user makes, you could send his CW ID and have
him identified each time he starts a session on the repeater and every ID
interval after that.
The first thing I did on setting up my Z38As was to go through the manual I
found at the repeater-builders site (courtesy Eric Lemmon) and verify each
command that my unit will respond to. I found that the manual was for a later
model Z38A than the ones I have, and my units respond to a sub-set of the
commands found in the manual. In particular, my units will not operate open
squelch, you must have a tone to get into them. The later model units will
allow you to enable user 0 and have the repeater operate with just the COR
input and no tone.
I have never considered using the individual user ID in an amateur radio
application. I just entered the repeater callsign in each tone frequency I
enabled. The reason we even have more than one tone enabled is to allow
different uses of the repeater. Normal operation requires one tone, while
operation of the EchoLink interface requires a different tone. And special use
of the repeater for Search and Rescue operations uses a third tone so that the
operating time for this mode can be reported as verified emergency operations
to our site sponsor. We have a requirement at one site to report all emergency
operations to help validate the need for the site, and the power it consumes.
By the way, the ID is transmitted with a tone when it is enabled, so for the
EchoLink tone we disable the ID in the Z38A for that tone and let EchoLink ID
the repeater when that mode is in use. This prevents the ID from being
