Hi Al, Thank you for the link to your modified Freebeacon code as a repeater. I'm certainly hoping we can get something going like that for our radio club on HF, or maybe also on VHF - I'd love to try and show everyone FreeDV when analogue was poor. I'm a bit behind with all the latest developments on Codec2 having set up Freebeacon and played with FreeDV a few years ago, but I reckon its a good time to remind everyone and myself of the benefits.
David is also interested in bringing Freebeacon up to date and is already looking at an update (acknowledgements to John VK3IC who started the project). In the meantime I've had to divert investigations slightly as my Kenwood TS590SG seemed to keep intermittently dropping the USB connection to the RPi4 running Freebeacon and causing a program hang (issue 1 as originally reported), so I've switched to an Icom IC-7100 for the USB link. However, the Icom really needed CAT PTT control (the Kenwood used VOX). So I've introduced a 'quick-n-dirty' hamlib CAT PTT into my local Freebeacon code. Still looking into the Freebeacon 700D apparent 'no-sync' issue at the moment, 1600 mode is fine. Unfortunately my standard of coding is not up to scratch, so when I later merge a newer Freebeacon into my Hamlib enabled Freebeacon I suspect my effort will be too poor to go back mainstream, (but I'll publish it on my github). I've never used the hamlib API before. Thanks for your support, much appreciated. bob VK4YA
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