Hi all, Honestly, I consider it closest to being a repeater, though that doesn't help with the legality. I wonder if there would still be value in having it behave more like a beacon (one way periodic TX), even if that means it would only be up on 10 meters and above.
Thanks, -Mooneer K6AQ On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 7:33 PM David Tiller <dtil...@davidtiller.com> wrote: > > *Thus far, in the last five years, you Gary have been the only **one > who's asked.* > > That might be because running an automatically controlled voice parrot in > the HF bands is legally murky here, unfortunately. I'd love to help out but > I don't think it's kosher in the US. > > Although, looking at the definition of a repeater from Part 97: > > " Repeater. An amateur station that *simultaneously* retransmits the > transmission of another amateur station on a *different channel or > channels*." > > There are 2 points that stick out - simultaneously and 'different > channel'. Your parrot does neither of these. Humm. > > How about an automatically-controlled digital station? Unless your > emission is classified as RTTY or data, no joy. > > § 97.221 Automatically controlled digital station. > (a) This rule section does not apply to an auxiliary station, a beacon > station, a repeater station, an earth station, a space station, or a space > telecommand station. > > (b) A station may be automatically controlled while transmitting a *RTTY > or data emission* on the 6 m or shorter wavelength bands, and on the > 28.120– 28.189 MHz, 24.925–24.930 MHz, 21.090– 21.100 MHz, 18.105–18.110 > MHz, 14.0950– 14.0995 MHz, 14.1005–14.112 MHz, 10.140– 10.150 MHz, > 7.100–7.105 MHz, or 3.585– 3.600 MHz segments. > > (c) A station may be automatically controlled while transmitting a *RTTY > or data emission* on any other frequency authorized for such emission > types provided that: > (1) The station is responding to interrogation by a station under > local or remote control; and > (2) No transmission from the automatically controlled station > occupies a bandwidth of more than 500 Hz. > > > On Feb 22, 2022, at 7:09 PM, Al Beard <bear...@unixservice.com.au> wrote: > > *Hi Gary and all,* > > *I've been building computer systems since the '80s. So, it's not hard for > me.* > > *David VK5DGR supplied the "freebeacon" "C" sourcecode way back in the* > *development of Codec2. A test piece of software, a "reverse beacon", to > "listen" * > *for a Codec2 signal and report on it's bit error rate and transmit that > back* > *in the text part of a transmission. And also a second piece of software > to * > *use the API (library) and thus check for bugs.* > > *I have no problem using the "C" compiler on Linux computers either PC* > *or the Raspberry Pi and similar ARM based Small Board Computers.* > > *Here I use a Banana Pi M2 Berry because it has a SATA port on which is* > *an SSD. This keeps my power bill down (for this project). Just about* > *any audio interface that can do a samplerate of 8000 samples per sec.* > *And, any PTT interface, I use a USB serial port and DTR.* > > *A "ready to go" SD card image can readily be made if there's sufficient * > *interest. Thus far, in the last five years, you Gary have been the only* > *one who's asked.* > > 73 > > Alan VK2ZIW > > *On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 01:20:14 -0500, Gary Kohtala - K7EK via > Freetel-codec2 wrote* > > Alan, > > > > Please refresh our memory as to how one goes about setting up a > FreeBeacon. Seems that I looked into it early on but passed as it was > beyond my abilities at the time. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Gary, K7EK > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > Alan VK2ZIW > Before the Big Bang, God, Sela. > OpenWebMail 2.53, nothing in the cloud. > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 >
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