David T, Have you not read the sourcecode of "freebeacon", it already does this.
My "freebeacon" is not itself, on the internet. And, haven't you noticed, I post here the location of the Activity Day recordings!! Alan VK2ZIW On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:17:55 -0500, David Tiller wrote > Mooneer, > > How about a version that passively listens and posts the details of what it > hears on a website? > > Another answer would be to have it reply in a narrowband data mode to make it > compliant with 97.221(c). Does CW count as digital? > > On Feb 23, 2022, at 01:26, Mooneer Salem <moon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 stationthat simultaneously retransmits thetransmission > 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 applyto 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 automaticallycontrolled while transmitting a RTTYor data > emission on the 6 m or shorterwavelength bands, and on the > [UTF-8?]28.120â28.189 MHz, [UTF-8?]24.925â24.930 MHz, > [UTF-8?]21.090â21.100 MHz, [UTF-8?]18.105â18.110 MHz, > [UTF-8?]14.0950â14.0995 MHz, [UTF-8?]14.1005â14.112 MHz, > [UTF-8?]10.140â10.150 MHz, [UTF-8?]7.100â7.105 MHz, or > [UTF-8?]3.585â3.600 MHz segments. > > (c) A station may be automaticallycontrolled while transmitting a RTTYor data > emission on any other frequency authorized for such emissiontypes 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 > abandwidth 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > --------------------------------------------------- Alan VK2ZIW Before the Big Bang, God, Sela. OpenWebMail 2.53, nothing in the cloud.
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