At 07:09 PM 6/7/04 -0500, you wrote: > > From: Mike WA6ILQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Radios > >[...] > > > >FWIW, the SAME code definitions are in the referenced PDF. The > > >encoderis even somethng that might be worth writing as a sound > > >card utility, provided the sound card has the requisite transient response > > >and stability. > > > > I'd like to see that as a embedded processor function on a repeater > controller > > add-on card - in the same sense as the RLC-MOT is a add-on card. > > Picture the ability to take a old 160mhz receiver strip - let's say from a > > Motrac - something that would normally be considered as a doorstop. > > Buy a cheap crystal from somewhere on the local weather channel. > > Add this board - call it the Simple-SAME decoder between the audio > > output and the repeater controller input. You instantly have a high > > performance SAME receiver for the cost of the Simple-SAME and a > > crystal. > >I admit I wasn't thinking that far into it -- I was hung up on the >notion of generating SAME codes for the purpose of testing decoders. > >That would be a slick little gadget. Since the SAME codes include EOM >that would allow the repeater to go back to normal operations when the >message ended. I see a need to control warnings coming from the >decoder independently, though; after the horn has blown for a tornado >warning one's users probably wouldn't be any too interested in a severe >T'storm watch. Possibly something like the decoder outputs as one input >to an AND gate with the other being a latch, then all 31 AND gates >feeding into a single OR gate. > >[snip] > >de kg7yy
Actually the CAT Auto product seems, at first reading, to do just what I was looking for. <http://www.catauto.com/wd100.html> Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
