Ron Wright, N9EE
727-376-6575
MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL
No tone, all are welcome.
Nate,
This is how the ICOM repeater controllers and repeaters work. They do
not put out the typical ptt, rx/tx audio, cos, etc...both the controller
and repeaters put out a serial data stream talking to one other with a
cat-5 cable. Embedded in this data is the typical I/O commands. This
essentially locks one to ICOMs equipment.
If one decoded this info and converted to typical I/O then one could use
better RF gear like a MSR2000 with the ICOM controller. The ICOM
controller does offer some added features such as connection to the gate
way which so many in D-Star is wanting. I see the gate way as a very
useful tool.
73, ron, n9ee/r
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:20 AM, wd8chl wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
Not interested in the repeater-just the radios.
I fully expect the repeaters to have an output that indicates valid
signal (a COS-type output). Otherwise it's a waste of components.
