Remember em? I am still using em! Dave / NĂ˜ATH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: jistabout 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:15 PM
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: software repeater controller


--- In [email protected], "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For multiple audio ports these days I'd recommend using USB audio
> > devices. ISA slots are way gone and PCI slots aren't far behind. 
For
> > an embedded PC controlling radios 24/7 you want something small, 
quiet
> > and low power, most form factors that fit that description usually
> > have few if any PCI slots.
> 
> A PC controlling a repeater?!?!?! What is the problem of using 
a small 
> microcontroller, with some BASIC programming???
> 
> You are using a cannon to kill a microbe he he he
>

Not at all. Using a PC to control a repeater as complex as the system 
here with remotes etc. is a perfectly logical choice and allows 
nearly unlimited flexability.

The original controller on the system here back in the mid 1980s was 
a Commodore VIC-20 :). Any young'ens remember those?

- Darrell/KA7BTV



 


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