I'm consulting with another ham on setting up a one way VoIP link for a split site VHF repeater, RX and TX to be located about 2 miles apart.
I've got a tenative solution using and off the shelf streaming audio server and client, with a custom app to poll the PC parallel port for any digial signaling that need to be pulled off the reciever and transfered to the controller/transmitter via another custom app that will output to the parallel port. Is there anything out there a little more integrated that can handle the job, or other suggestions as to a solution ?? Prefered environment is Windows, with some hope that a "service app" that will run at boot can be found. 2 way solutions like Echolink and Asterisk have already been rejected, as have any solutions that require hardware beyond a PC with a sound card and parallel port. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nate Duehr To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Scanner as repeater receiver? JOHN MACKEY wrote: > Skipp- > Everything you say below is correct. But I would still argue that it simply > isn't worth it to do all the modifications you suggest to a scanner when you > can pick up a good receiver from a Motrac/Micor/MastrII/MastrPro for $25 at a > hamfest or ebay and have a receiver that is still better than the modified > scanner. Heck, at the hamfest I was at yesterday, there were two Micors already duplexed, a Mastr II already duplexed, and a Mastr Pro sitting in a pile on a table with a sign that said "$25 takes all", if I read it correctly. I looked at the MASTR II -- it was a 66-split (VHF). I assume the others were also, don't know. Didn't check. I didn't need any more VHF stuff... Seller was "Dutch", K0AWS ... if someone wants to try to hunt him down to buy any of it. His club is: http://www.ab0pc.org/ There ya go... a real "guess what I saw at a hamfest" story, but with real follow-up information on who was selling the stuff. Happy gear hunting... Nate WY0X
