> 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 station that simultaneously retransmits the transmission
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 apply to 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 automatically controlled while transmitting a RTTY or data
emission on the 6 m or shorter wavelength bands, and on the 28.120– 28.189 MHz,
24.925–24.930 MHz, 21.090– 21.100 MHz, 18.105–18.110 MHz, 14.0950– 14.0995 MHz,
14.1005–14.112 MHz, 10.140– 10.150 MHz, 7.100–7.105 MHz, or 3.585– 3.600 MHz
segments.
(c) A station may be automatically controlled while transmitting a RTTY or data
emission on any other frequency authorized for such emission types 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 a
bandwidth of more than 500 Hz.
> On Feb 22, 2022, at 7:09 PM, Al Beard <[email protected]> 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
> >
>
>
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