Chris wrote:
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> Is there a repeater controller that I could use to tie an Echolink
> and IRLP together with? One that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
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> Chris KA7CJH
And if you ever actually cross-connect the two networks (ESPECIALLY any
IRLP Reflector channel) without permission of the participating nodes
and/or Reflectors, you can end up with some very cranky people on both
sides.
Most IRLP Reflector operators have policy to not allow system to system
cross-links. Especially if they're not asked first, so they can monitor
and use our built in tools to disconnect your node if something's not
set up right.
IRLP and EchoLink are not quite oil and water, we all get along, but
there are some differences in network philosophies there that you can
fire up some people's emotions about.
There are also some VERY well-done digital ways to cross-connect the two
networks that the Reflector and "back-office" admins have worked out
through a lot of hard trial and error for things like the Hurricane Net,
etc.
If you have a legitimate reason to tie the networks together, talk to
folks that have been doing it a long time and sell them on your idea
first... they may already have all the bandwidth and software necessary
to do that type of thing "right". If you haven't figured out who to
talk to -- you haven't been active enough in the "community" to start
cross-linking things yet. Hang around the YahooGroups list and help
out... and all that usual stuff.
Basic rule of thumb... never EVER cross-link someone to another network
without their knowledge, just like you wouldn't cross-band repeat
someone else's repeater output to another band without ID's of your own
and permission of the repeater owner.
(Don't get me started about dual-band radios that have 10,000 bells and
whistles but the manufacturer's can't seem to give hams a legal CW ID
for, in cross-band repeat mode...)
If all you wanted was both EchoLink and IRLP on your repeater... not
cross-connecting them... ignore all of the above and join the EchoIRLP
folks and their on-going "beta test" of unofficial software that seems
to work pretty well, once installed.
Nate WY0X
(Sysadmin for IRLP Reflector 9870/status.irlp.net/rt.irlp.net... etc.)
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