Ron, Yes, as a matter of fact, we are using half-duplex transceivers for each link, and some links go through multiple "hops" which makes your 24 input tail beep generater method unusable.
We do infact put a tail beep on each transceiver (only when the received signal is coming in on the repeater's main receiver). So, our ideal solution would be a tail beep generater which would sit in between a full-featured controller of our choice, and it's main receiver. Of course, if there were a controller that allowed us to generate a tail beep on a half-duplex (remote base) style link, that would be even better... I've proposed this to several controller manufacturers, though, but thus far noone has chosen to implement this feature that I know of... Thanks, Chris, KG0BP Ron Wright, Skywarn Coodinator wrote: > > Chris, > > In the Cincinnati, OH, area is the 145.19 with many linked repeaters > and remote receive sites. Last I heard over 30 linked sites. > > We used a CW character as a tail beep for each. Such as a C for > Connersville. I built a CW tail beep unit that had 24 inputs each > with its own CW character. This worked fine until we got more than > 24 links. We then changed the tone from 1000 Hz to 500 Hz and used > the CW character/tail beep and the tone to ID the linked unit. This > worked well for there was a voter at the main tx site so was easy to > set up. > > If you do not have this one site to do all then a few controllers > allow programming a CW character for the tail beep. One can then set > the tail beep to a character associated with the linked repeater. > > But all depends on how you are linking. If linking with transceivers > from the distant repeaters one would have to put a tail beep on each > link tx to ID itself. > > 73, ron, n9ee/r > > --- In Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com > <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>, Chris Peterson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm involved in a large linked system (about 15 repeaters at > present). > > One of the goals of the system is that, regardless of the repeater, > the > > user should hear a different courtesy tone for each site in the > system. > > > > I'm just curious, are there any large link systems that do this, > and if > > so, what method do you use to propagate the site IDs? > > > > We have a method today, which works, but is not really supported by > any > > of the controller manufacturers. So, we've come up with some kind > of > > buggy custom macros for the SCOM 7K, whwhich don't transfer well to > > other controllers. This means we're constantly looking for used > 7Ks on > > ebay to add more repeaters to the system. > > > > We've added one RC210, and would like to add more, but it has its > own > > problems. > > > > I'll be happy to describe what we're doing, and some ideas we've > had for > > improvement, in a separate email, but for now, I'm curious to know > what > > other systems are doing. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris, KG0BP > > > >
