On Dec 16, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: > This is why I wish more repeater controllers had a user-accessible DVR > track (even if it was only 10 seconds), and macros to record, play and > erase it. > I saw a web page a while back on how to build one using a Hallmark > record/playback greeting card, but I can't find it now.
Another reason to add IRLP... the PC can do this easily. It's come in handy a number of times already around here. :-) > As far as I know the CAT-1000 does not have any analog inputs, and > no way to add them. This means that even if you had a device to > create analog DC voltages from the forward and reverse power (i.e. > the forward/reverse power monitoring module from EMR or Telewave > that Eric was referring to), you couldn't read the voltage, set > thresholds > and speak alerts based on those thresholds.... much less take those > voltages, scale them to useful numbers, and speak the numbers back > to you. The S-Com 7330 will eventually have support for its external A/D inputs. Should be very useful for such toys! An arbitrarily scaled RSSI monitor could be another useful use for them. > Or fake the guys out... set up a DTMF command that when triggered > says "97 watts forward, 1.5 watts reverse" > Unless you really do lose your antenna, or have a power amplifier > deck flake out on you the average user will never know the difference. Knowing my luck I'd trigger that thing when it was really broken. :-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]