Setting up a remote base can be a chore. What one wants in it is so often so different. Most simply want a link to another repeater or frequency. With this one can talk about the gerneric interface using ptt, rx & tx audio and cos. The first 3 are easy to get, but still require some conditioning. The COS, unless one is using a commercial rig, has to be dug into the radio and found. It is there, but where and there are so many rigs.
Now if one wants freq control then the various manufactures use different standards requiring a custom interface for each. Some manufactures have radically different protocol from radio to radio. Yeasu is famous for this. Things have settled somewhat. One could take a PC and use something like HRD or the like, but now one is getting into a lot of hardware, not just a radio. Having one interface for all is very difficult. Having one for few is difficult, just not very. When I first did remote bases over 30 years ago and into the 90s few wanted them. Now all do. 73, ron, n9ee/r >From: skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/05/03 Sat PM 11:47:44 CDT >To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Still looking for an RBI-1; maybe I have to >build one? > >Re: Doug Hall RBI-1 > >Hi Bob, > >The problem is we paid so much for the fricken' box that none >of us want to get up off ours because we'd never be able to >ask enough money to make it worth our while. It would hard to >impossible to clone the RBI-1 unless you could work a deal to >buy the already programmed processor chip from Doug Hall, >probably via Duane. Even though the unit is out of production >I'd bet they're not going to share the code yet. It would be >interesting to find out if they'd even sell the pre-programmed >processor chip. > >Yeah, you could design your own but it's a lot of trouble >when every mfgr probably has a different format, connector, >data signaling level/method. > >Probably better to let the various Repeater Controller Mfgrs >have a go at building it into their controllers. Resistance is >futile... > >cheers, >s. > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I confirmed that these things are no longer being made, & >> haven't had any luck finding a used one. Hopefully I'll >> see one at Dayton, otherwise I guess I'll have to design >> my own. >> >> I can't believe there isn't enough of a market in remote >> base control for someone to market a universal controller >> interface that can talk to most VHF/UHF radios. >> >> Bob NO6B >> > > > Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
