Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up
Yes, this is a good point to mention. However, it would become painfully obvious at some point. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Laryn Lohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:18 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up And it would be good to keep the wx receiver audio low enough that users can talk over it. You wouldn't want your weather net taken out of service for two minutes during an active weather net. Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There won't be dead air. You'll hear weather. If you want the duration to be shorter than the preset of the receiver, have your controller shut it down sooner. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Well pooh! I really don't want to tie up the repeater for X-minutes with dead air. especially when there could be severe weather involved. VOX? Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up It will transmit the NOAA radio for the duration, unless you shorten the length with your controller. Chuck - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mark, I understand that Ext. Alert does not follow the NWS signals (specifically for End of Message), but stays high for a period of time and then drops. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, if the message is shorter than the timer on the Ext. Alert, does the repeater then just transmit dead air, or is the Ext. Alert forced low with the EOM signal. Dang. it's hard to test all this when the radio never goes off. 2 weeks ago, I'd have been going off every 5 minutes! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mullarkey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mike, If your controller has the ability to use speaker audio take it off the external pc connection and run that into the receiver input of the controller. I have not opened my unit yet so not sure where the discriminator connection would be. The ext alert works great for the COS input. Mike Mullarkey (K7PFJ) From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:03 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Where are you grabbing audio from, Chuck? My original thought was to pull it off the volume pot. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:33 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Just to cover my faulty memory... it might be longer than 2 minutes, but it is several minutes - longer than I need. I simply have the controller shut it off when I want - with the time-out-timer for that port. Chuck - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers See below. - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:07 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers I just picked up a Midland WR-100 weather receiver to replace my sickly Radio Shack unit here at the house. I've been toying with interfacing a weather receiver with our repeater for a while and was considering getting another WR-100 (they're only $29 locally) for that purpose, but I have a couple of questions. 1) I see on RBTIP page that Midland WX receivers have a built-in fault because they will mute before receiving the EOM signal from NWS. Does anybody know if this is true of the WR-100? It doesn't follow the EOM. However, if you set it to tone it will stay active for about 2 minutes. 2) Does anybody know what types
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up
For 2 minutes I would think a weather alert would be more helpful than what the net was covering. All should hear the weather alert in most all cases. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Laryn Lohman wrote: And it would be good to keep the wx receiver audio low enough that users can talk over it. You wouldn't want your weather net taken out of service for two minutes during an active weather net. Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com , Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There won't be dead air. You'll hear weather. If you want the duration to be shorter than the preset of the receiver, have your controller shut it down sooner. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Well pooh! I really don't want to tie up the repeater for X-minutes with dead air. especially when there could be severe weather involved. VOX? Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up It will transmit the NOAA radio for the duration, unless you shorten the length with your controller. Chuck - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mark, I understand that Ext. Alert does not follow the NWS signals (specifically for End of Message), but stays high for a period of time and then drops. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, if the message is shorter than the timer on the Ext. Alert, does the repeater then just transmit dead air, or is the Ext. Alert forced low with the EOM signal. Dang. it's hard to test all this when the radio never goes off. 2 weeks ago, I'd have been going off every 5 minutes! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Mullarkey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mike, If your controller has the ability to use speaker audio take it off the external pc connection and run that into the receiver input of the controller. I have not opened my unit yet so not sure where the discriminator connection would be. The ext alert works great for the COS input. Mike Mullarkey (K7PFJ) - - - - - - From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:03 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Where are you grabbing audio from, Chuck? My original thought was to pull it off the volume pot. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:33 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Just to cover my faulty memory... it might be longer than 2 minutes, but it is several minutes - longer than I need. I simply have the controller shut it off when I want - with the time-out-timer for that port. Chuck - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers See below. - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:07 PM Subject:
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up
Depending on the circumstances, we'll probably turn the receiver off during a weather net and let the net control pass the info on. OTOH, it'd be easy enough to switch in a voltage divider to allow two different audio levels. P.S. The club may be passing the hat to buy a WX-200 from CAT instead of going the cheaper route. We've had good luck with the membership doing this before and it keeps the club budget intact. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laryn Lohman Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:18 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up And it would be good to keep the wx receiver audio low enough that users can talk over it. You wouldn't want your weather net taken out of service for two minutes during an active weather net. Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com , Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There won't be dead air. You'll hear weather. If you want the duration to be shorter than the preset of the receiver, have your controller shut it down sooner. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Well pooh! I really don't want to tie up the repeater for X-minutes with dead air. especially when there could be severe weather involved. VOX? Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up It will transmit the NOAA radio for the duration, unless you shorten the length with your controller. Chuck - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mark, I understand that Ext. Alert does not follow the NWS signals (specifically for End of Message), but stays high for a period of time and then drops. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, if the message is shorter than the timer on the Ext. Alert, does the repeater then just transmit dead air, or is the Ext. Alert forced low with the EOM signal. Dang. it's hard to test all this when the radio never goes off. 2 weeks ago, I'd have been going off every 5 minutes! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Mullarkey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mike, If your controller has the ability to use speaker audio take it off the external pc connection and run that into the receiver input of the controller. I have not opened my unit yet so not sure where the discriminator connection would be. The ext alert works great for the COS input. Mike Mullarkey (K7PFJ) -- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:03 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Where are you grabbing audio from, Chuck? My original thought was to pull it off the volume pot. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:33 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Just to cover my faulty memory... it might be longer than 2 minutes, but it is several minutes - longer than I need. I simply have the controller shut it off when I want - with the time-out-timer for that port. Chuck - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater
[Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up
I am actually working on this, this weekend. I am going to set the WX alert to interupt all traffic, but, use a simple * to shut it up, also since I can now tell weather it is a watch, warning, or statement from the alarm inputs, I may let a statement or watch get recorded and played when there is a break and only let warnings break in. Still working out the details. My main concern in South Florida is tornados and severe T-storms, most else, like hurricanes we already know are coming. When I get it working I can post a summary of what I did for all to see if someone would think it would be worth it. Rob - KS4EC --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Mike Besemer \(WM4B\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depending on the circumstances, we'll probably turn the receiver off during a weather net and let the net control pass the info on. OTOH, it'd be easy enough to switch in a voltage divider to allow two different audio levels. P.S. The club may be passing the hat to buy a WX-200 from CAT instead of going the cheaper route. We've had good luck with the membership doing this before and it keeps the club budget intact. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laryn Lohman Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:18 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up And it would be good to keep the wx receiver audio low enough that users can talk over it. You wouldn't want your weather net taken out of service for two minutes during an active weather net. Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com , Chuck Kelsey wb2edv@ wrote: There won't be dead air. You'll hear weather. If you want the duration to be shorter than the preset of the receiver, have your controller shut it down sooner. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Well pooh! I really don't want to tie up the repeater for X-minutes with dead air. especially when there could be severe weather involved. VOX? Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up It will transmit the NOAA radio for the duration, unless you shorten the length with your controller. Chuck - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mark, I understand that Ext. Alert does not follow the NWS signals (specifically for End of Message), but stays high for a period of time and then drops. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, if the message is shorter than the timer on the Ext. Alert, does the repeater then just transmit dead air, or is the Ext. Alert forced low with the EOM signal. Dang. it's hard to test all this when the radio never goes off. 2 weeks ago, I'd have been going off every 5 minutes! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Mullarkey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mike, If your controller has the ability to use speaker audio take it off the external pc connection and run that into the receiver input of the controller. I have not opened my unit yet so not sure where the discriminator connection would be. The ext alert works great for the COS input. Mike Mullarkey (K7PFJ) -- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:03 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Where are you grabbing audio from
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Please do! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ks4ec Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:59 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up I am actually working on this, this weekend. I am going to set the WX alert to interupt all traffic, but, use a simple * to shut it up, also since I can now tell weather it is a watch, warning, or statement from the alarm inputs, I may let a statement or watch get recorded and played when there is a break and only let warnings break in. Still working out the details. My main concern in South Florida is tornados and severe T-storms, most else, like hurricanes we already know are coming. When I get it working I can post a summary of what I did for all to see if someone would think it would be worth it. Rob - KS4EC --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com , Mike Besemer \(WM4B\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depending on the circumstances, we'll probably turn the receiver off during a weather net and let the net control pass the info on. OTOH, it'd be easy enough to switch in a voltage divider to allow two different audio levels. P.S. The club may be passing the hat to buy a WX-200 from CAT instead of going the cheaper route. We've had good luck with the membership doing this before and it keeps the club budget intact. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Laryn Lohman Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:18 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up And it would be good to keep the wx receiver audio low enough that users can talk over it. You wouldn't want your weather net taken out of service for two minutes during an active weather net. Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com , Chuck Kelsey wb2edv@ wrote: There won't be dead air. You'll hear weather. If you want the duration to be shorter than the preset of the receiver, have your controller shut it down sooner. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Well pooh! I really don't want to tie up the repeater for X-minutes with dead air. especially when there could be severe weather involved. VOX? Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up It will transmit the NOAA radio for the duration, unless you shorten the length with your controller. Chuck - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mark, I understand that Ext. Alert does not follow the NWS signals (specifically for End of Message), but stays high for a period of time and then drops. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, if the message is shorter than the timer on the Ext. Alert, does the repeater then just transmit dead air, or is the Ext. Alert forced low with the EOM signal. Dang. it's hard to test all this when the radio never goes off. 2 weeks ago, I'd have been going off every 5 minutes! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mike Mullarkey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mike, If your
[Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up
And it would be good to keep the wx receiver audio low enough that users can talk over it. You wouldn't want your weather net taken out of service for two minutes during an active weather net. Laryn K8TVZ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There won't be dead air. You'll hear weather. If you want the duration to be shorter than the preset of the receiver, have your controller shut it down sooner. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Well pooh! I really don't want to tie up the repeater for X-minutes with dead air. especially when there could be severe weather involved. VOX? Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up It will transmit the NOAA radio for the duration, unless you shorten the length with your controller. Chuck - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mark, I understand that Ext. Alert does not follow the NWS signals (specifically for End of Message), but stays high for a period of time and then drops. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, if the message is shorter than the timer on the Ext. Alert, does the repeater then just transmit dead air, or is the Ext. Alert forced low with the EOM signal. Dang. it's hard to test all this when the radio never goes off. 2 weeks ago, I'd have been going off every 5 minutes! Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mullarkey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Mike, If your controller has the ability to use speaker audio take it off the external pc connection and run that into the receiver input of the controller. I have not opened my unit yet so not sure where the discriminator connection would be. The ext alert works great for the COS input. Mike Mullarkey (K7PFJ) From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:03 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Where are you grabbing audio from, Chuck? My original thought was to pull it off the volume pot. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:33 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - follow up Just to cover my faulty memory... it might be longer than 2 minutes, but it is several minutes - longer than I need. I simply have the controller shut it off when I want - with the time-out-timer for that port. Chuck - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers See below. - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 2:07 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers I just picked up a Midland WR-100 weather receiver to replace my sickly Radio Shack unit here at the house. I've been toying with interfacing a weather receiver with our repeater for a while and was considering getting another WR-100 (they're only $29 locally) for that purpose, but I have a couple of questions. 1) I see on RBTIP page that Midland WX receivers have a built-in fault because they will mute before receiving the EOM signal from NWS. Does anybody know if this is true of the WR-100? It doesn't follow the EOM. However, if you set it to tone it will stay active for about 2 minutes. 2) Does anybody know what types of alerts will trigger the External Alert function on the receiver? Obviously I want to capture Watches and Warnings,
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Unit price is high and appears have to buy serial cable and programming software. One can get a SAME receiver for lot less money and these have on board keyboard programming, but I did note the receiver had a serial port, I guess for programming, but could other things be using the port. I really don't like requiring a computer to set up something like this. However, did it put out data to allow for interfacing to another unit, APRS/Packet, repeater, etc??? Most of the features are like most SAME receivers. However, most receivers allow for much more than 4 counties and I need this. My interest would be what the serial port puts out. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Thomas Kinard wrote: --- In Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com , Daron Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We tried a variety of off the shelf receivers, the WX-100 doesn't go http://www.emergenc yalertradio. com/5120. pdfoff http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/5120.pdfoff on tests so that was worthless. We tried a couple others and finally spend the money on the Cat WX-200 and just standardized on that. It does real well, it's a bit more spendy, but it does a regular drop and insert into the audio path making it impossible to miss. We have 6 of them on our repeaters, very nice. 73 N7HQR www.ocrg.org Ever look at one of these? Used it for years at home until a power surge took it out. Good little box. But, never hooked it to a repeater. Responds to start and ending tones. Software to program it is free online from them. Here's a link. Hope this helps. http://www.emergenc yalertradio. com/ http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/ http://www.emergenc yalertradio. com/5120. pdf http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/5120.pdf 73 WA0RTU http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/5120.pdf
[Repeater-Builder] Re: Weather Receivers - follow up
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Daron Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We tried a variety of off the shelf receivers, the WX-100 doesn't go http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/5120.pdfoff on tests so that was worthless. We tried a couple others and finally spend the money on the Cat WX-200 and just standardized on that. It does real well, it's a bit more spendy, but it does a regular drop and insert into the audio path making it impossible to miss. We have 6 of them on our repeaters, very nice. 73 N7HQR www.ocrg.org Ever look at one of these? Used it for years at home until a power surge took it out. Good little box. But, never hooked it to a repeater. Responds to start and ending tones. Software to program it is free online from them. Here's a link. Hope this helps. http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/ http://www.emergencyalertradio.com/5120.pdf 73 WA0RTU
