For those who just DONT want to (or for some reason can’t) go through the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration, configuring hardware, etc.,
there is now a “hosted”, subscription-based solution that, along with a Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice “no-brainer” Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the “initial marketing blurb” from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don’t agree, please try not to send TOO many “flaming spears” in my direction :-).
"subscription" as in "monthly fee". If that's the case, it's going to be
a disaster, in my view.
Mike
KC7VE
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For those who just *DONT* want to (or for some reason can't) go through
the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration, configuring
hardware, etc.,
there is now a "hosted", subscription-based solution that, along with a
Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice
"no-brainer" Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the "initial marketing blurb" from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay
service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don't agree, please try not to send *TOO* many "flaming spears" in
my direction :-).
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Could you offer “turn key” servers for sale, of this type, as well as the subscription based service? Perhaps base the hardware on a HP thin client or similar?
Just a thought, probably a bad one. My apologies if you don’t have the time needed to do this.
Well…for some thats a great option. Micro-Node International stuff is well designed, can’t go wrong there…
Companies that host your website charge,ISP’s charge,VoIP service providers charge…
I saw this one on line…A “Service” that allows you to use their WORLD CLASS Elecraft K-3 (all 4 of them) remotely so you don’t have to
install anything at your home.Just sign on, hammer down and be a “Big Dawg”.So what does this cost? (Kevlar underwear time)…
The “Package” starts at a Paultry $3000 a year (no transmit time included) and goes all the way to $7000 a year (includes TX time and you can reserve it for your contest time)…
Hows THAT for HAM radio with a dollar sign in mind???
For those who just DONT want to (or for some reason can’t) go through the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration, configuring hardware, etc.,
there is now a “hosted”, subscription-based solution that, along with a Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice “no-brainer” Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the “initial marketing blurb” from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don’t agree, please try not to send TOO many “flaming spears” in my direction :-).
For those who just DONT want to (or for some reason can’t) go through the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration, configuring hardware, etc.,
there is now a “hosted”, subscription-based solution that, along with a Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice “no-brainer” Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the “initial marketing blurb” from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don’t agree, please try not to send TOO many “flaming spears” in my direction :-).
But that's not amateur radio. Whatever happened to the "experiment" and
"build" and "test". Today, most of the new people don't know an antenna
from a doughnut. That's a sad commentary for where amateur radio has
gone.
···
Well....for some thats a great option. Micro-Node International stuff is
well designed, can't go wrong there...
Companies that host your website charge,ISP's charge,VoIP service
providers
charge....
I saw this one on line....A "Service" that allows you to use their WORLD
CLASS Elecraft K-3 (all 4 of them) remotely so you don't have to
install anything at your home.Just sign on, hammer down and be a "Big
Dawg".So what does this cost? (Kevlar underwear time)....
The "Package" starts at a Paultry $3000 a year (no transmit time included)
and goes all the way to $7000 a year (includes TX time and you can reserve
it for your contest time)......
Hows THAT for HAM radio with a dollar sign in mind???
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Jim Duuuude > <telesistant@hotmail.com>wrote:
For those who just *DONT* want to (or for some reason can't) go through
the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration,
configuring
hardware, etc.,
there is now a "hosted", subscription-based solution that, along with a
Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice
"no-brainer" Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the "initial marketing blurb" from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay
service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don't agree, please try not to send *TOO* many "flaming spears"
in
my direction :-).
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Ya think???
How I would get on 440…get a Motorola mobile or handheld…program it or bitbang it into the ham band.Put it on the analyzer for final alignment for frequency and power out as well as RX sens…
Put 100 Watt Spectra/Syntor X-9000 and Maxtracs in car (no Riceboxes allowed in car)
OK…for HF I do own a 14 year old Icom 706MKII-G and a Kenwood TS-590, wish I had my Swan 500 back…
How the Appliance op gets on 440…Hop in family hooptie, drive to AES or HRO.Buy a $50 baofeng/TYT/Wouxun. Ask dweeb behind counter to program it for you. Buy a MFJ magmount with connector already attached. Get on WINSYSTEM and ask for radio checks HOURLY. Announce your “First Personal” and that your on the side.Tell everyone how amazed you are that a little radio is making it all the way to Ohio and that they have your meter pegged and sound “wall to wall & treetop tall”. For Christmas ask wife to buy you a Mirage LINEAR (with proper cables for the Chinese HT) you can REALLY be the big dawg in town.
For birthday ask kids to buy you a Yaesu crackerbox mobile, have local stereo shop install trunklip antenna mount.Plug radio into cigarette lighter outlet…
For Anniversary have wife buy you a Alinco HF rig and antenna tuner. Connect the Alinco to your left over 11 meter Super Skyraker 47Db gain Omnibeam and use the tuner to get it to work on 10/15/20/40 meters. (dont even THINK of making flat top wire dipoles).Don’t even THINK of buying a old Swan/Drake/Kenwood/Trio rig…might have to actually FIX something…
You can thank (my opinion) dingbats like “Gordon” for the store-bought “hams” on the air. i am VERY happy he doesnt sell pilots licenses…
Please take this off the app-rpt list. It has no place here. I’m sitting in an important meeting at work with my phone blowing up with emails from this listserv on this endless dribble.
Just change your notification settings.Sorry WE ALL are bothering you, that your phone is blowing up. There is a choice of a DAILY update and not each and every post
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Michael Wolthuis wolthuis@gmail.com wrote:
Please take this off the app-rpt list. It has no place here. I’m sitting in an important meeting at work with my phone blowing up with emails from this listserv on this endless dribble.
Mike
kb8zgl
From: Kirk Just Kirk wb6egr@gmail.com
Date: Friday, April 19, 2013 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] A “turnkey” solution for Allstar
Ya think???
How I would get on 440…get a Motorola mobile or handheld…program it or bitbang it into the ham band.Put it on the analyzer for final alignment for frequency and power out as well as RX sens…
Put 100 Watt Spectra/Syntor X-9000 and Maxtracs in car (no Riceboxes allowed in car)
OK…for HF I do own a 14 year old Icom 706MKII-G and a Kenwood TS-590, wish I had my Swan 500 back…
How the Appliance op gets on 440…Hop in family hooptie, drive to AES or HRO.Buy a $50 baofeng/TYT/Wouxun. Ask dweeb behind counter to program it for you. Buy a MFJ magmount with connector already attached. Get on WINSYSTEM and ask for radio checks HOURLY. Announce your “First Personal” and that your on the side.Tell everyone how amazed you are that a little radio is making it all the way to Ohio and that they have your meter pegged and sound “wall to wall & treetop tall”. For Christmas ask wife to buy you a Mirage LINEAR (with proper cables for the Chinese HT) you can REALLY be the big dawg in town.
For birthday ask kids to buy you a Yaesu crackerbox mobile, have local stereo shop install trunklip antenna mount.Plug radio into cigarette lighter outlet…
For Anniversary have wife buy you a Alinco HF rig and antenna tuner. Connect the Alinco to your left over 11 meter Super Skyraker 47Db gain Omnibeam and use the tuner to get it to work on 10/15/20/40 meters. (dont even THINK of making flat top wire dipoles).Don’t even THINK of buying a old Swan/Drake/Kenwood/Trio rig…might have to actually FIX something…
You can thank (my opinion) dingbats like “Gordon” for the store-bought “hams” on the air. i am VERY happy he doesnt sell pilots licenses…
nice idea for those who can’t/won’t/are afraid to tackle the beauty of working with a real OS and building a great performing and flexible repeater system.
For those who just DONT want to (or for some reason can’t) go through the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration, configuring hardware, etc.,
there is now a “hosted”, subscription-based solution that, along with a Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice “no-brainer” Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the “initial marketing blurb” from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don’t agree, please try not to send TOO many “flaming spears” in my direction :-).
What there IS a difference between an antenna and a doughnut??? I am shock!
I think that this service is a good thing. The only problem I could see is if the acid distro is forgoten by the service that need to be done on this new thing... Or if someone start using codes for this new service ,only there and if we want new fonction or bug fix, we would need topay for the subscription..Damn I hope I did not gave some idea to anyone here...
Envoyé de mon iPad
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Le 19 Apr 2013 à 15:37, "Mike" <ipscone@msdsite.com> a écrit :
But that's not amateur radio. Whatever happened to the "experiment" and
"build" and "test". Today, most of the new people don't know an antenna
from a doughnut. That's a sad commentary for where amateur radio has
gone.
Well....for some thats a great option. Micro-Node International stuff is
well designed, can't go wrong there...
Companies that host your website charge,ISP's charge,VoIP service
providers
charge....
I saw this one on line....A "Service" that allows you to use their WORLD
CLASS Elecraft K-3 (all 4 of them) remotely so you don't have to
install anything at your home.Just sign on, hammer down and be a "Big
Dawg".So what does this cost? (Kevlar underwear time)....
The "Package" starts at a Paultry $3000 a year (no transmit time included)
and goes all the way to $7000 a year (includes TX time and you can reserve
it for your contest time)......
Hows THAT for HAM radio with a dollar sign in mind???
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Jim Duuuude >> <telesistant@hotmail.com>wrote:
For those who just *DONT* want to (or for some reason can't) go through
the process
of setting up a Linux system, dealing with its administration,
configuring
hardware, etc.,
there is now a "hosted", subscription-based solution that, along with a
Micro-Node International
RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) (or a generic Voter board), makes a nice
"no-brainer" Allstar
node installation.
Attached is the "initial marketing blurb" from Micro-Node.
Jim WB6NIL
P.S. Sorry for this being a blatant advertisement regarding a for-pay
service. It seemed appropriate.
If you don't agree, please try not to send *TOO* many "flaming spears"
in
my direction :-).
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Does I qualify as an experimenter? Done a homebrew dstar repeater out of a tk 840 and a tk 860hg, a dvrptr, a thin client with a moded HD and used 2 multicoupler lying around to build the needed duplexer?
Or I took out the card rack out of a damaged VHF msr 2000 used the receiver, (built a small regulator to provice the 9.4 volts needed for the xtal circuit) took a maxtrac 300 did the power control mod to drop it to 700 mW, connected it to a msr 2000 vhf full duty PA. And connected it on my home made vhf duplexer built of 4 BP can moded to notch… And connected this maverlous thing to an allstar node!
I am either a cheap bastard or someone that like to touch things…
There are lots of “cheap” hams out here. An inordinately high percentage of us are engineers who have been highly trained to guide our actions around inflection points that give clues for optimization. We don’t fork over our hard earned cash easily.
That said, these services are likely a legitimate effort of someone to profit from amateur radio. Good for them. If they succeed, there will be many more AllStar repeaters out there for us all to use and the overall availability of the network will likely go up.
This is what capitalism is all about!
I wish them the very best success. May they live love and prosper.
73,
Mickey N4MB
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On Friday, April 19, 2013, pete M wrote:
Does I qualify as an experimenter? Done a homebrew dstar repeater out of a tk 840 and a tk 860hg, a dvrptr, a thin client with a moded HD and used 2 multicoupler lying around to build the needed duplexer?
Or I took out the card rack out of a damaged VHF msr 2000 used the receiver, (built a small regulator to provice the 9.4 volts needed for the xtal circuit) took a maxtrac 300 did the power control mod to drop it to 700 mW, connected it to a msr 2000 vhf full duty PA. And connected it on my home made vhf duplexer built of 4 BP can moded to notch… And connected this maverlous thing to an allstar node!
I am either a cheap bastard or someone that like to touch things…
Envoyé de mon iPad
Le 19 Apr 2013 à 16:11, “Kirk Just Kirk” wb6egr@gmail.com a écrit :
Ya think???
How I would get on 440…get a Motorola mobile or handheld…program it or bitbang it into the ham band.Put it on the analyzer for final alignment for frequency and power out as well as RX sens…
Put 100 Watt Spectra/Syntor X-9000 and Maxtracs in car (no Riceboxes allowed in car)
OK…for HF I do own a 14 year old Icom 706MKII-G and a Kenwood TS-590, wish I had my Swan 500 back…
How the Appliance op gets on 440…Hop in family hooptie, drive to AES or HRO.Buy a $50 baofeng/TYT/Wouxun. Ask dweeb behind counter to program it for you. Buy a MFJ magmount with connector already attached. Get on WINSYSTEM and ask for radio checks HOURLY. Announce your “First Personal” and that your on the side.Tell everyone how amazed you are that a little radio is making it all the way to Ohio and that they have your meter pegged and sound “wall to wall & treetop tall”. For Christmas ask wife to buy you a Mirage LINEAR (with proper cables for the Chinese HT) you can REALLY be the big dawg in town.
For birthday ask kids to buy you a Yaesu crackerbox mobile, have local stereo shop install trunklip antenna mount.Plug radio into cigarette lighter outlet…
For Anniversary have wife buy you a Alinco HF rig and antenna tuner. Connect the Alinco to your left over 11 meter Super Skyraker 47Db gain Omnibeam and use the tuner to get it to work on 10/15/20/40 meters. (dont even THINK of making flat top wire dipoles).Don’t even THINK of buying a old Swan/Drake/Kenwood/Trio rig…might have to actually FIX something…
You can thank (my opinion) dingbats like “Gordon” for the store-bought “hams” on the air. i am VERY happy he doesnt sell pilots licenses…
–
Mickey Baker, N4MB
Fort Lauderdale, FL “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.
Been offline for a few days, and will be sporadic for a while longer, and seen this "controversy" blow up. I agree there is a place for a hosted service. If you want to homebrew your entire system, great! I tend to follow this route myself, but there is definitely room for the hosted solution offered, and I hope it is a success. Horses for courses.
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On 21/04/13 5:27 AM, Marshall Oldham wrote:
Jim,
Actually, I think this will be a great service for certain folks that want a node,
but do not have the know how or help to build there own.
It's nice to have various options and choices when setting up an allstar node
depending on ones skill set or level in the hobby.
I think your "Turnkey" solution will fill a particular nitch.
:-).
:-).