You might try increasing the value for "politeid". The default of 30 seconds may be too short to catch most of the breaks. The news segments are usually less than 2, with 3 minutes being unusual since most repeaters won't allow more than 3 minutes. A politeid value of about 180000 (3 mins) might work better, assuming your idtime is about 10 mins for USA rules. Try a few values and see what works best.
The settings in
rpt.confthat determine when the ID is transmitted between other transmit and receive activity are idtime and politeid.
- idtime: Specifies the interval in milliseconds for automatic ID transmission. The default is 300000 (5 minutes).
- politeid: Specifies the number of milliseconds prior to the end of the
idtimecycle where the controller will attempt to play the ID in the tail (after a user unkeys) if there is no ongoing transmission. The default is 30000 (30 seconds).If the controller does not get a chance to send the ID in the tail via
politeid, the ID will be played over the top of user transmission. Additionally, if beaconing is set to 1, the repeater ID is sent at theidtimeinterval regardless of whether there was repeater activity or not.
David, WD5M