When commenting in a net, I drop for a reset when approaching the 3 min limit that the repeater has. Everything works fine (repeater doesn’t time out), but my own Allscan timer screen keeps going. So I have to watch it, and know that 5 mins is really 3+2.
Sometimes, they ask questions that require a long response and I’d like my screen to reset to 0:00 whenever I drop it.
Anyone know of a parameter I should check to make this fix?
Thanks, Doug KF8DRJ
AllScan gets the link times info from the Asterisk Manager Interface RptStatus commands, the same way as AllMon (v2 at least) and Supermon. There may be a timeout in ASL where it will reset that timer after COS and/or incoming network activity from the repeater node goes low for a specific amount of time, or maybe there’s no timeout and it just waits for carrier to drop from the repeater. Hard to say from the info you provided, a video would make it clearer. But in any case AllScan is not doing any calculations there, it’s just showing the times as reported by ASL.
AMI is the way everything gets the timers. The timer doesn't end until the current transmission does a "hangup" of the current transmission. If you quick-key (i.e. faster than the whole cycle ends), then it will not reset. The hangtime is only one part of it.
I've unkeyed, waited 3-5 seconds, re-keyed and my timer picks up where it left off. Again, no repeater disruption, which is good, but I'd just like mine to reset so I can trust it more ..