Can I use VOX instead of COS on allmon3

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Using Any Tone 778 with R1 interface unit worked fine on ecko link want to use with Allmon 3 no cos output from radio. This is for a simplex gateway.

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Only if you are located in a totally silent shack. So no trouser burps, no snoring if you should fall asleep, no wifes/partners/kids/animals making noise in the background, no slurping tea/coffee, no eating crisps (or chips in the US) or crunching on maltesers. Otherwise you are good to go,

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If you eat "chips" in the UK, the sound they make is soggy enough not to trip VOX... (not so for the fish part, though...)

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Assuming the question was accurately asked, VOX on the radio and the use of COS have nothing to do with each other.

COS is an analog contact used to detect an incoming RF transmission. VOX is a radio setting that would trigger PTT rather than pressing the PTT button (which itself is an analog contact). Incoming COS triggers ASL to process receive audio, including sending it out to network link. Outgoing PTT triggers ASL to cause devices connected to a channel driver to "key up" to send audio - in the simplex case received from the network.

If the question was mis-stated and it's can you use VOX with ASL3 to trigger a transmission rather than a button press? Yes, given G0JSV's caveats above. But you really shouldn't unless you're always attending to the radio and turning it off (or disabling VOX) when you're not actively using the system.

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We seem to be at cross purposes I want to know if AllStar link has a setting that detects Audio rather than using COS to send dater to the net work. Ecko link software has a setting to do that which is called VOX. I run the existing hardwear that way with no problem. As AllStar now AF is coming from the radio I thought that was possible. If not I will have to find an hardware solution a audio operated switch on the COS line.

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There was a VOX setting.
I see no documentation in asl3 manual to share,
but it may be there and not where I might think.

Did you see anything in the setup menu ?

There was some issue on previous version, but I think it was fixed.

Previous setup data looked like this:

usbradio.conf

carrierfrom = vox	; no,usb,usbinvert,dsp,vox 
			; no - no carrier detection at all
			; usb - from the COR line on the USB sound fob (Active High)
			; usbinvert - from the inverted COR line on the USB sound (Active Low)
			; dsp - from RX noise using DSP techniques
			; vox - voice activated from RX audio

That is all the info I have to share