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From: Kirk Just Kirk
[mailto:wb6egr@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:43
PM
To: Stephen - K1LNX
Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users]
d-star?
FROWN on it? I kid you not…
I run 2 of the Hawaii MotoTRBO and 1 of the Las Vegas MotoTRBO…
The first time I hear a interconnect from D-Star they all go dark…
Kirk
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Stephen - K1LNX k1lnx@k1lnx.net wrote:
There’s a 26 pin jack on the back of the MOTOTRBO radios, so it
could easily be hooked to a URI (well at least on the XPR 5550, which is
what I am running, not sure about other models. I think the 4550 has it as
well). And I am also unsure if the audio is present in digital mode, it’s not
on the repeaters, but unsure about the mobiles. It should be though, there are
several software packages out there that actually depend on a radio being
connected.
Native bridging? I don’t think that will be easy. There’s a product out there
that will allow you to hook a radio to it and then bridge it to the TRBO
network, but it’s not cheap (about $2,600). Motorola is also very tight lipped
about their protocol. I am working on getting accepted into the developer’s
program, but if I do get in I have to sign an NDA and I don’t think I can make
anything I potentially create open sourced because of it. I think there are
people that have done what I describe above though, seems like I’ve heard some
chatter about it. Believe me… I would LOVE to see a “chan_trbo” or
better yet a “chan_dmr” and be able to link both Hytera and MOTOTRBO
together in a app_rpt box, but the nature of the closed IPSC protocols for both
may prevent that from happening. It’s not impossible, the protocol could easily
be studied with a packet dump, but would probably take some serious code to
make it all work.
The bigger problem with all this is that the MOTOTRBO network operators
(DMR-MARC, DCI, etc) may frown on such an installation. This is the reason I
have not pursued this myself yet, there is a strong (and rightfully so) belief
to keep the network all MOTOTRBO.
Wishful thinking anyhow…
Stephen
K1LNX
-----Original Message-----
From: app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org
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On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Carrier
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:15 PM
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org; adamson_alan@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] d-star?
How about a similar connection to a mototrbo system. That would be cool!
K0jsc
Jeffrey S. Carrier
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Adamson [adamson_alan@hotmail.com]
Received: Sunday, 12 Aug 2012, 4:41pm
To: ‘Allstar User’ [app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org]
Subject: [App_rpt-users] d-star?
I know this is probably old hat to most, but I think I have the world’s most
connectable allstar server :)…
I’ve now got a B and C module of D-star (via freestar*) that I can connect in,
my own experimental XRF reflector, I can cross link analog to digital, etc.
What’s most amazing is HOW GOOD IT SOUNDS, when the D-Star audio comes
into the allstar server.
I just decided that I didn’t want to do the rptdir thing, so I’m using
chan_dstar and the dextra_client… And it really sounds good. I’m
scratching my head as to why this was so frowned on in the beginning of time
(not from the allstar guys, but the d-star guys).
Anyway, I think if I had everything connected up, it’s like 2 full duplex
repeaters, a full duplex IRLP connection, and a d-star gateway, but 2 simplex
bases, one for d-star one for allstar… Good think I had a whole bunch of 25W
dummy loads :).
since I got everything working, I just figured I’d share. while it wasn’t brain
dead easy, it wasn’t too difficult either.
Alan
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