Ok I’ve got my node setup. I’m in the Chicago area. I want to talk to a friend in the Phoenix area, with an Allstar enabled repeater. He does NOT have an Allstar node at this time. But he can hit the repeater. I have been told, that everyone on that Allstar repeater, I connect to, will hear me. That makes sense! But I have also been told, I will only hear people on that repeater, that are using Allstar nodes. That doesn’t sound right to me. That MIGHT make sense, because I’m not going to hear a UHF repeater 1500 miles away via RF. I ASSUMED I would also hear that repeater, via VOIP from my node. It might be the way it is… But if so, and I need Skype, and you need Skype, why not just use Skype? What am I missing here?
Hi Bill,
Everyone on the AllStar repeater will hear you and you will hear everybody on the repeater. It’s just like you are within the repeater coverage area. Also, if there are other nodes connected to the repeater node, you will hear all the other nodes and they will hear you.
Here is a graphical example of a bunch of nodes connected together. Everyone in this group can talk to everybody else. This is the WIN system, which one of the biggest AllStar groups. This page takes a while to load.
http://stats.allstarlink.org/getstatus.cgi?2560
Here is the list of all AllStar nodes. The green background node number indicates an online node. Click that to see any connected nodes.
https://www.allstarlink.org/nodelist/
It is possible to connect in the monitor mode (*2xxxxx). This would allow your node to listen to the monitored node but they would not hear you talk. However, it’s unlikely that’s how the repeater your friend is on is setup to only monitor inbound connections.
Thank you Tim. I know it was a stupid question, but I was confused, because I was told that I would need another node to make the round trip. But it is going to work the way I thought it would. Thank you again for making that clear! I probably just misunderstood what my Elmer was trying to tell me.
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On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 9:38 AM Tim Sawyer via AllStarLink Discussion Groups noreply@community.allstarlink.org wrote:
ASL Admin December 15Hi Bill,
Everyone on the AllStar repeater will hear you and you will hear everybody on the repeater. It’s just like you are within the repeater coverage area. Also, if there are other nodes connected to the repeater node, you will hear all the other nodes and they will hear you.
Here is a graphical example of a bunch of nodes connected together. Everyone in this group can talk to everybody else. This is the WIN system, which one of the biggest AllStar groups. This page takes a while to load.
Here is the list of all AllStar nodes. The green background node number indicates an online node. Click that to see any connected nodes.
It is possible to connect in the monitor mode (*2xxxxx). This would allow your node to listen to the monitored node but they would not hear you talk. However, it’s unlikely that’s how the repeater your friend is on is setup to only monitor inbound connections.
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No worries, Bill. It’s not a stupid question. AllStar is unlike any other ham network and the learning curve can straight up, at least at first. So having a solid foundation is important to build upon. We’re here to help so ask away.