I'm using an asl3 node to listen to very long nets. after some time i get a voice calling "node xxxxxxx timeout" and the link drops out until its rekeyed by someone else. also if i quickly kerchunk the audio comes back. what setting adjusts this timer? im really confused with all the different timers etc and cant find it.
thanks.
You're looking for totime in rpt.conf. It defaults to 180000 milliseconds, or 3 minutes.
totime = 180000 ; transmit time-out time (in ms) (optional, default 3 minutes 180000 ms)
Change that to a higher value.
I don't know if you're using a simplex node or repeater, but for simplex nodes, one thing I like to do is set the hangtime to 100 ms, and disable the linkunkeyct courtesy tone, but keep remotetx active. This way, I get a courtesy tone when I unkey from my own node, but the carrier drops as soon as a remote transmission stops, no hangtime or courtesy tone. This makes it much less likely the node will time out, even with a 3 minute timer. That being said, I have increased totime on all my nodes anyway.
xxx=cop,45 ; Link Activity timer enable -LATENA
xxx=cop,46 ; Link Activity timer disable -LATDIS