Currently I have a server set up with RTCM’s running three repeaters at different sites. I have them all set to run random recorded announcements at 3 minutes before the top of the hour and then a CW ID every 10 minutes during activity.
I’ve been looking into changing my recorded ID’s into tail messages. I haven’t experimented with Tail messages yet for ID’s except for Skywarn Plus. I know you can rotate tail messages but what are your preferred ways of setting tail messages up?
If you have good info to convey, they are good.
If not, they are just in the way for others to use the system.
It all depends on if you have a profile system or a low profile system with few users.
After many years of putting up fair information, my repeaters are pretty quite, so I have none.
In your rpt.conf file you will find this:
The tailmessagelist setting allows a comma separated list of audio files to be specified for the tail message function. The tail messages will rotate from one to the next until the end of the list is reached at which point the first message in the list will be selected. If no absolute path name is specified, the directory var/lib/asterisk/sounds will be searched for the sound file. The file extension should be omitted.
Sample:
tailmessagelist = welcome,clubmeeting,wx ; rotate 3 tail messages
Note: ID recording files must have extension gsm,ulaw,pcm, or wav. The extension is left off when it is defined as the example shows above. File extensions are used by Asterisk to determine how to decode the file. All ID recording files should be sampled at 8KHz.