[amsat-bb] help r pi i gate

[Nick Pugh]

Tnx for the reply

We want to transmit outbound from the I gate so we will need a PTT circuit.
Do you have any info on a ptt sct?

There are email servers on the igate system but the format is un clear to
me?







nick

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-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Roy Dean
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:47 AM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] help r pi i gate

>
> Here is our setup R pi b USB sound card Baofeng radio Software Dirwolf 
> Call sign on I-gate k5qxj-10 We have the R-pi log into the server I 
> have two questions. What is the format to use the email server? What 
> is required to the up the radio? Thx in advance DE nick k5qxj


Nick,

First of all, I would suggest you ditch the baofeng and usb sound card in
favor of an RTL-SDR ($20 on amazon).   there are a ton of instructions
online on how to set up the RPi + RTL igate, and Andrew Rich has created a
script that does it all for you.   Really a much simpler setup than using
an actual radio and soundcard interface.

As to your questions, not sure what you mean by "email server"?   There is
no email server involved with an igate.    Not sure what you mean by "up
the radio".   Do you mean "uplink"?   If that's the case, you need to
fabricate a PTT circuit to key up the radio.   Vox is an alternative, but I
did some tests like that and got really bad results (vox would keep the
radio keyed up for many seconds after Tx'ing a packet, thus missing any
digipeats or auto *acks or responses.

-Roy
K3RLD
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