The repeater is currently running at 20 watts. The UDRC connects to the repeater through its remote port, and mounts on the Raspberry Pi's 40-pin connector.
The Pi is running the 'Compass' image which was provided by NW Digital and uses the G4KLX dstarrepeaterd deamon and the ircddbgatewayd daemon to connect to the D-STAR network.
Once we move it to the official site it will have heliax to a better antenna and a whole lot more height.
Why not a 100' run of coax? Breaks in the line cause signal loss. I am not telling you what you don't know. Didn't want to spend the $? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis is a temporary lashup. Once we get it back to the site it will have a relatively short run of heliax to the antenna. However, I could not locate the repeater close enough to reach the current run of coax, and didn't want to wait to order and then replace the long run along the roof for just a few weeks of testing.
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