I am attempting to setup a portable Fill-in Digipeater.? I am using a 12v battery, TT4, and Radio Shack HTX-252 connected using the Byonics cable, R4C.? Pretty basic setup.? The problem I am running into, is unless the signal is really, really strong, the TT4 isnt decoding it, or even seeing the carrier (no lights).? I have two other aprs stations at my location to compare, and would expect simlar results.? (mobilinkd / FTM-3100) & (direwolf / IC-7100).
I have adjusted RXAMP to almost every setting and used MONITOR while adjusting volume, forcing other APRS stations to trasmit, and just getting poor results.? I have also run a "RESTORE", and reconfigured the system, messed around with CDMODE and CDLEVEL.? I have plugged external speakers into the audio port of the radio to verify it is working and I can hear signals.? Turned squetch on, turned it off, added ferrite cores to the audio cables.? Yes, I have an anetnna plugged in, even gets 1.1 SWR. ?
As another test, that I didn't spend much time on, was to plug the audio cable into my IC-51 handheld, to make sure it wasn't a radio issue, as this HTX is an ebay find. ?
I have attached my export config.? (Dropped BANK1 config as it was just a copied and reduced the size of the post.)? Yes, it is a bit simple right now as it is just focused on receiving signal before I start configuing everything else on it.? ?
I also included a receive log below.? My station comes through, but is close to 30 feet away running 5W.? The other station is a few miles away, but have no idea on setup or power output.?? Being just north of the Seattle area, this area sees a lot more traffic as I am able to see on my other stations. ?
Any insight into what I may not have tried or what I may be doing wrong, would be helpful. ?
Side note, I am running verison 0.72
BANK 0
P300 FALSE
TXTDISP FALSE
NODISP FALSE
PPATHING FALSE
DMSDISP FALSE
MICETMV FALSE
ENTS FALSE
TELHIRES FALSE
TELVOLT TRUE
TELTEMP TRUE
PREEMPT FALSE
DIGIID TRUE
WXPOS TRUE
TELREAD TRUE
FRAWDISP FALSE
HRAWDISP FALSE
WYPTXT FALSE
PKTICOM TRUE
PKTOCOM FALSE
RPATHDISP FALSE
LEDS TRUE
PAVPEN FALSE
DEC96 FALSE
DDIST FALSE
HEADERLN FALSE
DMETRIC FALSE
SOFTRST TRUE
MSGCMD FALSE
MSGCAP FALSE
LRNTPS FALSE
GPSCHK FALSE
INTCLK FALSE
DECSTAT TRUE
DIGIMY FALSE
TOSV FALSE
TALT TRUE
TSPEED TRUE
TIMESTAMP TRUE
TIMEHMS TRUE
SBEN FALSE
TSWPT TRUE
AMODE TEXT
BMODE GPS
ABAUD 19200
BBAUD 4800
BNKMODE 0
SSIDROUTE 0
ALTNET APTT4
MYCALL W0PGK-1
PATH1 WIDE1-1
PATH2 %
PATH3 %
TSTAT /Fill-in Portable Digipeater
BTEXT >/Fill-in Portable Digipeater ^V ^T
BPERIOD 0
TXD 40
MTXD 10
PERSIST 65
SLOTTIME 15
QUIET 10
TRNKMODE 0
CDMODE TONES
CDLEVEL 20
TXLEVEL 128
TXTWIST 50
RXAMP 13
GWAYLEN 9
GWAYMODE NMEA
GRELAYBITS 1
GRELAYRATE 0
GKRELAY 0
LOCATION 1234.2800N 12345.6174W
GALT 1000
TSYMCODE #
TSYMTABLE 1
STATUSRATE 1
PPERIOD 0
MPPERIOD 0
SBSSPEED 5
SBFSPEED 60
SBSPERIOD 1800
SBFPERIOD 90
SBTANGLE 27
SBTSLOPE 255
SBTTIME 5
MMSG 0
TSOFFSET 17
TDAO 0
TPROTOCOL APRS
TPSWITCH 0
TPERIOD 0
TVOLTTWK 128
TTEMPTWK 128
WPERIOD 0
ALIAS1 WIDE1
ALIAS2 %
ALIAS3 %
DUPETIME 30
FILTERCALL %
TXFREQ 144.390
RXFREQ 144.390
RXSQUELCH 0
Recieve Log:
Press ESC 3 times to enter TT4 Options Menu
W0PGK>APDW16:!4755.28N/12205.45W-PHG2130Digi/iGate - IC7100 RPi Direwolf
LVL:67 TXD:45
KJ7NVA>TWTYZZ:'2]Bl? -/]=
LVL:72 TXD:18
W0PGK>APDW16:!4755.28N/12205.45W-PHG2130Digi/iGate - IC7100 RPi Direwolf
LVL:64 TXD:45
W0PGK>APDW16,WIDE1-1:!4755.28N/12205.45W-PHG2130Digi/iGate - IC7100 RPi Direwolf
LVL:35 TXD:45
KJ7NVA>TWTYZZ,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1:'2]Bl? -/]=
LVL:62 TXD:18
W0PGK>APDW16:!4755.28N/12205.45W-PHG2130Digi/iGate - IC7100 RPi Direwolf
LVL:63 TXD:46
Jay Nugent