On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:09 PM, TRACIE WA5LSH wrote:
Why cant we put our 440 repeater on sunflower net ?? Can someone program it
It is locked on to K-LINK and that's been defunked for over 2 years... The SD controller card needs to be removed and modified to access Sunflower net instead of K-LINK..
Prior to 2015 when I was president- the club paid the K-link guys to program it.. The repeater was gone to someones test bench fo r3 or more months. The server password to ALLSTAR LINK was kept a secret by the K-LINK boys so only they could allow repeaters to access the system.. So a bogey couldn't get into K-link, our repeater or any other in the system.
So effectively the software is locked down.. If it accesses the internet, it sees that K-link is not there and reverts to the "not connected to the internet" mode. That is how it is operating now.
1. The fix is to pull the SD card..
2. Read the files on a LINUX machine as reading the card on a Microsoft machine is gibberish..
3. Reverse engineer the program versus the "stock program" to see how they locked it up..
a. Turned off commands
b. made it automatically connect upon power up.
4. Then once that all is reverse engineered, change the access (dial up) from K-link to Sunflower .
5. Then convert from Static IP protocol to dynamic IP, as G4-G5 wireless internet does not support port forwarding.
a. that means before the K-link boys could dial into the machine remotely for updating and control- like if
the K-link network was being interfered with.
b. because wireless Internets are "double NATed" control telemetry cannot be done over the internet, but
must be done by RF link- legal on the input because it's above 222mhz. FCC rule. The Fusion repeater has 2
receivers so one could be used as a control channel. Doing control on the repeater input requires that
the control transmitter be stronger than any interfering signal.
Any idiot with Linux ability could "program it" it's the reverse engineering, debugging, removal and return. The engineering part require intimate knowledge of the ALLSTAR Programing.. How it works, far beyond the knowledge it takes just to build and program a node. That in my estimation requires perhaps hundreds of hours of time. To do it right... as the problem is the K-link people and a reason for it's demise is that everything was a secret and they demanded that all repeaters in their system would be Motorola DMR. They documented nothing, our K-link repeater is one of a kind internally modified, and It all ready caught on fire once and I spend a week maybe more during covid resurrecting it. That episode cause conflict in the club by the way.
The club instead by vote bought 2 Fusion repeaters, as the VERTEX was killed when Motorola bough them from Yaesu.. Then sold off one of the Fusion repeaters.
This is one of the reasons I am no longer a member of the club. 50 chiefs and 1 Indian. Everything done by vote or committee. No redundancy, And I mean no redundancy, meaning someone "reprograms" the repeater, no one else knows what was done when the guy that did all the work get hits by a bus. NO documentation. No group project.. As we have seen last 6-8 years conflicts, that I have never seen in any of the 15-20 ham clubs I belonged to in my 59 years of being a ham elsewhere in the USA.
My recommendation.. get a Grant like the 146.94 boys did and have Motorola build a machine.. Except Motorola will refuse to sell to hams.. too much a problem since, they are all narrow band now and ham is wide band.. and Bridgecomm is being sued. failure to warranty, let alone is pure Chinese crap in a Kansas City box.
I have bills to pay, walls to paint, taxes to pay, doctors to see, I'm even tired of brushing my own teeth for the last 70 years every day.. I'm not going to take on rebuilding an Edsel that been wrecked and burned, to enter it in a race to find out it's really a demolition derby
Bah Humbug to all......
off to Black Friday Shopping....
Larry W8LM...
Larry Macionski