I've noticed a lot of callsigns on the forums. I'm curious how many ham there are playing with asterisk.
Also curious how many are tying it to the hobby in some way. Allstarlink, etc. Or what their application is.
 
ham radio shout out
Submitted by kb9mwr on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 1:08pm.
ham radio
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 1:57am
Yes there are more
pa3dfn
73 cuagn
Philip
 
Count me in..
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 2:21am
73's de WB3FFV
 
I am in, and I haven't
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 5:17am
I am in, and I haven't played with Allstarlink yet. But, I will.
de KF4SKT
 
73's de NW7NW
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 10:46am
73's de NW7NW
 
Me Too.
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 11:22am
KG6IIW here.
 
Me three :)
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 11:36am
N3KJE
Renato
 
Me Too
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 11:59am
WB2SVB
Larry
Happy Holidays everyone
 
KB9SXU
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 12:49pm
KB9SXU
 
N5HZR
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 2:45pm
N5HZR
 
My callsign
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 3:51pm
KK4KEN, Ken in Montgomery. Hihi. I haven't had to say that in a while. I don't get much time to check into local nets anymore. :(
I have been trying to get a stable system set up so we can configure it for our autopatch in the club repeater. I am not sure if we have an autopatch right now or not. I know we did have one but I haven't heard anyone on that repeater in a while, so it might not be there anymore. Anyway, that's my current plan for integrating Asterisk with ham radio. :-D
Not sure if they are ready for another PC sitting in the club control room though... :-D
Ken
 
Here is another
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 10:27pm
Here is another thought.
Asterisk now supports Bluetooth channels. chan_mobile allows one to use Bluetooth cell / mobile phones as FXO devices. Yaesu came out with a Bluetooth 2m/440 FTM-10R Mobile. Can the two be written to talk to each other? One would think so.
 
KE6UPI I have 5 AllStartLink nodes
Sat, 12/29/2007 - 9:08am
Hello All, I have 5 AllStarLink (ASL) nodes. Two Uhf Repeaters and two Remotes and a Hub. Works great. ASL is going to release (sale) a USB controller in about a month.
Check them out at:
http://allstarlink.org
73's KE6UPI
David
 
WB4TPE here
Sat, 12/29/2007 - 10:57am
Glad to see others here.
73's Keith WB4TPE
 
SKN Tonight!
Mon, 12/31/2007 - 7:25am
Lads,
Remember at 0000 UTC it is SKN - I will be firing up my vintage Drake T-4XC/R-4C station with a Nye Viking key (yup a Navy knob too). I may dust off the McElroy too. Hope to run into some of you so we can talk some trixbox, not just RST/QTH/WX.
Loaded up 2.4.0 RC4 on the home server yesterday and noticed weather.agi is busted, so perhaps we can debug the script while on the air. Good news is wakeup.php still works!
CU SKN
73 & HNY
de Joe N9JR
(listen for the operator with the glass arm
 
my asterisk server pulls
Tue, 01/01/2008 - 2:09pm
my asterisk server pulls double duty as an EchoIrlp node.
n4ycw
 
I am assuming there is no
Tue, 01/01/2008 - 8:46pm
I am assuming there is no interconnection between the two? Here is something in beta that looks interesting:
thelinkbox by wb6ymh
Although the primary purpose is for VoIP linking of a limited number of repeaters "off grid", i.e. separate from the EchoLink and IRLP networks it can also be used on Echolink if desired. It can not be used on the IRLP network.
Unlike other systems thelinkbox also supports multiple radio ports. The ultimate goal is for thelinkbox to become a full featured multiport hub or repeater controller as well as a VoIP application. I believe the use of USB audio dongles under Linux will allow a modern PC to support a larger number of radio ports than are likely to be needed by even the largest repeater groups (> 16 ports), although I have yet to test this theory in practice. I'm currently running 2 RF ports, but I will be adding more ports in the future.
Here are some features:
1. Support for multiple simultaneous connections using different codecs and protocols. Currently tlb supports ADPCM and GSM codecs and the Echolink, RTP, and Speak freely protocols. When multiple sources are active the audio is mixed.
2. The number of VoIP connections is only limited by system RAM and available bandwidth.
3. Support for up to 32 physical radio ports (assuming OS and hardware support and enough processing power).
4. All ports are completely independent: Each port may have a unique set of DTMF commands. Each port can be connected to a distinct VoIP clients.
5. A full cross point matrix of connections between VoIP clients and RF ports is supported.
6. Does not require the user of a central server or authentication authority, all that is required is internet connectivity.
7. Support for either prerecorded PCM audio announcements or external text to speech systems such as Festival.
8. CW and voice IDs.
9. An audio sweep tone generator for system testing.
10. "Permanent" connections, if a link is lost tlb will keep trying to reconnect indefinitely.
11. Software DTMF decoder.
12. Open source software written in C and C++.
13. Support for inexpensive USB audio dongles including PTT and COS sense.
14. Software driven CTCSS generation.
Currently tlb runs on FreeBSD or Linux and supports serial port based Echolink interface boxes and rigblaster style interfaces. Under Linux the IRLP parallel port interface and modified iMic USB audio dongles are also supported.
 
73's Simon YV4EIA
Tue, 01/01/2008 - 9:10pm
73's Simon YV4EIA
 
IW2CXH
Mon, 02/11/2008 - 9:24pm
73' de iw2cxh
 
Ex amateur
Mon, 02/11/2008 - 9:48pm
I had my general since early High School (Mid 70's) when I got into commercial communications I lost interest.
As far as your point to multi-point application, I retired from Motorola last year. My last project was the SIP based Push to Talk over cellular system. A quick summary is here:
http://www.motorola.com/networkoperators/pdfs/CDMA-Network-Evolut...
The whole think was home grown. Monte Vista carrier grade Linux running on a Force NEBS compliant blade server. We mixed the audio using our own media server cards. Had over 300k subscribers on the Verizon Wireless Network.
This is essentially what you want to do. I have not looked at how robust the Asterisk conference server is, however there are other ways to approach the issue.
Let me know how you do and good luck.
Scott
--
Scott
aka "Skyking"
 
D-Star & Asterisk
Sun, 03/16/2008 - 10:41pm
I just stumbled into this thread about interconnecting D-Star network with ASTERISK PBX architecture:
http://www.icomamerica.com/en/support/forums/tm.asp?m=1616
John Hayes, K7VE wrote me a while back about the idea of using the AMBE-2020 chips in a PCI card or USB dongle will allow the conversion of the DSTAR Digital Voice to/from alaw or ulaw 8k digital voice and the chip decodes/encodes DTMF ... this combined with the datastream (containing callsigns) should enable making DSTAR radios extensions on a Asterisk PBX (or even assign a DID to them) -- total 2-way ROIP/VOIP integration that can route to/through the PSTN. (Example: dial 1-800-4KB9MWR and get a call you can pick up on your DSTAR radio and vice-versa.) Pretty powerful for EMCOMM and personal use.
 
I just stumbled into:
Mon, 05/26/2008 - 9:36pm
http://www.radiogrid.com/node/1
Can control up to four repeaters or link radios. Each repeater or link radio can be linked to any other port on the RG-4, or, through the internet, to repeater or link radio ports on other RG-4 Radio Gateways. Any port can operate independently or be linked to one or more ports, on the same RG-4, another RG-4 on the same LAN, or to other RG-4s through public or private IP networks.
The RG-4 is built around Asterisk open source PBX technology. Telephony integration is built-in, and fully integrated. Radios gatewayed through the RG-4 can be allowed to originate and receive VoIP telephone calls from your local network, and (with appropriate external hardware or by using an internet telephony provider) to and from the public telephone network. 500 MHz Blackfin processor, 64 MB RAM, 4 MB Flash memory, 1 GB SD Card
 
MI3ZJT is my callsign!
I use
Tue, 05/27/2008 - 12:46am
MI3ZJT is my callsign!
I use trixbox for my business. I would LOVE to interface it with the ham waves however it's currently illegial in the UK to connect ham radio to the PSTN. I could connect it to just my internal extentions but that's no fun...
 
http://openp25.org/index.php/
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 8:30am
http://openp25.org/index.php/category/project-status/
"We’ve determined that the open source Asterisk PBX appears to be a good framework on which to build a P25 ISSI (Inter RF Subsystem Interface) switch. Asterisk has a mature SIP stack and already has the ability to transparently pass RTP frames between SIP channels. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made an open source program for ISSI testing freely available to the P25 community. A full-featured open source P25 ISSI switch is clearly achievable."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P25_ISSI
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OpenDSTAR group has released several software tools which build on existing commercially available repeaters and Internet gateways to extend functionality.
And this interoperability work in progress attempt has been around longer than the P25 one. They too are working a SIP stack into their DPLUS gateway add-on daemon
 
UK
Fri, 09/05/2008 - 1:39am
Hi guys G6MNJ here - not too many in the Uk it would seem!
Am I alone?
73s paul
 
Spain - EA5HJX -
Sat, 12/12/2009 - 12:52pm
I´m also interesting in use Asterisk with hamradio. I´m now experimenting to create an HSMMN (High Speed Multimedia Network) with other spanish hamradio.
I am interested in contact with other hamradio operators to exchange experiences and repeater designs with Asterisk
My name is Alex Casanova (EA5HJX)
Best Regards
 
du9ew
Sun, 12/13/2009 - 7:50am
Walden, Certified FtoCC Admin & Tech
www.tech-r-us.com everythingIP
www.citivoip.com everythingVOIP
 
NP3BL
Sun, 12/20/2009 - 11:56am
73' de NP3BL - Puerto Rican Call Sign in Orlando FL, U.S.A.
 
ON4HSO / PA2HO
Tue, 12/22/2009 - 4:09am
Have been a HAM since middle of the 1970's (can't remember exactly) and playing with Asterisk the last 4 years. (not Trixbox, but 'plain' Asterisk)
73, ON4HSO /PA2HO
http://users.telenet.be/henk.oegema
 
Has anyone made a start
Tue, 12/22/2009 - 4:15am
Has anyone made a start already with interfacing?
 
N7MJJ
Tue, 12/22/2009 - 7:54am
Might as well sign in too!
John
 
Jim Dixon (WB6NIL), Steve
Thu, 12/24/2009 - 2:44pm
Jim Dixon (WB6NIL), Steve Rodgers (WA6ZFT), and Steve Henke (W9SH) are the main three hams behind the ham implementations; app_rpt and chan_usb.
app_rpt is a repeater that can use a CM108 USB soundcard via (chan_usb) as an interface to an analog radio system.
 
ham radio shout out
Fri, 12/25/2009 - 2:49pm
I am using asterisk at home and with Ip phone keep intouch with home from abroad.
I am visiting in Novia Scotia at my son's home. I plug-in my grand stream phone and my
homephone in Ontario rings in Novia Scotia and when i call from Nova Scotia it is like I was still in Ontario
making my calls.
Also use Asterisk in a command post for a local 3 day FESTIVAL.
VE3XKB
 
Ok, I saw this thread become
Mon, 01/04/2010 - 7:46am
Ok, I saw this thread become active again so here you go,
73 from n0mdf, started out as a ham in 1989, Extra Class (the old 21wpm days, ish)
Jay
 
VK2KN
Mon, 02/22/2010 - 3:09pm
Currently experimenting with P25, internet linking and PTT interfacing.
Cheers,
Peter - VK2KN
 
Very interesting Peter.
Part
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 12:35am
Very interesting Peter.
Part of the Sedition work? I'd love to read more about it.
Steve
 
Another ham another story ;)
Sat, 06/26/2010 - 12:45am
Using, playing and working arround Asterisk since 2001.
providing services to SOHO and private person on an own Server in a small scale.
The same server is used even by members of www.iresc.org for back to back communication between the members. listening to HF sites.
since this year the provisioning of the user accounts for IRESC is done by our central userdb management tool.
The newest project is now radio in the box, an emergency communication kit ready to go onsite where communication fails to provide radio, phone and internet via satellite.(disaster like haiti, chile..) the XIPPR project done by xilatec is the one we will adapt for that project.
of course those emergency sites will be interconnected to our Asterisk server which does PSTN termination and much more.
Its nice to see there are other HAM using Asterisk for Radio communication
Roger
 
HSMMN Project
Sun, 07/04/2010 - 4:22am
Hi all
Recently I am working to develop a box that is a router (IP), and Asterisk (VoIP) and gateway with radio (analog and digital radio) with a company. May be this box can help in disaster like Haiti. Around the HSMMN´s Project we are investigate to integrate Asterisk VoIP with analog or digital radios.
If you are interested in this project you can found more info at
http://www.bicubik.net/hsmmn
Thanks a lot
Best Regards
Alex Casanova (EA5HJX)
www.bicubik.net
skype: alexbogus
 
Nice to see all the HAM's on
Sun, 07/04/2010 - 10:37pm
Nice to see all the HAM's on here.
73's
N1XFV
 
Me too :-) PD2JAC
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 1:15am
I have made an installation with 15 ip-phones in my office with 4 iptrunks.
The Trixbox has replaced the good oldtime ISDN PBX what have saved us a lot of money ;-)
73 Jacques PD2JAC
 
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