<html><body><div>Will you be at Dayton and taking orders this week?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>73, Jeff KE9V</div><div><br>On May 14, 2018, at 05:22 PM, Scott Miller <scott@opentrac.org> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">The upcoming Tracker4 has voice beacon capabilities - you can set up a <br>script to play WAV files from its internal flash memory. If you need it <br>to QSY a radio, you'd probably have to hook up relays to the channel <br>up/down buttons. I did that many years ago for a fixed station that I <br>needed to have transmit on two different frequencies.<br><br>Adding relays to the T4 is easy. It's one of the things I'm testing <br>today on the latest board revision. This is my test program for a $10 <br>quad relay board:<br><br>' This program toggles each relay in sequence<br>for a = 1 to 20<br> for b = 40002 to 40005<br> modbus_write(1, b, 768)<br> sleep 50<br> next b<br>next a<br><br>Later on I'll be setting it up for reusable code blocks so instead of <br>reading the datasheet to get the addresses and commands, you can just <br>reference an existing module for known devices. Trying not to get too <br>bogged down in that stuff right now when I just need to get a T3 <br>replacement out the door.<br><br>I updated the T4 photo on the site now that we've got the latest board <br>revision in: <br><a href="https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=200" data-mce-href="https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=200">https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=200</a><br><br>This board brings back the extra DB9 for serial devices like weather <br>stations. Unless I find something wrong with the board in the next day, <br>this will be the production version and we should start shipping in 2-3 <br>weeks. The graphics shown aren't necessarily final; I'm still waiting <br>for my graphic artist to get back to me with something more polished, <br>but we can do full color direct digital printing in house now so I can <br>tweak it as much as I want without having to get new silkscreens made.<br><br>Scott<br>N1VG<br><br>On 5/14/2018 1:04 PM, Fred Hillhouse wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I haven't seen the Byonics offering.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I did this about 10 years back with the ADS-SR1 Simplex Repeater from Argent Data Systems.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=98" data-mce-href="https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=98">https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=98</a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Best regards,</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Fred N7FMH</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">-----Original Message-----</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">From: aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 5:00 PM</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">To: TAPR APRS Mailing List</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Subject: [aprssig] Roadtrip APRS Full DUplex</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">*** trimmed ***</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">But you still need a 3rd radio for 52! And this year I will be running</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">AutoCQ on 52. Byonics has made me an auto-CQ'er for the trip toDayton.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">It can be set to call a brief CQ once every 3 minutes (or 2 minutes, or 1</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">minute). This gives 52 the same advantage as Voice Alert does for APRS.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">On the 1 minute setting it only says my call. On the 3 minute one it says</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">CQ 52 and the call.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">The #1 problem with this device if everyone used it is the same as with</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Voice Alert. LEAVING IT ON AND TURNING DOWN THE SPEAKER VOLUME. There is</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">nothing more frustrating on Voice Alert than someone pinging away with the</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">volume turned down. Byonics has set a timer that will time out after 30</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">minutes if there have been no transmissions.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Bob, WB4APR</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">---</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" data-mce-href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus">https://www.avast.com/antivirus</a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">_______________________________________________</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">aprssig mailing list</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" data-mce-href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" data-mce-href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" data-mce-href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" data-mce-href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>