@@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor check out ICS Controllers site. They have a board that works with the MTR-2000. Look in their shop under controllers and pirepeater family. Maybe reach out to Dan to consult beforehand.
Is their a good English set of documentation for this project anywhere? I’ve tried using translate and find it consistently frustrating. I bought into this kit in 2017 and still have not built it
I’d assume you are making reference to the SVXLink Card. I don’t know of a good set of English documentation that go into great detail. The schematic he has in English. There is probably some assumption of skill level required. He does has an assembly video, although in French, it may be of help with the schematic in hand. ua-cam.com/video/hP9DqySVHDg/v-deo.html
The Getting Started Video goes into some explanation using the ICS controllers Pi Repeater 2X board using a single port. It doesn't get into the nitty gritty details like the wiring as that will vary from setup to setup or adjusting the audio pots on the board. ICS has some documentation and videos of their own that cover this. The SVXLink card is offered in kit form and takes a more technical approach as assembly is required, so that is not a beginners board. But yes it could be a possibility to do other videos. Let me know what you'd be interested to see that isn't covered by the Getting Started video.
@@OpenrepeaterProject yeah I just watched it. I was under the assumption that the hardware interface were in fact the radio(s) needed. Looking for a way to make a nice small as possible field deploy-able repeater for my old SAR team.
@@JohnWeland ICS has the 1X interface that is the same size as the Pi Zero W. That might work for portability. I am not sure of your technical background, but part of the challenge with any duplex repeater setup is not desensitizing the receiver with the output of the transmitter. To do it right, you need filtering (i.e. duplexers/tuned cavities) or you need either significant antenna separation and/or frequency separation (i.e. crossband repeat). These are certainly challenging when trying to come up with a portable setup. I was talking with Dan at ICS last evening about maybe modifying the Retevis RT97. But only the UHF one would be practical in the US because you can do 5MHz input/output spacing on 70cm. Spacing on 2M in the US is too narrow and you need bigger filters to do so make it not so portable.
Too bad that hams only want to sell, and not share thoughts and schematics. Would be nice to see more svxlink single radio hotspot users with a pi and add on board on in.
African Twin these are predesigned boards. ICS Controllers boards are already assembled and the SVXLink Card is offered in kit form. They both offer schematics on their sites. You can visit openrepeater.com/hardware for links out to their pages as well as some guidelines to build your own interface. Hope that's of help.
@@OpenrepeaterProject Ah okay. When will there be a image for simplex node users with the easy digi interface . There are a lot of hams that would like to join svxlink. But there is no svxlink image that hase a nice simple user interface , besides open repeater duplex 2.0. . I think that it would be so kewl that if someone had a pi hat interfaceboard schematic and gui image for simplex node users.. A french ham had this bit.ly/2DsAe2K but dont want to share info. The other french svxlink card sellers only build for repeater duplex cards. This ham has a allstar interface board , but also dont want to share schematics bit.ly/2Q6KWm8 . I quess there is only narrow band mmdvm for simplex users.
@@africantwin173 If you talking about a simplex node such as a simplex Echolink node, that is probably not too far off. The 2.0.0 feature just added the basic support for multiple ports and part of that was supporting simplex logic on the link ports. Developing a more robust interface for the ports is in the plans. All the building blocks are in place to do so, it is just a matter of making some code modifications. So you should be able to do so now with some coding knowledge until more options are introduced in a future release.
What one for vertex vxr7000
Does this software run on pi 4
what board do i need for MTR2000 repeator
@@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor check out ICS Controllers site. They have a board that works with the MTR-2000. Look in their shop under controllers and pirepeater family. Maybe reach out to Dan to consult beforehand.
Is their a good English set of documentation for this project anywhere? I’ve tried using translate and find it consistently frustrating. I bought into this kit in 2017 and still have not built it
I’d assume you are making reference to the SVXLink Card. I don’t know of a good set of English documentation that go into great detail. The schematic he has in English. There is probably some assumption of skill level required. He does has an assembly video, although in French, it may be of help with the schematic in hand. ua-cam.com/video/hP9DqySVHDg/v-deo.html
Any chance you'd be willing to do a tutorial with either of these boards? Sort of a here's the hardware, here's the software, here's the setup?
The Getting Started Video goes into some explanation using the ICS controllers Pi Repeater 2X board using a single port. It doesn't get into the nitty gritty details like the wiring as that will vary from setup to setup or adjusting the audio pots on the board. ICS has some documentation and videos of their own that cover this. The SVXLink card is offered in kit form and takes a more technical approach as assembly is required, so that is not a beginners board. But yes it could be a possibility to do other videos. Let me know what you'd be interested to see that isn't covered by the Getting Started video.
ua-cam.com/video/Uhig_YhqrbY/v-deo.html
@@OpenrepeaterProject yeah I just watched it. I was under the assumption that the hardware interface were in fact the radio(s) needed. Looking for a way to make a nice small as possible field deploy-able repeater for my old SAR team.
@@JohnWeland ICS has the 1X interface that is the same size as the Pi Zero W. That might work for portability. I am not sure of your technical background, but part of the challenge with any duplex repeater setup is not desensitizing the receiver with the output of the transmitter. To do it right, you need filtering (i.e. duplexers/tuned cavities) or you need either significant antenna separation and/or frequency separation (i.e. crossband repeat). These are certainly challenging when trying to come up with a portable setup. I was talking with Dan at ICS last evening about maybe modifying the Retevis RT97. But only the UHF one would be practical in the US because you can do 5MHz input/output spacing on 70cm. Spacing on 2M in the US is too narrow and you need bigger filters to do so make it not so portable.
Too bad that hams only want to sell, and not share thoughts and schematics. Would be nice to see more svxlink single radio hotspot users with a pi and add on board on in.
African Twin these are predesigned boards. ICS Controllers boards are already assembled and the SVXLink Card is offered in kit form. They both offer schematics on their sites. You can visit openrepeater.com/hardware for links out to their pages as well as some guidelines to build your own interface. Hope that's of help.
@@OpenrepeaterProject Ah okay. When will there be a image for simplex node users with the easy digi interface . There are a lot of hams that would like to join svxlink. But there is no svxlink image that hase a nice simple user interface , besides open repeater duplex 2.0. . I think that it would be so kewl that if someone had a pi hat interfaceboard schematic and gui image for simplex node users.. A french ham had this bit.ly/2DsAe2K but dont want to share info. The other french svxlink card sellers only build for repeater duplex cards.
This ham has a allstar interface board , but also dont want to share schematics bit.ly/2Q6KWm8 . I quess there is only narrow band mmdvm for simplex users.
@@africantwin173 If you talking about a simplex node such as a simplex Echolink node, that is probably not too far off. The 2.0.0 feature just added the basic support for multiple ports and part of that was supporting simplex logic on the link ports. Developing a more robust interface for the ports is in the plans. All the building blocks are in place to do so, it is just a matter of making some code modifications. So you should be able to do so now with some coding knowledge until more options are introduced in a future release.
@@OpenrepeaterProject When will there be a image that supports Simplex Logic.
PD1ASH the 2.1.0 version that is in testing now has added a simplex mode. This would be useful to use with EchoLink module to create a simplex node.