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ARMAD 2012

Thank You to all those that are serving, have served and plan to serve. May The Eagles Always Watch Over You. Always Ready To Defend.     Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day is coming up on 26 May 2012.  The Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend.  It is the time set aside each year to give a [...]

Digital Frontiers

In the 1800s there was the frontier of West. Today we have digital frontiers to explore. The digital frontiers may not always be digital voice or data that appears within this new frontier. Some may remember the days of 1200 baud packet that was quite popular in the 1990s. This technology is now present in [...]

The Challenge

The Challenge that is on everyone’s mind tends to end up dealing with financial requirements to maintain focus on the ideas and goals that a group and individual needs to accomplish. We are in that same situation as well, we need to have financial support in order to maintain the web site as well as [...]

CoTS

In development news we picked up five more nodes for connectivity to the Allstar Link Network.   These five nodes will be used in the Communications Transportable Systems (CoTS).  Also they are beneficial in understanding the proper procedures for setting up multiple node servers both for the Asterisk Radio Network – ARN and Asterisk Amateur Radio [...]

Dialing 711via PBX

Do you know what 711 TRS is? 711 is the nationwide telephone number for accessing Telephone Relay Service (TRS).    TRS permits persons with a hearing or speech disability to use the telephone system via a text telephone (TTY) or other device to call persons with or without such disabilities. Making TRS Calls

Digital Integration to PSTN

A new digital project is coming up that will provide a method to push digital radio traffic to SIP / IAX2 phones as well as PSTN. Testing is in progress now, more details coming soon.