[Dstar] Monlink ??

[Michael Carey]

Dunno, it just went through...

Michael.
VK5ZEA

John Goda wrote:
> Michael,
> 	How were you able to get your message through so quickly when the original has not showed-up? Just kind of curious.
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> From: dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au [mailto:dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au] On Behalf Of Michael Carey
> Sent: Sunday, 28 February 2010 11:31 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Dstar] Monlink ??
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> I've installed Monlink on the VK5REX gateway and it works very well. 
> I've not enabled any of the automatic linking or re-linking as yet, just 
> using it to announce where VK5REX B is connected to using the "LI" in 
> the 7th and 8th character. I was hoping that this functionality would 
> have made it's way into Dplus by now, but no... maybe soon Robin says.
> It does auto announce the connection status, but it does it 
> intelligently. If the repeater is being used, it holds off until a 
> significant quiet period has elapsed... it's not a brute force cron job 
> that stomps on top of other transmissions.
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> The latest version of Dplus (v2.2f) does allow for more functionality in 
> user initiated scripts. Several environmental variables are now set by 
> Dplus for use by scripts launched by the "xxxxxx?X" URCall script function.
> Brian NJ6N and Darren G7LWT have started making scripts available that 
> use this extra functionality provided by the latest Dplus version.
> http://dstar.info/
> I've installed the available scripts on the VK5REX gateway PC and the 
> "xxxxxxIX" script sends back a transmission with the current linked 
> status in the 20 character message. It seems to work well, but I am 
> having trouble getting my IC-2820 to receive the message... not sure why 
> yet.
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> I've also installed WB4DSO's Dplusreport on VK5REX as well. This is 
> great, it allows people running nets to look at what is going on in a 
> much nicer fashion than trying to decipher the dplus.log file as it runs 
> past.
> It doesn't need root privileges to run so net controllers can have an 
> account set up on the gateway machine and run Dplusreport without any 
> danger of messing with the core functionality of the gateway machine.
>
> Michael.
> VK5ZEA
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> James Nelson wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I was just talking to Adrian VK4TUX, this new "Monlink" Application has the ability using the Letters "LI" in the 7th & 8th characters to enable a link query from your HT. This has sounds like one really useful utility. Can that be loaded on to the gateways ?  
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>> http://k4dso.com/util/MonLink.pdf
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>> Adrian also started a new discussion group on ;
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>> http://vk4tux.no-ip.org/phpBB3/
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>> 73'
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>> James     VK2JN 
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