Sullivan Amateur Radio Club

Today the node was put into place to make the club’s 440 machine directly available to the AllStar Link network.  The node number for this repeater is 44011.  If you are using any of the AllStar access methods, this is the node number you will need to know.

We believe we have the node stable and we welcome you to connect to it at will.  We will continue to be doing some tuning on the node over the next several weeks.  If you have any observations or suggestions, please just let us know here or on the air.

My thanks to Paul Barber, who has been so helpful and so generous in volunteering his shack for the location of these nodes.  We plan to move them away from that location in the fairly near term, but these AllStar nodes would not be live and functional if it were not for his knowledge and council!  Thank you, Paul, I could not have done this without you!

Please feel free to enjoy the features that the nodes now provide you.   We will be adding more features and such to both nodes as time allows!

Bill Higgins
N0NOE

For nearly the last year, the audio streaming capability for our repeaters has been offline.  Today the streaming function has been placed back online.  What this means is that you can use any of several different ways to listen in to the activity on the repeaters.  First of all, you can click on either or both of the play buttons at the upper right hand part of our web page.  Doing so will open a popup window (for each button) with an HTML5 player within it.  Using HTML5 should allow this to work in any web browser either on a computer, or a mobile phone or tablet.  Secondly, if you prefer to use an app on your phone or tablet, you can download and use the Broadcastify app.  Just search for “KC0DBS” in the app and you can pick either stream to which to listen.  And I am told that the streams show up in some other online streaming apps.  So check out your favorite and see if they are there too!

The audio stream is delayed from real time by between 20-40 seconds.  So don’t be surprised if you are listening on the radio and the stream and you don’t hear it on the stream right away.

Enjoy and please let me know if you have any difficulties in using this feature.

(N.B.  The stream for the 440 machine has been intentionally silenced for the time being.  The streams are driven by the new Allstar nodes for each of the repeaters. There is significant interference at the site of the 440 node.  This will continue to stream silence from there until we are able to move the node to it’s final location which should be happening in the very near term future! )

Bill Higgins
N0NOE