Internet only repeaters
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:24 am
Hi all,
I'm looking to revive interest locally in ATV. The main problems that we have encountered with a "normal" repeater were site fees and electricity bills!!
The idea of an internet only repeater seems to address these problems "IF" it can be achieved both cheaply and also with low power consumption?
I was speaking yesterday to our local 2m repeater keeper to see if such a system could be implemented at their site. There is internet access there and there are no objections to us putting up a small antenna on the side of the cabin. At this stage I'm thinking of an Alford slot, a digital sat rx,video detect circuit, card reader and video switch as the basics. The output would then need to be streamed to the BATC streamer with maybe the Portsdown?
I would appreciate peoples thoughts/ideas of how such a repeater could be implemented to fit the low cost/consumption criteria that I'm working to.
I'm not looking for anything too fancy but something that can be achieved with the very limited computer knowledge that I have and on a small budget.
I look forward to your thoughts, ideas and experiences of this kind of repeater.
73
Malcolm G0UHY
I'm looking to revive interest locally in ATV. The main problems that we have encountered with a "normal" repeater were site fees and electricity bills!!
The idea of an internet only repeater seems to address these problems "IF" it can be achieved both cheaply and also with low power consumption?
I was speaking yesterday to our local 2m repeater keeper to see if such a system could be implemented at their site. There is internet access there and there are no objections to us putting up a small antenna on the side of the cabin. At this stage I'm thinking of an Alford slot, a digital sat rx,video detect circuit, card reader and video switch as the basics. The output would then need to be streamed to the BATC streamer with maybe the Portsdown?
I would appreciate peoples thoughts/ideas of how such a repeater could be implemented to fit the low cost/consumption criteria that I'm working to.
I'm not looking for anything too fancy but something that can be achieved with the very limited computer knowledge that I have and on a small budget.
I look forward to your thoughts, ideas and experiences of this kind of repeater.
73
Malcolm G0UHY