About
The AllStar Link network consists of a number of large (and small) individuals and groups who wish to provide efficient large-area communications to the Amateur Radio public in their respective local areas. This is done by providing a local VHF or UHF repeater system controlled by a Linux-based computer system running the open-source Asterisk PBX telephone switch platform along with theapp_rpt repeater/remote base controller/linking software module (which is included in the distribution of Asterisk) connected to a high speed (broadband, such as Cable Modem or DSL) Internet connection.
The computer system running Linux/Asterisk PBX coupled with the app_rpt module makes a powerful repeater/remote base controller capable of controlling many (like up to hundreds, theoretically) repeaters and/or remote bases per computer system. It provides linking of these repeater and remote base "nodes", with "nodes" on other systems of similar construction anywhere in the world, over the Internet via its IAX2 Voice Over IP protocol. It also, of course, provides for an Autopatch (public switched telephone network access over the radio) on each node (Asterisk is a phone switch after all.
Command Code Description
- *1xxxxx Disconnect from node xxxxx
- *2xxxxx Connect/receive only to node xxxxx
- *3xxxxx Connect/transceive to node xxxxx
- *10 Disconnect last connected node
- *954 Disconnect all connected nodes (aggressive)
- *80 Force System ID
- *81 Say System Time
- *82 Say app_rpt software version
- *85 Last active node (system-wide)
- *87 System-wide connection status