[SkyHub] Linking KCWide and SHL

Sun Jan 14 15:51:29 EST 2024

Greetings all,
We will be doing an experimental link tonight at 6pm Mountain as we are working with KC Wide and we hope to test air the HF Antenna NET heard on KCWIDE at 6pm Mountain time.  Plus tomorrow night at our regular Monday Night NET time KCWide will also be joining us as we experiment with linking the two systems for some nets and special amateur radio activities.

Please listen for special CHECK IN Instructions.  Anyone who can participate with us is WELCOME!
Talk to you later!
73’
Jack

Jack E. Roland KEØVH
www.ke0vh.com<http://www.ke0vh.com/>
www.skyhublink.com<http://www.skyhublink.com/>
https://www.youtube.com/@CapnJackFltSimChannel
303-704-3290

From: jerry Dixon <jerrydixonkc at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2024 1:33 PM
To: Rick Harkins W0FH <rick.harkins at gmail.com>
Cc: Kris Ulmer, KU0S, Blue Springs <kris.ku0s at gmail.com>; Jack Roland KE0VH, skyhublink.com, Broadcast <ke0vh at outlook.com>; jerry Dixon <jerrydixonkc at gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Linking KCWide and SHL

Rick, You're driving on our side,,, please take the lead,,, try anything you like anytime and please let me know If I can help in any way. Thank you,

I will pray and keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks ...Jerry

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM Rick Harkins <rick.harkins at gmail.com<mailto:rick.harkins at gmail.com>> wrote:
Any objections to linking KCWide and SkyHub for the 7pm central / 6pm mountain KCWide HF/Antenna net?

Rick W0FH

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 10:12 AM Jack Roland <ke0vh at outlook.com<mailto:ke0vh at outlook.com>> wrote:
Hey Rick any success here?

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From: Rick Harkins <rick.harkins at gmail.com<mailto:rick.harkins at gmail.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 11:26:15 AM
To: Jack Roland <ke0vh at outlook.com<mailto:ke0vh at outlook.com>>
Cc: Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com<mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com>>; jerry Dixon <jerrydixonkc at gmail.com<mailto:jerrydixonkc at gmail.com>>; WØSUN Bill <w0sun.Bill at gmail.com<mailto:w0sun.Bill at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: Linking KCWide and SHL

I think I'll change direction here. Rather than multiple analog to digital conversions, let's make the link digitally.

I will fire up a spare ZUM-spot I have here and connect it to SkyHub's YSF reflector. I will set the RF side to my Wires-X bridge radio. This will make SkyHub look like another YSF reflector to the KCWide room.

I'll have this up today and will do some testing.

Rick W0FH

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 8:27 AM Jack Roland <ke0vh at outlook.com<mailto:ke0vh at outlook.com>> wrote:
Hey guys I wanted to include Bucky and Jerry in on this discussion so we are all on the same page.

THANKS Skyler for your expertise below.  I think that we can make this work!
Jack

Jack E. Roland KEØVH
www.ke0vh.com<http://www.ke0vh.com/>
www.skyhublink.com<http://www.skyhublink.com/>
https://www.youtube.com/@CapnJackFltSimChannel
303-704-3290

From: Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com<mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 7:10 PM
To: Jack Roland <ke0vh at outlook.com<mailto:ke0vh at outlook.com>>
Cc: Rick Harkins <rick.harkins at gmail.com<mailto:rick.harkins at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: Linking KCWide and SHL

Changing the CallSign for all Fusion users WHILE keeping the same DMR ID that you use is doable. It's kind of a pain and annoying but this is how we did it.

There exists a script that converts all DMR ID's into callsigns by doing a lookup.

As you know, DMR ID's are constantly added, so this script needs to run every once and a while to refresh the list.

In our system, the script is named DMRIDUpdateBM amd ot os located in the /etc/cron.hourly directory, because it runs once an hour.

We had to edit this script to make an exception for our call, N2SKY, as we wanted it to turn the callsign into SKYHUB instead of N2SKY

We put the following line at the end of the updater script so that it replaces any instance of N2SKY with SkyHub

sed -i 's/N2SKY/SkyHub/' ${DMRIDFILE}

#
#                              CONFIGURATION
#
# Full path to DMR ID file
DMRIDFILE=/var/lib/mmdvm/DMRIds.dat
#
# How many DMR ID files do you want backed up (0 = do not keep backups)
DMRFILEBACKUP=1
#
# Command line to restart MMDVMHost
RESTARTCOMMAND="systemctl restart mmdvm_bridge.service mmdvm_bridge_ysf.service"
# RESTARTCOMMAND="killall MMDVMHost ; /path/to/MMDVMHost/executable/MMDVMHost /path/to/MMDVM/ini/file/MMDVM.ini"

###############################################################################
#
# Do not edit below here
#
###############################################################################

# Check we are root
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]
then
        echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
        exit 1
fi

# Create backup of old file
if [ ${DMRFILEBACKUP} -ne 0 ]
then
        cp ${DMRIDFILE} ${DMRIDFILE}.$(date +%d%m%y)
fi

# Prune backups
BACKUPCOUNT=$(ls ${DMRIDFILE}.* | wc -l)
BACKUPSTODELETE=$(expr ${BACKUPCOUNT} - ${DMRFILEBACKUP})

if [ ${BACKUPCOUNT} -gt ${DMRFILEBACKUP} ]
then
        for f in $(ls -tr ${DMRIDFILE}.* | head -${BACKUPSTODELETE})
        do
                rm $f
        done
fi

# Generate new file
curl 'http://registry.dstar.su/dmr/DMRIds.php' 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]\+/ /g' > ${DMRIDFILE}
sed -i 's/N2SKY/SkyHub/' ${DMRIDFILE}

# Restart MMDVMHost
eval ${RESTARTCOMMAND}

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 5:14 PM Jack Roland <ke0vh at outlook.com<mailto:ke0vh at outlook.com>> wrote:
You know the reason is probably because that the Analog AllStar side will not translate callsigns of course.  If I am understanding correctly.

I would be happy to do that way, but yeah the callsigns wouldn’t be seen on the digital side.  BUT, communications could happen that way and we could definitely experiment with that mode.

Let me know.  Lets keep in touch over this.

Jack E. Roland KEØVH
www.ke0vh.com<http://www.ke0vh.com/>
www.skyhublink.com<http://www.skyhublink.com/>
https://www.youtube.com/@CapnJackFltSimChannel
303-704-3290

From: Rick Harkins <rick.harkins at gmail.com<mailto:rick.harkins at gmail.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 6:10 PM
To: ke0vh at outlook.com<mailto:ke0vh at outlook.com>
Cc: Jerry Dixon <jerrydixonkc at gmail.com<mailto:jerrydixonkc at gmail.com>>; Kris Ulmer KU0S <kris.KU0S at gmail.com<mailto:kris.KU0S at gmail.com>>
Subject: Linking KCWide and SHL

Hi, Jack!

I've been doing some experimenting, and was successful in linking the two networks via AllStar. Someone on KCWide had a quick QSO with someone on SHL. Neither knew the other was on a different network.

The big downside I see is that my callsign shows up on both ends of the connection. I have all of the various links here at my house. AllStar, MMDVM_Bridge, Analog-Bridge, YSFGateway, etc. That kludge connects to US-KCWide and gets bridged to the Wires-X room. To be brutally honest, I have very little knowledge of how this works. I poked at it until things started to work.

I've tried changing the callsign in the various .ini files, but nothing seems to change. I did not change the associated DMR ID.

Any thoughts on how to better identify? In my short test, the person on this end kept trying to use my callsign.

Rick W0FH

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