How to setup a remote control of a radio across the mesh Items needed: - Radio (Yaesu FT-897D used in this example) - Phone Patch (Kenwood PC-1A used here) - Mesh Node - ATA VoIP Adapter (Grandstream HT286 used here) - NTE6408 DIAC (could use NTE6409, 6411 or 6412, depending on the on-hook voltage presented) - Short chunk of telephone cable with RJ-11 - Short section of small coax with 1/8" mono plug - Cabling to connect phone patch to radio (setup specific) - VoIP system (I used the Asterisk server already installed on K5KTF-USB with an extension setup for this use). Details of my system, which may vary from your own setup: I used 2 mesh nodes, K5KTF-USB which is a USB modified node, so I can connect a USB-to-serial adapter cable (PL2303 compatible) that already had the drivers and modules loaded to use the usb-serial cable. I used a separate node, K5KTF-FT-897D, for the VoIP connection. I may at some point move the serial connection over to FT-897D, once I get a spare serial port level shifter to have the CAT cable and the VoIP all one one node. Also, I already have a VoIP system, Asterisk and Chameleon voice mail, already installed on K5KTF-USB, using callsigns as extensions (K5KTF=5583, NG5V=6458, CTECC=28322, etc), so a directory is not needed. Know the callsign/tactical, know their extension. 1 / 11
First we connect all the hardware: Whatever phone patch equipment you get will determine how it is connected. In this example. I acquired a KWD PC-1A at the most recent Belton swapfest for $10. I saw 3 or 4 of these floating around up there for about the same price, so they are probably not hard to come by. I wired my Turner Plus Three into the patch box, using just the 4 conductors (Mic/GND, PTT/GND), and tied the patch box to the radio's mic and external speaker jacks. 2 / 11
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