Silent Key (G0NSW - Barry)

It is with great sadness that we have to report the passing of a dear friend of both the SIG, the old GB3DX repeater group and the Wythall Radio Club. Barry G0NSW has recently passed away having dealt with illness for many years, He wil be missed. Barry was one of the first administrators of the GB3DX Repeater System and moved on to run his own Internet gateway from Redditch., a nice guy whom will be missed by all that knew him.

Welcome

iQSO is the main information hub for the Solihull Interlinking Group that has a specific interest in Internet Linking and digital communications. The new group is a collaboration between Mark G4LCH & Dave G4DPZ plus a carefully selected close down & administration team for each system.

MB7IBG- GB3UI Echolink Cluster

The MB7IBG Internet gateway has not been relocated, despite many stations in the past stating that they would like to run an internet gateway. We have now enhanced the system both GB3UI and MB7IBG are available 24x7x365 via Echolink, the system also supports IRLP and Asterisk connections.  Using a Single Machine, IP address and multiple interfaces, sound cards we have crafted an Echolink cluster with the two nodes (GB3UI - MB7IBG) being able to link to not only to each other using echolink (totally legal) or each to separtate echolink stations as the operater sees fit using DTMF. A full range of DTMF commands will be published soon. The voice announcements presented a challenge but this has now been solved and both nodes have voice announcements. We are using custom software that will be improved in the coming months, but at this stage it is not available for general release.

We have further work to complete on the announcement side, CTCSS and DTMF and a porting to OSX. Watch this space. 

England Conference (UPDATE)

The new England conference server has returned to service and has been adopted by the Echolink_Worlwide facebook group as their home conference server. You must be a member of facebook to access the link.

Using a new high spec commercial grade redundant server we are able to achieve much more than the previous england conference server ever did, The station count for example is a reflection of the link state, the quality of the server and importantly the real number of connections it could support.

There are limits associated with the original bridge software (not down to the bridge but the operating system) if you know linux / windows do the maths you will see what I mean (this is not for the faint hearted) you must know the operating system well understanding how memory addressing works !!!!! do a .ver on a conference this gives the game away .

This site wil be updated to show the system status and give details of the interesting projects we are working on at this time.