W0ANM IRLP Node Information

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Welcome to the W0ANM irlp node 3106 website. This site was created to provide reference material for this nodes usage and operation. I may also include some useful irlp scripts for other node owners. Basic information about Node 3106:

IRLP Node IN SERVICE:	February 4, 2006
Location:	Saint Michael, MN (next to the Crow River)
Frequency:	446.050 MHz 131.8 Hz CTCSS Tone
Node 3106:	Pentium III 500Mhz, 256 Mb Ram,4.2 Gb HD, IRLP FC 3, 5.05.
RF Equipment:	· Motorola GM300 ~30W · Node simplex link antenna, home made "8 element colinear" vertical.
Coverage:	Mobile coverage is limited due to the stations location and antenna height. The coverage for typical mobile operation is approximately 10-15 miles.

This node is open to all. Please check the status of the node by using DTMF tones and enter "*0" . The node will respond if the node is connected to a reflector, cleared, disabled. Please review the node guidelines before using this node.

April 30, 2008

BACKUP Scripts

I've been using a backup script from Bluehaze. This backup/restore script was created by "Bluehaze" free for non-profit and non-commercial use. The Bluehaze backup script is version 4.31. For TERMS/CONDITIONS and more information on "backup" script, see the "readme_general_info.txt" text file in /root/backup. I decided to create a "wrapper" scripts to make it easier to backup and restore files on my node. This does not just backup the irlp node information, but the entire operating system. Why? Well many people add to their nodes various utilities and software and I found it quite easy to restore the entire system that piece-meal it back together. Some nodes have a CD burner combo which allows them to burn CD's. If your node has a CD burner, you will take full advantage of this backup scripts. If you do not have a local burner, but a system that does have one that can burn ISO images, then it's a matter of copying the ISO images to the remote system and burning the CD image. Now, if you don't have a burner on any of your systems, you still can create the backup files and store them off on another system. Restore, may be an issue, but I am working to simplify this process.

Restore Strategy

I use the orginal FC3 node software CD and to a new install, but *NOT* the irlp install software; it will be restore as part of the restore process. Once the FC3 software is loaded, I then copy (from the last CD) the backup script and following the install documentation followed by a full restore.

Installation Insructions file: irlp_backup_install.txt
Backup/Restore Software: irlp_backup_1.5.zip
Backup/Restore RPM: BackupScripts-1.5.i386.rpm

NOTE
The latest version now uses a configuration file to define variables for setup.

I have tested the backup scripts using FC3, FC5, and CentOS.

NOTE - CentOS 4.4

I found an issue with cdrecord and glibc-2.3.4-2.36 (part of update). It appears that the "gettimeofday"
call is failing with an invalid argument when called from cdrecord. I had to revert to glibc-2.3.4-2.25
(part of original CentOS release).

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles --oldpackage --nodeps glibc-common-2.3.4-2.25.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles --oldpackage --nodeps glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.25.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles --oldpackage --nodeps glibc-2.3.4-2.25.i386.rpm

Weather Scripts

I have a set of weather scripts that will get weather forecast, current conditions, and weather alerts. These scripts required festival, xml, and wget packages. Download and install the RPM after the rpm dependencies are met. The dependencies are listed below.

Weather Scripts:                WxScripts-0.6d.noarch.rpm

Here are the RPM's needed for installation (versons may vary):

FC3:
festival-1.4.2-25.i386.rpm
wget-1.10.2-0.fc3.i386.rpm
xmlstarlet-1.0.1-1.i586.rpm
perl-DateManip-5.42a-3.noarch.rpm

FC5:
    wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
  festival- 1.95-5.2.i386.rpm
    xmlstarlet-1.0.1-3.fc5.i386.rpm
    perl-DateManip-5.44-1.2.noarch.rpm

CentOS 4.4:
        wget - wget-1.10.2-0.40E.i386.rpm
    festival - festival-1.4.2-25.i386.rpm
         xml - xmlstarlet-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
    manip.pm - perl-DateManip-5.42a-3.noarch.rpm

If yum is configured correctly, you can automatically download some of the required RPMs and install the required packages by entering the following command as root:

# yum install festival.i386
# yum install wget.i386
# yum install perl-DateManip

The xmlstarlet-1.0.1 rpm can be found at sourceforge.net.

For FC5, you can install all of the rpms via yum. One final note, you can use Cepstral's text to speech utilities. I found that the voices are more natural sounding. For more information, see Cepstral's web site and the WxScript.txt document found in "/home/irlp/docs".

Star 69 Scripts with Cepstral Text to Speech Support

This script is a variation of Randy's, KC6HUR, star69 scripts. It requires Cepstral software to be installed; see Cepstral's web site. I placed the script and documentation in a RPM package for easy installation and removal. The script will report last connections, incoming, outgoing, reflector and waiting. The script can call the last connected or waiting station depending upon how the custom_decode script is configured.

s69 Script: star69irlp_cepstral-0.2.noarch.rpm

To install, download and test Cepstral software. Install rpm package as root:
rpm -i star69irlp_cepstral-0.1-20070411.noarch.rpm

Review s69 script documentation found in "/home/irlp/docs".