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If you have a repeater on the east coast and one on the west coast. How do you connect them via internet to one another so when the east coast repeater receives a signal it gets sent and broadcast from the west coast repeater and vice versa? How would you do it with a Bridgecom Systems bcr-40du? Do they have built in capability for this such as an ethernet port? Also, what service would you use to handle the transmission of the signals as far as the web is concerned?

I am getting ready to put a second repeater on the air on 675 with the traveler PL 141.3 on the air. Thoughts were to tie this into the midwest gmrs system. This brings up some questions. First is should i have it nailed up as a constant connection or have it switchable. My thoughts are leave it nailed up so that users that are not aware it's linked or how to operate the links will still see the benefit of the widened user base. And of course the traveler channel being linked give anyone requesting help a better chance of getting ahold of someone to at least make a call for them if needed. I have looked at the interface and it's straight forward. Looks like Allstar which I have. Assuming this also requires a R-Pi or some SBC, Has anyone run this on a full computer and if a full computer, has anyone experimented with running it on a VM in a container? My P25Link R-Pi is actually a VM (natively a R-pi with a Perl application) that works well. Hoping to continue that trend and virturalize the computer part of this link to save space. Does anyone see an issue with putting the traveler channel on the link and specifically the midwest link... I am in central Ohio if there is a better system to be linking to I am all ears. Comments and thoughts are welcome here. If this is a bad idea, let me know.