ID for an RT97S?

[RoadRanger]

Does anyone make a plug'n'play IDer for an RT97S repeater? Morse code only is OK.

I'd prefer one that only ID's when the repeater was used in the last 15 minutes - and only does it every 15 minutes when active - and doesn't "talk" over a user but waits to the end of a transmission. Is all that too much to ask? LOL

If I can't find something prebuilt I think I could cobble something together from a cheap Arduino - a Raspberry PI is way overkill and stoopid expensive at the moment ...

[wrci350]

9 minutes ago, RoadRanger said:

a Raspberry PI is way overkill and stoopid expensive at the moment ...

Many of the authorized dealers have them in stock again and you can get them at the list price, not what some scalper on Amazon is charging.  But if you can do it with an Arduino, go for it!

[SteveShannon]

53 minutes ago, RoadRanger said:

Does anyone make a plug'n'play IDer for an RT97S repeater? Morse code only is OK.

I'd prefer one that only ID's when the repeater was used in the last 15 minutes - and only does it every 15 minutes when active - and doesn't "talk" over a user but waits to the end of a transmission. Is all that too much to ask? LOL

If I can't find something prebuilt I think I could cobble something together from a cheap Arduino - a Raspberry PI is way overkill and stoopid expensive at the moment ...

Sign up for notifications for the Raspberry Pi boards from the official dealers. They are pretty available at good prices. I think I paid $15 for a Pi Zero W and $35 for a Pi 3b+. Adafruit gets them in and notifies you and you buy them immediately. They sell out quickly but they don’t gouge. 

[RoadRanger]

45 minutes ago, wrci350 said:

Many of the authorized dealers have them in stock again and you can get them at the list price, not what some scalper on Amazon is charging.  But if you can do it with an Arduino, go for it!

Looks to be stoopid easy to get an Arduino to do this - There's already morse code software available for it. It can't do regular audio I/O but can output a tone. I think I'll go ahead and do it and publish a "how to" for everybody

[WRQG411]

13 hours ago, RoadRanger said:

Looks to be stoopid easy to get an Arduino to do this - There's already morse code software available for it. It can't do regular audio I/O but can output a tone. I think I'll go ahead and do it and publish a "how to" for everybody

I'll be watching for that write-up....

[SteveShannon]

The ID-O-Matic is popular. It’s probably not as simple as plug and play. 

14 hours ago, RoadRanger said:

Does anyone make a plug'n'play IDer for an RT97S repeater? Morse code only is OK.

I'd prefer one that only ID's when the repeater was used in the last 15 minutes - and only does it every 15 minutes when active - and doesn't "talk" over a user but waits to the end of a transmission. Is all that too much to ask? LOL

If I can't find something prebuilt I think I could cobble something together from a cheap Arduino - a Raspberry PI is way overkill and stoopid expensive at the moment ...