Keep Alive

While we are still waiting for BM to grant an always on connection to the bridge, I designed a simple way to keep the connection alive. I designed a holder for the FTM 500 microphone and a SwitchBot. I did some quick scripting and boom! The Link Keep Alive was born!

This will key every 15 minutes, keeping the link between DMR & YSF alive.

The reason for this is because BM says if the link traffic is coming from DMR stop traffic until the link has a station joining the conversation.

We shall see how this works, I leave today for a doctors visit at Mayo and won’t be home until late Tuesday night.