[Asterisk-Users] FRS & *: an actual business use

[Mark Phillips]

I see that to be fraught with problems.

Speaking as a radio ham, I find that non radio savvy folks have little 
appreciation of the unique "problems" surrounding radio users.

Sure you'll be able to connect up your phone patch device to a 
conference (radio<>phone patch<>SIP ATA) but your radio users will never 
get a word in. For all the time that your conference users are talking 
the "base station" radio will be transmitting and thus shut out the 
radio users.

One solution for this could be to use a full duplex radio system. You'd 
use 2 radio's and radio channels (much like a repeater). This way if 
your radio users need to comment on something they can key up on the 
other channel. Problem here is that FRS radio's don't have this ability 
and radio's that do are not cheap!

Mark

Glenn Powers wrote:
> Rich Adamson wrote:
> 
>>> I've noticed a growing number of stores using FRS radios. It would 
>>> make sense to interface (via soundcard/console driver, with the 
>>> nessacary electrical conversion) a VOX FRS radio to asterisk to allow 
>>> someone in the office to page/talk with people on the floor or 
>>> warehouse. You could throw that call (ie, all the radios) into a 
>>> meetme conference. Then, you could have people in the office either 
>>> dial that extension and/or have some of them always in that 
>>> conference on a speaker phone (muted usually).
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Unless I'm not understanding your comments, the meetme conference isn't
>> needed (assuming all radios are on the same channel). The radios 
>> become the meetme for all practical purposes. (When the base radio
>> transmits, all remote radios listen.)
>>  
>>
> 
> I had intended for the meetme conf to allow more than one /phone/ user 
> to communicate with
> the radio users at the same time.
> 
> cheers,
> glenn
> 
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