NEW! - 4 South African SVXReflectors installed with direction to the G4NAB UK Svxportal and other World Wide Clients (Part 2)

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In this posting I will continue with updates relating to the article available at:

NEW!  - 4 South African SVXReflectors installed with direction to the G4NAB UK Svxportal and other World Wide Clients   (Part 1)

In this very important posting we will look into preventing traffic from the SVXLink Modules such as EchoLink passing inadvertently over the network, avoiding potential looping (ping-ponging) due to mirroring of traffic.

This is also known as the dreaded repeater Ping Pong effect, Pulse Backs, Repeater Bouncing, Squelch Tail Bouncing etc.

I ran into a posting by Chris G4NAB where he requested the following:

“In each of the .conf files for the Modules in /etc/svxlink/svxlink.d/ is a line MUTE_LOGIC_LINKING. I would ask that in every case this is set to =1”

For those not knowing where to find the module config files this is where I found them and modified them accordingly.

#cd /etc/svxlink/svxlink.d  (enter)
#dir (enter)
Module config files will be displayed
#sudo nano ModuleEchoLink.conf (enter)

Remove # before MUTE_LOGIC_LINKING=1
Ensure that 1 is displayed.  If 0 is displayed change it to 1
Ctrl x
Yes
enter

Files:

ModuleDtmfRepeater.conf
ModuleEchoLink.conf
ModuleFrn.conf
ModuleHelp.conf
ModuleMetarInfo.conf
ModuleParrot.conf
ModuleSelCallEnc.conf
ModulePropagationMonitor.conf
ModuleTclVoiceMail.conf
ModuleTrx.conf

Note:  MUTE_LOGIC_LINKING=1 is not present in UsrpLogic.conf.  I did not change anything and left the file unedited (as is).  All the other conf files were however altered.

Finally:  I would like to request Repeater / Link Keepers in South Africa to modify their SVXLink Reflector setup as listed above.  We do not enjoy looping,  Ping Pong effect, Pulse Backs, Repeater Bouncing, Squelch Tail Bouncing etc. in South Africa!!