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1. What this manual covers This manual is about how to configure and use the RLM software It covers what the RLM system is how do setup and configure RLM in different ways See the Users Manual form information of how to operate the system from your radio THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE SYSOP MANUAL PM WORKING ON TT Installation and first time start up When you have downloaded you RLM zip file you unzip the files into a folder on your hard disk This folder is normally C RLM but can be named or placed as you choose RLM can also be installed to a diskette but then you cannot use the voice functions When you have uncompressed the files you also get some folders In this folders you place the Soundpack files that you also have downloaded These files are available in both English and Swedish You start RLM by just type RLM in DOS and press enter You will se some things loading and then it stops and you must type a character This is only a reminder to registrate RLM and will not be shown if you have a license file installed Now RLM has started up and a sample configuration is running Here you can press F3 to get in to the Key input mode Now you can hit SPACE key to activate the repeater and then enter some DTMF command numbers to simulate that someone is using RLM from radio interface RLM technical system description RLM is a short for Repeater Link and Mail server and is an advanced repeater controller RLM can2. configuring via telephone modem You edit this file with a normal text editor such notepad or DOS Edit It contains your own made DTMF commands configuration Read more in the special chapter about programming DTMF commands You edit this file with a normal text editor such notepad or DOS Edit This file is a template for creating a report page of RLM statistics Read more in the chapter about configuring the report generator 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 5 12 User parameters In RLM all users has their personal parameters of how RLM will respond and behave to you You activate your personal user parameters when you log in User parameters control the time on different timeouts or if questions should be repeated I you don t answer in time Read more about this in the sections about command 5301 and 5302 Statistics RLM does a lot of logging of all that s happening It logs repeater user weather and link usage to text files so it can be used in Microsoft Excel or other program to make curves of how the system is used It also have a statistics database file that information like how many times a user has logged in and when the last time was and how many times the repeater has opened today or the total runtime of repeater is stored There are several DTMF commands in RLM to get this information Date and time RLM has a kind of Scandinavian way to look at
3. messages 5205 SYSOP You have logged in as system operator Du r nu inloggad som sysop Sysop login TEMP_IN Indoor temperature is Temperaturen inne r 61 TEMP OUT Outdoor temperature is Temperaturen ute r 62 TEMPLARM Temperature alarm Temperaturlarm Beacon temp alarm TESTDTMF Test DTMF enter any numbers Test DTME sl valfria siffror 51 TIME IS The time is Klockan r 55 TIMES times g nger TO To Till bulletine TO DATE Enter end date Sl in tilldatum 21 TODAY today at idag klockan 5 TONE Enter tone frequency Sla in tonfrekvensen 82 USER_LOG Check how many times a user has Kontroll av hur manga ganger en been logged in Anvandare har varit inloggad 5203 USER_MSG Check number of messages a user has Kontroll av hur manga meddelanden in the mailbox en anv ndae har 5204 USERINFO User information Anv ndarinformation 5206 USERPARA Do you want to change your personal Vill du ndra p dina parameters anv ndarparametrar 5302 VB_OPNED The mailbox has been activated Mailboxen har aktiverats 5102 WAS_LOGD Was logged in Var inloggad 5 YOU_HAVE You have Du har f tt Login O 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm
4. EN structure It starts with C RLM with subdirectories Doc sql gt al No_ramd Ramdisk and Workfile All these directories a on except for Doc are for sound files I will describe the Ip Fis l system files in detail below Doe y Amih y tetcaicida z Tre This is the files that is used by the RLM software These files must be in the same catalogue as the RLM EXE file Normally you place these files in C RLM RLM EXE The software You start RLM in DOS with just typing RLM and press Enter In Windows you double click in this file DATA RLM Binary data file containing repeater and voicemail statistic counters It also keeping the name of the 5 different setup s and some other frequently changed data You can delete this if you want to reset the counters USER_DB RLM The RLM users database containing users login code name statistics voicemail pointers and more It also keeps track of all bulletins Deleting this will erase all user data 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 SETUP_x RLM HELPTEXT RLM COMMAND CFG REPORT CFG System operators manual Page 4 12 This file contains all the settings that you make in the setup menus There are five setupfiles so that you can use five different configurations for different purposes This is a textfile that can be viewed in a text editor When you run RLM you can hit F10 at any time to get help from this file It is also used when
5. a question function DTMF 77 Start of command 77 PLAYRAM QUEST1 Asking Is this okay ASK Wait for DTMF input 1 or 0 SPELL OK Spelling O K if the answer is TONE 100 800 Send tone ELSE IF the answer is 0 CW noll 100 600 Key NOLL in 100 ch min with 600Hz 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden from the HD tone length DTMF 1234 Dtmf function 1234 start PLAYHD hello Playback the sound file hello voc directory MELODY cdef 50 Plays the melody cdef with 50ms PLAYUSER Playback the user number 1 s call tone http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 8 12 Listing of all functions commands PLAYHD filename PLAYRAM filename PLAYUSER filename RECORD filename RUN filename directory EXIT WARMBOOT RUNDTMF func ASK IF flag variable LAGS e ac Playback a sound file from the HD directory Playback a sound file from the RAMDISK directory Playback a sound file from the WORKFILE directory Playback a sound file from the WORKFILE directory Run a batchfile BAT that is located in the RLM Shutdown RL Shutdown and reboot the RLM computer Run another DMTF function Only the built in If the answer is 0 the command lines after ELSE is processed If not the lines before ELSE is processed Wait for DTMF input Runs a question about status of a RLM flag If the answer is negative the lines after ELSE is processed If not the lines before ELSE is pro
6. best case RLM will give you an error message but if you have a big error REM could hang This is the rules for writing DTMF commands Follow these instructions exactly when you write your functions Do not skip a line or enter wrong values e Your functions must start with DTMF function number eg DTMF 220 e A DTMF command consists of maximum 4 characters and the allowed characters is 0 9 A B C D and The DTMF functions in COMMAND CFG do not have to be in any particular order You cannot use a DTMF number that RLM already has as a built in command All commands and values are separated by a SPACE You can use upper or lowercase characters as you wish If you use the CW command use _ underscore as a space in the CW text eg Peter_Hansson e Ifyou want to write a REMark you use apostrof eg DTMF 1234 This is a good function O 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 7 12 use SPC Examples Examples allowed syntaxes CW peter 100 1000 Keying peter in 100cpm 1000Hz CW peter_allan 100 1000 Rem comment Use _ as a space in CW text Examples of not allowed syntax CW peter 100 1000 Comma not allowed as a separator CW peter 100 Missed value frequency CW peter allan 100 1000 Use _ as a space in CW peter_allan CW peter 120 500 Rem row a space is missing before the Example of a complete function Example of
7. 9 12 Report generator Description RLM has a simple built in report generator Every night at 12 00 a report page REPORT LOG in text format will be generated This could contain info on hard disk space who have mail repeater activations and more The idea for this report is if you have your RLM computer in a network and it communicating with a packet BBS or an Internet connected system You will then have the possibility to get daily statistics and info about RLM mailed to you or all repeater users automatically You can also view the report by hitting the F6 key from RLM s mainscreen To turn of or on the creation of REPORT LOG file go in to the setup and enter the L menu How to configure This is an example of how a report could look like Today AX2ZZY have been activated 1 times and the runtime were 4 minutes These users have voicemail 14 There are 30 megabytes fr space on the harddisk AS you see you use variables to insert some RLM info in your text This makes it very easy to format the report file exactly as you want The list of variables for use in the REPORT CFG file Use the sign before variable number REPEATER 1 Number of times the repeater been activated today 2 This month 3 Totally 4 Repeater runtime in minutes today 5 This month 6 Totally 7 Number of repeater activations without identification today 8 This month 9 Totally 10 Number if DTMF sending without identifying first to
8. M2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 3 12 Software development information RLM is written in Borland C 3 1 It is made of 12000 rows of code that i have been working on since 1994 I have tried to keep the EXE file as small as I can to make it possible to have TSR s and network drivers loaded in memory This makes some setup menus functions not all safe for all kind off error entering Operating system RLM is DOS software As I now there are no limits in what version of DOS you use but I now RLM works fine with MS DOS 6 0 and up plus Win95 98 in DOS mode I have made this software for DOS because repeater systems are often placed in not so easy accessible places If a computer hangs and restarts automatically you cannot be sure that your Windows 98 will start up by it selves There may be some strange dialog box showing on the screen that you must press OK on to continue or something else However RLM works in Windows 95 and 98 environments but there can be some strange timing problem when sending CW and other tones Files structure The filestructure in RLM is one single program catalogue that can be named to whatever you want Then there are 3 voice file catalogues that also can be named and placed as you like However I have a standard catalogue structure that I use and that will be described here o 10 EN The Explorer snapshot at left shows the normal file e NN
9. Meddelandet sparat som nummer 3 SAY_ Fence Fyrkant Num SAY_0 19 0 to 19 0 till 19 Num SAY_20 90 20 to 90 20 30 40 20 till 90 20 30 40 Num SAY_A Z a b c d The Alphabet a b c d Alfabetet Alpha SAY_HUND hundred hundra Num SAY_TOUS thousand tusen Num SAY_ Star Stj rna Num O 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 11 12 Filename English content Swedish content Mostly used in functions YEAR Year At Date MONTH1 January Januari Date MONTH2 February Februari Date MONTH3 March Mars Date MONTH4 April April Date MONTHS May Maj Date MONTH6 June Juni Date MONTH7 July Juli Date MONTHS August Augusti Date MONTH9 September September Date MONTH10 October Oktober Date MONTH11 November November Date MONTH12 December December Date Not frequently used files catalog NO_RAMD Filename English content Swedish content Mostly used in functions 1OR2 To continue press 1 to erase press 2 Tryck 1 for att forts tta 2 f r att raddera 26 ACT_MSGS active messages aktiva meddelanden 9006 ACTMSGMB Megabytes active messages megabytes aktiva meddelanden 9008 ACTIVATE The mailbox is activated Mailboxen aktiverad DTMF unlock ALLREDY The mailbox is already activated Mailboxen r redan aktiverad DTMF unlock AND and och APPLAUSE Applause Appl der Game functions BULLETIN bulletin bullet
10. RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 1 12 RLM 2 6 Working document of the System operators manual INDEX Wihat this mantal COVE iii da nat thes oe sik sen bis ba saeed adn tagasbes soe ev E AREO Aa AREER 2 Installation and first time start II enn sNs inst Terre e aeria Vere rn FN RANA STYRD EN 2 RLM technical system description senne niini iee e e i i ngr a ron nr eta rst RENA rs rr NGN YST ARR 2 Software development infOrmatiOl ssesserssrsrrssrssrrsrrsrrrsrrsrrsrrsrrsrresrrsrrs reses sees sr conan cnn rra cra cra ans 3 Operating SM is 3 Files StU Cure srona ie Ee EA E LAR E ca ane LAA ean A 3 PE A O 5 TAS EEE Gee E A a o 5 Date MAMMA A AA Ai 5 Programming your own DTMF functions ssesssrserserssrsrrssrsrrssrsrrrrrsrrrrrsrerrrrrsrrsrr recono cone on nero nono Rss n ran enn nnnn Ar rr nena necnnos 6 RULES na nna a sa GE es Gnade eG ate id 6 EXAMPLES 520455 ss oe E ATA Ea E TVANGS MA ANN ANS 7 Listing of all functions COMMANAS eee eceeceeeeeeseeeeseeeseeeeneeeneeeseesseeseaeeeaeesaeessaecsaecaaessaaeenaeeneees 8 Report BEMELALOL ne oee e ae a ra iia 9 DESCUIDO ct er De een SANS ee An A A T AE ER A a aea 9 HOW tO cOn SUTE re ciertos iio bociegiao tatoo ceniceros E tasa etapas tadas leo EE atlas cago les 9 SOUNGHIES ii ia 10 DESCriIptON cil dilatan 10 NOICE file catalo pes comia a 10 FIG E A A A AS TR as as 10 O 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 2 12
11. also be used as a stand alone voicemail server RLM has been developed under 6 years and is programmed by SM2UMH Peter Hansson living in North Sweden Normally a repeater controller consists of a logic board that controls repeater close timeouts beeps and maybe link radio steering This controller board can be very simple or a very advanced micro controller based model with synthetic speech and advanced features RLM is not based on a controller board It is a PC software that controls repeater radio and links via a simple interface All the functionality is in the PC program This makes it very flexible and RLM I designed so it can fit an almost any environment The repeater administrator can enable or disable functions There is also a possibility to write new DTMF commands for new functions and much more As a RLM user repeater user you get much more value from your repeater You will be able to Leave personal voice messages to your ham friends Record bulletins that affect all users of RLM Test recording for modulation check Check in and outdoor temperature with min max functions Check Repeater User Voicemail statistics Select link channel and connect to other repeaters Check time and date Send CCIR and DTMF Built in CW trainer And much more More info about RLM can be found at the RLM homepage or in the Users Manual http vbk campus luth se rlm or send me an email at rlm vbk campus luth se O 2000 S
12. cessed The answer is YES if RPTOPEN LINKOPEN MONITOR ALARMACTIV ALARMTRIGG COMF LAG CW text speed freq TONE length freq FMSOUND bank freq MELODY notes length SPELL text DELAY time SETPORT num RESPORT num SENDCOM text CHKCOM text STARTRPT CLOSERPT LINK ALT NOT ON BRK OFF MONITOR ALT ON OFF LOADCONFIG num 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden repeater is open repeater and link is open the monitor line of the link radio receiver is active burglar alarm is activated burglar alarm is trigged If the data from the comport matches the data specified in the CHKCOM command Keying text with speed characters per minute and the frequencey freq in HZ Sends a tone in length milliseconds with freq Hz A FM synthesizer sound with frequency freq Playing melodically notes eg MELODY cdeCDE 40 ms Spelling text eg SPELL abc Wait for time in milliseconds Set the port num to ON Set the port num to OFF Sends text on COM port for link radio Do not use spaces Waiting lsec for incoming data on COM port and compare this data with text If a match COMFLAG YES See the IF flag section above n tarting activating the repeater Closing the repeater On Off link BRK ignore if the channel is busy ALT Alternate On Off O ff On link monitor ALT Alternate On Off Loading setup 1 5 http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page
13. dates The date format is YY MM DD So if you have to enter the date 4 of January 2000 you enter 000104 However the output speech of dates is configurable in many different ways The time is in the format HH MM You can configure RLM to work with 24 hour or 12 hour clock 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 6 12 Programming your own DTMF functions Rules You can make your own DTMF commands in RLM For that you using a kind of scripting language described here All your own commands must be in a text file called COMMAND CFG that is located in the RLM program directory You edit the file with a standard text editor such as Notepad or EDIT in DOS If you are in the D menu in set up and you have a program called EDIT COM in your RLM directory you can edit directly from the setup The commands are not stored in Ram so it is interpreted when the command is run Therefore you must always test a new command so you now it works When you create a new DTMF command it will be automatically added to RLM s access list so you can set permission on the command When the command is added to the access list it gets the default A permission Enter the D menu in the setup to change You must be very precise when you edit in the COMMAND CFG file and follow the syntax of the commands exactly as described below You can not skip a value or enter illegal values In the
14. day 11 This month 12 Totally MAILBOX 13 List the last 5 persons logged in 14 List of those who have voicemail 20 Number if active messages 21 In megabytes 22 In minutes 23 Number if in active messages 24 In megabytes 25 In minutes 30 Megabytes free on the hard disk 31 Recording time left on the hard disk 40 Number if DTMF unlocks today 41 This month 42 Totally OTHER 98 Todays date 99 The time 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 10 12 Soundfiles Description RLM uses voice files in Sound Blasters VOC format This is the big voice file standard used before Windows and WAV file became common All this files are used and combined to make RLM talk I have with my sisters help recorded these files in both the Swedish and English language You have all the rights to record new files for your own language I can recommend a shareware program called CoolEdit that can save VOC files This software is downloadable from the Internet The files should be recorded in 8kHz sample rate 8bit MONO RLM also have a build in recording function F7 accessible from the main menu Voice file catalogues There are two different catalogues that RLM use for voicefiles One is called RAMDISK and the other NO_RAMD This is because if you use a slow computer 286 you can load the RAMDISK files to a ramdisk to speed up the files loading whe
15. ecording time left minuters inspelningstid kvar 9004 MIN_T1 Minimum indoor temperature is Mintemperaturen inne r 63 MIN_T2 Minimum outdoor temperature is Mintemperaturen ute ar 64 MONITOR Monitor Monitor 34 MSGS_TO Messages to meddelande till 3 and other MSGSAVED Message saved as number Meddelandet sparat som nummer 3 and other N_GROUPS Enter number of charac in groups of 5 V lj antal grupper om 5 tecken 6001 NEW_BULL There is a new bulletin to listen Det har kommit ny bulletin enter 22 avlyssna med 22 Login NEW_FIN You are now registrated in the mailbx Ny anvandare klar 5303 NEW_MSGS NEW messages nya meddelanden Login NEW_SIGN Record your callsign Spela in din anropssignal 5303 5305 NEW_USER Welcome as a new mailbox user Valk att registrera sig som ny anv 5303 NO_CHAN Channel not available Kanalen r inte tillg nglig 31 NOBODY Nobody Ingen NOT_AVAI Function not available Funktionen r inte tillg nglig When a command has X or S status NOTIDENT didn t identify themselves Stycken identifierade sig inte NOT IN USE NOVIS Novise Novis 5201 5301 NU_USERS Number of users Antal anv ndare 5101 NUM_LOGG Number of loggins Antal inloggningar 5104 NUML_TOD Number of mailbox loggins today Antal inloggningar idag 5105 O 2000 SM2UMH Peter Hansson Sweden http vbk campus luth se rlm RLM 2 6 System operators manual Page 12 12 Filename Engl
16. in 21 BULLFULL Bulletin memory full Bulletinminnet fullt 21 BULLSAVD Bulletin saved Bulletinen sparad 21 CALCULAT Calculator Minir knare NOT IN USE CCIR Enter the CCIR code Sl CCIR koden 81 CHANGE would you like to change to Vill du ndra till 5301 expert novis status CHANNEL Channel Kanal 36 DATE_IS Todays date is Dagens datum r 56 DE_ACTIV The mailbox is now deactivated Mailboxen r nu avaktiverad DTMF Locking ENTCODE2 Enter the code Sla koden Burglar alarm EXPERT Expert Expert 5201 5301 FROM From Fran 2 Bulletine func FROMDATE Enter start date in format year mo day Sl in frandatum I format r m n dag Bulletine func HAVE_LOG has been logged in har varit inloggad 5203 INAMSGMB megabytes inactive messages megabytes inaktiva meddelanden 9009 KIL_LAST Do you want to erase message to Vill du radera meddelandet till 72 KILLUSER Do you want to erase the user Vill du radera anv ndare 5304 9509 LARM The alarm is now Larmet r nu For own DTMF func LASTBOOT The system started Systemet startades 9005 LATEST last logged in Senast inloggad 5203 LINK Link L nk 33 LISTUSER Enter user number to list from V lj anv ndar nummer att lista ifr n 5202 LOOP the loop Slingan 28 MAXTEMP Maximum temperature is Maxtemperaturen r 63 64 MB_FREE megabytes free on the harddisk megabytes ledigt pa h rddisken 9003 MIN_FREE minutes r
17. ish content Swedish content Mostly used in functions OFF Off avslaget ON ON p slaget OP_TODAY Number of activations today Mailboxen har idag aktiverats 5102 DTMF unlocks PLAY_OLD Listen to your old messages Vill du lyssna p dina gamla medd 5207 PLAYINFO Listen to user information Spelar upp anv ndar information 5206 PRESUSER New user registrated Det har kommit till en ny anv ndare Beacon Login REC_BULL Tf you want this message to be active Tryck 1 om meddelandet skall vara for one week press 1 if you want to aktivt i en vecka Tryck 2 for att sj lv enter start and stop date press 2 st lla fran och till datum 21 REC_INFO Do you want to record your personal Vil du spela in information om dig information sj lv 5304 REC_OWN Do you want to record your own file Vill du spela in din egen ljudfil 5307 RPTINFO1 Today the rpt has been activated Idag har repeatern ppnats 6502 RPTINFO2 This month the rpt has been activated Denna m nad har repeatern aktiverats 6503 RPTINFO3 Totally the rpt has been activated Totalt har repeatern aktiverats 6504 RUNTIME1 The runtime is Drifttiden r rpt statistics func RUNTIME2 The repeater has been opened for Repeatern har varit ppen i 6501 SCANNING scanning scanning 32 SEL_CHAN Select channel V lj kanal 31 SETSPEED Enter CW speed V lj telegrafi hastighet 6002 SNOOK Do you want to listen to other users Vill du avlyssna andras meddelanden
18. n RLM playing In this RAMDISK catalogue you have frequently used files such as numbers and standard phrases File list Below is the complete list of sound files used in the RLM repeater controller software The contents of the files are described in both English and Swedish Frequently used files catalog RAMDISK Filename English content Swedish content Mostly used in functions 1_NEWMSG You have one new message Du har fatt ett nytt meddelande Login AT_TIME at Klockan Time CODE ERR Incorrect usercode Fel personkod Error DEGREE degrees grader Temperature functions ENT_CODE Enter the usercode Sl personkoden HAVE_MSG have mail har fatt meddelande 4 HOUR_AND hours and timmar och time functions LOGGED has logged in ra nu inloggad Login LOGOUT You have logged out Du r nu utloggad 0 or auto MINUS Minus Minus Numerical MINUTE minute minut time func MINUTES minutes minuter time func NO_MSGS There are no messages Det finns inga meddelanden 4 NOT_LOGG You haven t logged in Du r inte inloggad When a command has L status PAIR pairs par For game functions POINT point komma Num QUEST1 Is this OK Ar du n jd Standard question QUEST2 Do you want to continue Vill du forts tta Standard question REC_TO Recording message to Spelar in meddelande till 3 and others RECORDED Recorded Inspelat 2 SAVED_AS Message saved as number
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