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NXR-810 automated audio announcements

Delmustator

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Greetings all. I have a Kenwood NXR-810 UHF repeater that I would like to add audio announcements (e.g., top of the hour time, temp, and possibly local events). I have a Raspberry Pi 4B available for this project. I've heard local HAM repeaters that do this but I think they are Motorola's. Has anyone successfully accomplished this?
 

mmckenna

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The rear DB25 connector has all the pins you need to interface to the repeater. Doing the interface between the Pi and the repeater will take some work. Usually a repeater controller handles this and has the PTT and audio handling capability.
 
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