Recurring Voice Messages And The Scheduler (Continued); Plan! Plan! Plan - Arcom RC210 Operation Manual

Recurring Voice Messages And The Scheduler
First, we program up the needed macros:
Macro 2 calls Say Time on Port 1
*4002 02 162 116
Macro 3 sets the Resume flag On SetPoint 1
*4002 03 680
Macro 4 sets the Suspend flag On SetPoint 1
*4002 04 660
Note: Since Macro 1 is called at controller startup, it should never be used to announce the time, since the clock will never be set at startup.
Now we program our setpoints:
Call Macro 2 every hour on weekdays
*4001 01 8 0A 00 02
Resume Macro 3 at 6 AM on weekdays (we don't need to use the Port setting here)
*4001 02 8 06 00 03
Suspend Macro 4 at 9 AM weekdays (again, we don't need to use the Port setting)
*4001 03 8 09 00 04
Now the controller will announce the time every hour on Port 1, starting at 6 AM on weekdays and stop announcing at 9 AM
The most important step you can do is PLAN. You need to figure out exactly what you want the repeater to do, then how the scheduler
should be programmed in order to accomplish that. The scheduler is pretty smart, but it can't read your mind!
First of all, let's decide on what we want the scheduler to do. Maybe you'd like to turn off certain features at night, leaving them on until
later on the weekends for the night owls. Maybe you have a swap net on Mondays that you would like to monitor. You want to
automatically link Port 1 to Port 2 5 minutes before the start time of the net and turn it back off when the net is over. During the weekday
morning commute, you'd like to change to a different courtesy tone on Port 2 and announce the time every 15 minutes for the
commuters. You also want to put all ports into CTCSS access mode between midnight and 7 am on weekends. Remember that the
scheduler can only call macros, so we need to define some macros to do our bidding
From the above, we first define our setpoints and the macro we'll store the function in:
Setpoint Time Day
1 6:00 am weekdays 2
2 9:00 am weekdays 3
3 7:00 pm Monday
4 8:00 pm Monday
5 12:00 am weekdays 7
6 6:00 am weekdays 8
We first need to program the appropriate macros to function those things we want changed:
*4002 02 163 061 116 Program Macro 2 to change to courtesy tone #2 on Port 2 and announce the time.
*4002 03 060 351 Program Macro 3 to change to courtesy tone back to #1 on Port 2 and suspend announcing the time.
*4002 04 371 Program Macro 4 to resume running Macro 1
*4002 05 118 Program Macro 5 to link Ports 2 & 3
*4002 06 122 Program Macro 6 to unlink Ports 2 & 3
*4002 07 002 004 006 Program Macro 7 to change all ports to CTCSS access
*4002 08 001 003 005 Program Macro 8 to change all ports to carrier access
We can now program the scheduler setpoints:
*4001 01 8 06 00 02
*4001 02 8 09 00 03
*4001 03 8 06 00 04
*4001 04 8 18 55 05
*4001 05 8 20 00 06
*4001 06 9 00 00 07
*4001 07 9 07 00 08
As you can see, if you take the time to plan your setpoints, the RC210 will handle many tedious chores for you, automatically.

Plan! Plan! Plan!

Macro Description
Weekday mornings - change to courtesy tone #2 on Port 2, announce the time
Weekday mornings - back to courtesy tone #1 on Port 2, stop announcing time
5 Turn link on for net
6 Turn link off after net ends
Change all ports to CTCSS access on weekends at midnight
Change all ports to carrier access on weekend mornings at 7 am
Call Macro 2 at 6 AM on weekdays
Call Macro 3 at 9 AM on weekdays
Call Macro 4 at 6 AM to restart Macro 1
Call Macro 5 at 6:55 PM to link Ports 1 & 2
Call Macro 6 at 8 PM to unlink Ports 1 & 2
Call Macro 7 at midnight on weekends
Call Macro 8 at 7 AM on weekends.
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