Introduction And Specifications - ACC RC-96 Owner's Manual

Chapter 1
Introduction and
Specifications
The RC-96 Repeater Controller is a complete control system for
conventional private two-way radio repeater stations. It provides
everything needed between the repeater's transmitter and re­
ceiver. The controller serves the traditional repeater control
requirements and provides a host of additional capabilities which
make your repeater more useful. It introduces the concept of
remote programming, which permits changing the repeater's
characteristics from anywhere using Touch-Tone commands.
For example, programming an IDer previously involved con­
structing a diode-matrix read-only memory to form the dits and
dahs of Morse code. The RC-96 controller, on the other hand,
allows you to edit ID messages with your Touch-Tone pad and
store them in the controller's non-volatile memory. But that's
just part of the story - your repeater can talk to you! The IDs can
be in natural-sounding synthesized speech so your users don't
have to be CW buffs to understand what the repeater is saying.
Add to that the RC-96 controller's custom repeater-oriented
speech vocabulary of nearly 500 words, and you can easily
construct informative ID messages for your repeater's users.
If there's a meeting today at 4 o'clock, one of the IDs can say,
"Meeting today at 4, WA6AXX, Repeater." Or on Fridays say,
"TGIF, from WA6AXX, Repeater." Or change the ID messages
for special events using any of the words in its large vocabulary,
in seconds, from anywhere, using your Touch-Tone pad.
The autopatch built into the RC-96 controller is second in capa­
bility only to ACC's RC-850 controller. Gone are the days of
wrong numbers because of a fluttery signal or marginal decoding.
No more fumbling to enter an access code, then the phone num­
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