KPC3+ with Peet Brothers Weather Station + Digipeater + Telemetry!

November 14, 2009

This project is part of the 'Intertie, Incorporated' System of Texas and is to be placed at Pandale,Tx on the Texas-Mexican border. Here is a 'cheat sheet/data' to do this.

Equipment: Peet Brothers Ultimeter 2000/2100 (cheap on ebay $100-$200), KPC3+, Cables, 2 meter radio, power supply.

This is an initialization file for configuring the KCP3+ for K5DRT-1/weather station + digipeater and telemetry. If you copy this file and as an ascii and upload using Windows HyperTerminal, you will have a complete setup! Notice: all lines with the ( ) will be ignored.

Setup for Windows HyperTerminal: 9600 baud, 8N1 for the KPC3+

Under 'file/properties'/ascii setup change line delay to 200ms and character delay to 10ms

To send this file, click on 'transfer'then 'send text file'.

If you start the KPC3+ / NEW or from 'restore d', then at the 'CMD' prompt do:

mycall xxxxxx

intface terminal

You can download your setup by typing 'display'.

CABLES

Peet Wx-RJ45/6pin to Db9M, Peet Ultimeter 2000 data-2400 baud, 8N1

RJ45, pin 3(data) to Db9, pin 2

RJ45, pin 5(gnd) to Db9, pin 6

RJ45 pin out- looking at the front of the plug, latch down, pin 1 is on the right

Computer serial/Db25-KPC3, pin 2(data in), pin 3(data out), pin 7 gnd

RADIO to KPC3+, Db9M, pin 1.mic 3.ptt 5.disc (open SQ) 6.gnd

Make another cable to the KPC3, Db9, pin 2/XCD and pin 6 to a DB9F, pin 2data pin 6 gnd. This is the weather plugin. By using the command 'gpsport 2400 normal nocheck', this turns on the KPC3/DB9, pin 2 for the weather data input. This lets you use the Db25 for computer programming without having to switch between weather and programming......plug /unplug.

Be sure to use '!!' for GPSHEAD. Do not use modem mode, complete record mode or packet mode [$ULTW] in the Ultimeter 2000.If you use the above, you will be in trouble if you have a power outage.

TELEMETRY ***[// NO VOLTAGE OVER 5 VOLTS \\]***

Look up on the Internet http://home.teleport.com/~n3eg/kpc3telem.html for more info.

Programming- 'telemetry 200' = beacon every 33 min.

'range 0:25.0/0:25.0/-490:440/....'

An 0=0 to 25.0v DC power supply

An 1=0 to 1, Inside ALARM, 1=OK,0=Alarm,lights on

An 2= LM335 inside temperature

An 3=

TELEMETRY 1. 12.0V, 0 or 1 Alarm, 3.INSIDE TEMP., 4.0, 5.0

Peet Power Supply [OVP]

For safety of the Peet Brothers weather station, I cut the 12v trace in the junction box and put a series diode (1N4005), ferrite bead then a 150uF to ground. Also, a 16v, 1/2w zenner across the capacitor. The wallwart is a 9v, 400 ma and not the regular 12v. Most 12v P.S. put out about 15-17v.

Be sure to change on your setup: BTEXT,CTEXT,LT1-4,MYCALL,MYNODE MYREMOTE,MYPBBS,RANGE,RTEXT,UIFLOOD,XMITLEVEL

73,DINK, WA5LNL

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8BITCONV ON

ABAUD 9600

AUTOLF ON

AX25L2V2 ON

AXDELAY 0

AXHANG 0

BEACON EVERY 28

BKONDEL ON

BLT 1 E 00:12:00 START 00:01:05

BLT 2 E 00:14:00 START 00:00:34 CLEAR

BLT 3 E 00:34:00 START 00:03:00

BLT 4 E 00:23:00 START 00:00:41

BREAK OFF

BTEXT PANDALE,TX/DIGI + APRS WEATHER /DM90id

BUDLIST OFF NONE

CANLINE $18

CANPAC $19

CD SOFTWARE

CHECK 0

CMDTIME 1

CMSG DISC

COMMAND $03

CONLIST OFF NONE

CONMODE CONVERS

CONOK ON

CONPERM OFF

CPACTIME OFF

CR ON

CRSUP OFF

CSTAMP OFF

CTEXT REMOTE WEATHER STATION @2387ft,CONTACT GREG,K5DRT/ BYE!

CTRL A OFF

CTRL B OFF

CWID EVERY 0

CWIDTEXT

DAYSTR mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss

DAMA OFF

DAMACHCK 18

DBLDISC OFF

DELETE $08

DIGIPEAT ON

DWAIT 0

ECHO ON

ESCAPE OFF

FLOW ON

FILTER OFF

FRACK 4

FULLDUP OFF

GPSINIT

GPSHEAD 2 !!

HBAUD 1200

GPSPORT 2400 NORMAL NOCHECK

GPSTIME VALID RMC

HEADERLN OFF

HID OFF

HTEXT

***INTFACE INT GPS

LEDS ON

LCOK ON

LFADD ON

LFSUP OFF

LLIST OFF NONE

LT 1 !3008.83N/10119.50W_PAN.TX/1

LT 2

LT 3 !3008.83N/10119.50W_PHG5630/PAN,TX/TNX BARS+INTERTIE,INC./3

LT 4 !3008.83N/10119.50W_PHG5630/PAN,TX/VAL VERDE CO./4

LTP 1 APN391

LTP 2 APN391 VIA WIDE3-3

LTP 3 APN391 VIA WIDE2-2

LTP 4 APN391 VIA WIDE3-3

LTRACK 0

MONITOR ON

MALL ON

MAXFRAME 4

MAXUSERS 10

MBEACON ON

MCON OFF

MCOM OFF

MHEADER ON

MRESP OFF

MRPT ON

MSTAMP OFF

MXMIT ON

MYCALL K5DRT-1

MYALIAS DISABL

MYDROP 0

MYNODE K5DRT-15

MYPBBS K5DRT-12

MYREMOTE K5DRT-14

NDWILD OFF

NEWMODE ON

NOMODE OFF

NTEXT

NUMNODES 0

PACLEN 0

PACTIME AFTER 10

PASS $16

PASSALL OFF

PBBS 5

PBFORWRD NONE EVERY 0

PBHEADER ON

PBHOLD ON

PBKILLFW OFF

PBLIST OFF NONE

PBLO NEW VARIABLE

PBPERSON OFF

PBREVERS ON

PERSIST 210

PID OFF

PMODE CMD

PTEXT

RANGE 0:25.0/0:1/-490.0:440.0/0:0/0:0

REDISPLA $12

RELINK OFF

RETRY 5

RING ON

RNRTIME 0

RTEXT W5EX

SCREENL 0

SENDPAC $0D

SLOTTIME 10

START $11

STOP $13

STREAMSW $7C

STREAMCA OFF

STREAMEV OFF

SUPLIST OFF

SWP 17,17,108

TELEMTRY 200

TRACE OFF

TRFLOW OFF

TRIES 10

TXDELAY 29

TXFLOW OFF

UNPROTO APN391 VIA WIDE2-2

UIDIGI ON WIDE5-2,WIDE5-3,WIDE5-4,WIDE5-5

UIDUPE 30

UIDWAIT OFF

UIFLOOD TX,30,ID

UITRACE WIDE,30

USERS 1

XFLOW ON

XKCHKSUM OFF

XKPOLLED OFF

XMITLVL 25

XMITOK ON

XOFF $13

XON $11