Several of the Colorado repeater clubs use voting receivers on their repeaters to extend repeater coverage into the Colorado foothills, especially for users with handheld radios. The repeaters mostly use the Micro-Node RTCM as their voting receiver controller, though some use the original Jim Dixon Voter Board design. These clubs have become concerned that as the original design ages, parts will become harder to find. The Voter2 design resolves these issues for the foreseeable future. While fully interoperable with the original Voter Board design, the Voter2 is a completely new ground-up design effort with a planned long life. CPU and memory component sizes have been chosen to provide plenty of room for additional features.
The Voter2 is VOTER Protocol compliant and designed to fully interoperate in a mixed environment with original RTCMs, Voter Boards and an AllstarLink Voter Server. The Voter2 design also includes a basic standalone “local mode” repeater function for fallback operation during loss of Voter Server connectivity. The Voter2-MTR2K board design is Motorola MTR2000 Option Slot-specific,
but a standalone version is in development.
Hardware Compatibility
- MTR2000 Option Slot-Compatible
- Plugs into Option Slot #1 or #2
AllstarLink Voting
- VOTER Protocol-Compliant
- Interoperable with Other VOTER Protocol Compatible Devices
- Supports Transmitter Simulcast Operation (Planned)
Configuration Access
- Telnet to Voter2 Board
- USB Mini-B Serial Console to Voter2 Board
- ser2net to MTR2000 RSS
External Connections
- GPS Active Antenna Connector
- USB Mini-B Serial Console Connector
- Ethernet 10/100 Full Duplex
- RS-232 UART to MTR2000 RSS (ser2net-compatible)
Other Features
- Non-volatile Configuration Storage
- Optional On-Board GPS Module
- GPS Active Antenna Powered by the Voter2
Board - Status LEDs
o Ethernet
▪ Green: Connection Speed
▪ Yellow: Activity
o Power: Green
o Heartbeat: Flashing Green
o Receive Status
▪ Signal Strength: Off/Yellow/Green/Red
o PTT: Red
o Connected: Authorized to Voter Server
o GPS Link State: Off/Receiving/Sync’ed
GPS Receiver
- Optional Field Installable u-blox M8
- Factory Installed ST Teseo LIV4
- Provides Time-of-Day and 1 PPS Timing
Documentation
Open Source!
- Coming SOON!
Availability
- Beta Sites Fall 2025, Availability Q1 2026
Pricing
- TBD