The *ARRLNEWS* Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) system automatically plays back the ARRL Audio News for EchoLink, IRLP and other Amateur Radio RoIP systems. The home page for ARRlAudio News is at www.arrl.org/arrl-audio-news/.

The *ARRLNEWS* audio transmission will start automatically upon connecting and pause periodically to avoid transmitter timeouts and to allow station ID or local conntrol operator commands. Pauses will occur automatically between news sections where the Morse code K is sent, or if the transmission goes for more than three minutes. Most news sections are less than two minutes. When audio playback is complete the connection is dropped. Users may disconnect at any time. The ARRL Audio News is usually updated weekly on Friday.

If you use the RoIP system to air the ARRL Audio News on your local repeater or transmitter, please send E-mail to audionews@arrl.org to let them know. Or if you have questions about the RoIP audio service, please send an E-mail to WD5M@arrl.net

EchoLink nodes may connect to the conference *ARRLNEWS* node number 826983.

IRLP nodes may connect to experimental IRLP node number 0099. IRLP node owners must enable experimental node access by editing the custom/environment file to include the line:
export ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_NODES=YES

Allstar nodes may connect to Allstar node 516229 in monitor mode to hear ARRL Audio news. By utilizing private Allstar node numbers, in addition to 516229, and routing connections appropriately, each connection should hear the complete ARRL Audio News without necessarily sharing the connection with other connected nodes.

Although all nodes should automatically be disconnected when the audio news completes, monitor your connection and disconnect your node if necessary.

No conferencing or communication is provided between connected nodes. Each connected node hears a seperate copy of the audio stream. Echolink connections utilize the GSM CODEC. IRLP and other connections default to the uncompressed or u-law CODEC.

The *ARRLNEWS* system is similar to the *NEWSLINE* system created by Skip, WB6YMH.

Support: Contact WD5M concerning the ARRLNEWS RoIP server.

History

• July 3, 2025 - Fixed a bug, introduced by a recent change, that caused "all circuits are busy now" instead of news to play.
• June 24, 2025 - Moved the application services to the new Debian 12 VPS Host.
• May 24, 2025 - Changed RPT connections to playback independently from other connections by transferring to private node numbers.
• May 18, 2025 - Changed Web Transceiver connections to playback independently from other connections. This allows multiple Web Transceiver connections to receive audio separately from other connections. Allstar "rpt" connections do not suport this method due to a fixed rpt connect response timeout of a few seconds.
• April 29, 2025 - Added more checks, and disconnect commands, for hanging connections after playback has completed.
• April 26, 2025 - Moved to Allstar ASL3. Improved playback pause method on Allstar.
• June 30, 2024 - Changed Allstar 516229 node to use playback command method.
• November 23, 2023 - Adjusted SilentThresholdTime and SilentThreshold to unkey between segments. ARRL audio is no longer completely silent between segments.
• December 9, 2022 - Added Allstar node 516229.
• June 26, 2022 - Corrected my email address.
• May 13, 2022 - Increased SilentThreshold from 0 to 100 to better detect silence unkey breaks when some low level audio is still present.
• Feb 09, 2022 - Disable authentication on EchoLink nodes to minimize connection delay or failures when node IP address has changed.
• Feb 02, 2022 - Modified theLinkbox to:
  • auto detect audio segments to pause transmission between segements. No more file splitting.
  • auto rewind a few seconds after pause if this occurs within an audio segment.
• Jan 18, 2022 - Changed to split file at news sections and pause transmission between segments, or after exceeding three minutes.