The *ARRLNEWS* Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) system automatically plays back the ARRL Audio News for EchoLink, IRLP and Allstar Amateur Radio RoIP systems.
If you use this 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
EchoLink nodes may connect to the conference *ARRLNEWS* node number 826983.
IRLP
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
AllstarLink
Allstar nodes may connect to Allstar node 516229 to hear ARRL Audio news. Each incoming connection should hear the complete ARRL Audio News without sharing the audio with other nodes. Each incoming node connection is automatically muted from sending audio to 516229 and other connected nodes.
Operation
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. We suggest setting your local transmitter time out (TOT) to 180 seconds. 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. The home page for ARRlAudio News is at www.arrl.org/arrl-audio-news/.
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.
Additional Information
The *ARRLNEWS* system is similar to the *NEWSLINE* system created by Skip, WB6YMH.
Contact WD5M concerning the ARRLNEWS RoIP server.
theLinkbox statistics for EchoLink / IRLP connection since last restart:
Uptime: 20 days, 16 hours and 40 minutes
Tx packets: 1349399, 523.80 Mbytes
Rx packets: 45077, 13.24 Mbytes
Connections: 414
Users: 0 of 99 Max
Bandwidth Tx: 0 Kbps, Rx: 0 Kbps
Peak users: 3, 9/13 20:33
Peak Tx bandwidth: 34 Kbps @ 9/13 20:23
Peak Rx bandwidth: 1 Kbps @ 9/17 9:14
Allstar 516229 statistics since last restart:
Keyups today.....................................: 120
Keyups since system initialization...............: 979
TX time today....................................: 02:12:30:795
TX time since system initialization..............: 17:39:49:944
Uptime...........................................: 84:32:30
14724
total Allstar connections to date
History
- October 2, 2026 - ARRLNews has contained news sgements longer than two to three minutes. I may edit the file to insert more pauses, but some may have long segments until I can update the file. The audio file has been released somewhat later than than usual on Friday mornings. The automatic update process may miss updates if they occur much later than expected.
- September 4, 2026 - The ARRLNews update for September 4, 2026 is late.
- March 3, 2026 - Re-enabled access from private node numbers (less than 2000). Will monitor for issues, as private node numbers may not be unique, and may cause conflicts.
- January 22, 2026 - Add note that private Allstar node numbers (less than 2000) will not connect.
- October 20, 2025 - An outage occured on the Allstar side today. The root cause is unknown at this time.
- August 20, 2025 - Fixed web transceiver playback.
- August 15, 2025 - Updated theLinkbox to fix disconnect at end of audio playback.
- July 13, 2025 - Connecting Allstar nodes are now muted automatically.
- 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.
