Callwatch – Peerwatch – Bridgewatch

PNWDigital c-Bridge Callwatch Pages

PNW	pnw-a.dev.pnwdigital.org:42420	Located in Bremerton, serving repeaters in Washington, West of the Cascades and the Western MMDVM servers
PNW-B	pnw-b.dev.pnwdigital.org:42420	Located in Freemont California, to be decommissioned by fall of 2020; all repeaters have been moved off and only the Parrot and several MMDVM servers yet to move
PNW-D	pnw-d.dev.pnwdigital.org:42420	Located in Kennewick, serving repeaters in Southeastern Washington, most of Oregon and Utah as well as Parrot, East MMDVM and other specialty servers
PNW-E	pnw-e.dev.pnwdigital.org:42420	Located in Spokane, serving repeaters in most of Washington East of the Cascades and Western Idaho

How it Works

Callwatch:  The latest version of c-Bridge (our networking control) has changed the name of NetWatch to CallWatch.  c-Bridges are computers configured as talkgroup servers and they manage everything that cross into, through and out of, the PNWDigital network.

We maintain 3 primary c-Bridges and manage traffic and loading relatively equally.  Outside talkgroups come from 3 primary sources; Brandmeister, DMR-MARC and other c-Bridges.  All 3 c-Bridges have incoming talkgroups so that the load is more balanced and any potential failures can be minimized.

By selective use of Callwatch, you may search for a single talkgroup, repeater, MMDVM server, a user by call sign or name, a city, town or state, a c-Bridge, etc.  Whatever you wish filter that can appear in Callwatch, is filterable or searchable.

CallWatch typically holds 1,500 call records.  Much of the traffic in our call history is from talkgroups not native to PNWDigital.  There are 2 available filters, Accept text and Reject text  that may be used to reduce the call history.  It can be managed to favor PNWDigital, affiliated networks or conversely to other networks that may be of interest.  Both filters may be used simultaneously as well as with multiple text entries via piping.

Handy Callwatch Filters

PNW-A	a.pnwdigital.info	PNW (actual name) is located in Bremerton, serving repeaters in Washington, West of the Cascades and the Western MMDVM servers
PNW-D	d.pnwdigital.info	Located in Kennewick, serving repeaters in Southeastern Washington, most of Oregon and Utah as well as Parrot, Eastern MMDVM and other specialty servers
PNW-E	e.pnwdigital.info	Located in Spokane, serving repeaters in most of Washington East of the Cascades and Western Idaho
PNW-D MM’s	mm.pnwdigital.info	Shows only MMDVM traffic on the PNWDigital network.  Useful for testing new hotspots or connectivity
PNW-A WA2 Net	wa2.pnwdigital.info	Shows only Washington 2 traffic.  Useful for watching check-in during some nets

It is recommended that members use the links below rather than the stock links in the above table, as your default Callwatch pages to limit the extraneous call entries.

Specialized Sample URL’s to Filter Callwatch’s Call History

Below are samples to show the syntax to use for the dynamic features of CallWatch and Bridgewatch

Pipes may be used to stack-up additional accepted or rejected traffic as shown in the above table.  A pipe is the vertical bar, typically a shifted backslash on most keyboards. Some browsers may not accept or stack up the pipes correctly.  You may substitute : %7C for the pipe symbol.  While you are at it, use: %20 rather than a space just to be safe.

Any characters that you see appear in Callwatch can be used for the filter including the pipe character to string text together for filters, including the space. The characters are case sensitive.

You may create your own URL’s, save them as favorites and easily customize your traffic history. 

Decoding the symbols in Callwatch’s User Radio ID’s (to be phased out by 2022)

The radio ID aliases in the c-bridges may have symbols suffixed to a users RID such

WA7DMR$amrv	Example of any or all of the currently used symbols
$	Donations made to support PNWDigital (now only appearing here)
a	Administration team member
m	MMDVM registered user
r	Repeater owner on the PNWdigital network
t	Technical team member (tech@dev.pnwdigital.org)
v	Victor manager access

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Peerwatch

The colored horizonal and vertical bars indicate status and activity:

• Yellow highlights indicate that a repeater has an internet issue which may effect its network ability
• Green is talkgroup voice activity on and from, that repeater
• Red is talkgroup destination activity to the repeater
• Top color bar denotes timeslot 1 voice activity
• Bottom color bar denotes timeslot 2 voice activity
• Data activity is green and red also. They appear very briefly as data is very quick compared to voice packets
  • Left vertical bar is data on timeslot 1
  • Right vertical bar is data on timeslot 2

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Bridgewatch

First Published: September 18, 2021 Last Updated: 1 year ago by Mike – NO7RF

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