RoA is software that glue's analog technologies such as a radio transceiver into the digital arena through the Asterisk iPBX using inexpensive hardware.

RoA can interface with analog systems that are (full or half) duplex or simplex using a serial or parallel port for keying the transmitter and detecting the carrier state of an analog system with the audio path provided by a common sound card.

The interface is not costly nor "special" and can be made from common parts found at a local electronics shop, computer swap meet or around your home.

End users control RoA via DTMF by keying in the access code then the (node) number you wish to connect with or RoA can be configured to open an autocall to a preset number on carrier detection.

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News:

6th March 2011 - RoABSD is now unmaintained

17th August 2010 - RoABSD 0.4.4 BETA release

16th December 2009 - RoABSD 0.4.3 BETA release

15th December 2009 - RoA 0.6.3 BETA release

7th November 2009 - RoABSD 0.4.2 BETA release

Why:

My interest in networking, Unix like OSes and communications found me interested in Asterisk, which lead me to my interest in a non-amateur linking project.

I found "Phone Patch for Asterisk" by Arnau Sanchez which had an easy built radio interface and worked under Linux/BSD but it was unmaintained so RoA was born.

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