# funknetz

A headset station for the FM-Funknetz. It joins one reflector talk group and lets the operator listen and speak.

## Language

**FM-Funknetz**:
The German amateur network of linked analog FM stations that this application joins.
_Avoid_: using that name for this application

**Station**:
This application’s presence on a reflector, named by a callsign. It has no radio of its own.
_Avoid_: node, client, channel, hotspot

**Reflector**:
The conference that forwards audio among stations that have joined the same talk group. One talk group has at most one talker.
_Avoid_: server, bridge

**Talk group**:
A numbered audio room on the reflector. The station joins one talk group for the whole run.
_Avoid_: channel, room

**Talker**:
The station currently sending audio on a talk group.
_Avoid_: transmitter

**Callsign**:
The uppercase amateur call sign that names this station on the reflector.
_Avoid_: a lowercase spelling, username, node id

**Auth key**:
The secret the network issues for this station’s callsign, used to prove identity to the reflector.
_Avoid_: certificate, a password sent in the clear

**Push-to-talk**:
The operator holding the control that makes this station the talker. Releasing it returns the station to listening.
_Avoid_: voice-operated transmit, a mute toggle