Introducing: Silver Node! Low cost AllStar Link
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2023
- This month, Don WB6LPJ introduces the Sierra Foothills ARC to his "Silver Node" project. This is an AllStar Node that he built from a Raspberry Pi, an inexpensive Baofeng radio, and a few other pieces, creating a node similar to the popular "ClearNode" product.
References:
HamVOIP Software download: www.hamvoip.org/#download
Software Setup instructions: www.hamvoip.org/howto/hamvoip...
Cell phone App (including pricing): www.node-ventures.com/shari/
AllStarLink.org (request node number): www.allstarlink.org/ - Наука та технологія
Brilliant! My kind of people! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. I always learn so much from you guys and regularly tune into the Monday night net.
Cool stuff
Great video, is this being sold complete? I am interested in one. thank you and 73 Rob - K6IRK
Thanks a lot for posting this. I would be interested in a build session. Where do I sign up?
73,
Frank
Hi Don, nice job with the build and the presentation! You kept saying that your build had the same capabilities as the Clearnode....is that true? I believe Hamvoip and your build can only do the Allstar mode, it can't do the other digital modes like P25, DMR, C4FM, etc....... or can it? Supporting all the modes is an attractive feature of the Clearnode.
ClearNode does not support digital modes (you cannot transmit through it digitally) but it does seem to bridge audio patches to other modes. You will always be analog
Got the all the parts, except for Raspberry Pi 3b which arrives Thursday. What case did Don use to hold everything?
Sorry for the delay. I checked with Don and he replied: "The SilverNode enclosure was from Amazon, ASIN. B077Z3R246. This item is currently unavailable, but ASIN B0107WU67M appears to be identical.
Within this enclosure I stacked two layers of printed circuit boards, bottom for Pi and radio on upper layer. It does take some planning to get things to fit. If possible I’d go with a little larger box of different material…. Plastic. Reason: the aluminum box shields the Pi’s internal WIFI antenna and reduces the range."
I think the word you were looking for, for the Clearnode, was _turnkey_ ... ALSO, correction: A Pi Zero is NOT sufficient to run Allstar but a Pi Zero 2W _is_ .
Can echolink be added?
Are you selling them
This is me finding out I've been calling him LBJ for two months.
GMRS also runs on raspberry pi, but for some reason the ham community wants to keep us separated.
I did look at clear node, but we GMRS users are excluded from buying it, just plain ham snobbery.