Thinking inside the box Making the enclosure for the portable Allstar node. After finishing with the electronics the node needed a permanent box. The pictures are mostly self explanatory, but I have added a few comments as needed next to the pictures below. The construction of my box was made from thin Baltic birth plywood […]
Now that you have both the Radio and Sound Card FOB wired up and your Raspberry Pi on hand we need to tie everything together. Most of the articles I found put the required Fob to Radio interface electronic components in-line with the wires to the radio or the sound fob. Since my build is going […]
Modifying the sound card fob The Allstar Link software needs to interface to the radio in order to control Push To Talk (PTT), recognize when a signal is present on the radio (COS) and also manage the TX & RX audio streams between the Raspberry Pi and the radio. All of these functions are achieved using […]
Modifying the Baofeng BF-888S radio Start with Programming the Radio Before you modify the radio, it will be easiest to program your BF-888s first As shipped the BF888s is pre-programmed with commercial frequencies. To set up the radio on the ham bands it needs to be programmed. Info on how to program the radio is […]
A self contained portable Allstar node What is this project about? The goal of this project it to build a cheap, small and portable Allstar base station node that can be used in a hotel room or some other travel scenario, such as inside an RV at camp. The node should be self-contained and be […]
