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Build a portable Allstar Link Hotspot – Part 5 Putting it into a box

Posted on September 11, 2018

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 […]

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Allstar Network, Ham Radio, Projects

Build a portable Allstar Link Hotspot – Part 3 Sound Card FOB mods

Posted on August 22, 2018

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 […]

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Build a portable Allstar Link Hotspot – Part 2 Radio mods

Posted on August 22, 2018

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 […]

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Build a portable Allstar Link Hotspot – Part 1 Intro

Posted on August 22, 2018

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 […]

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