Weather conditions continue to look good for launch on Friday morning. One day out, I trust the weather reports are pretty good and the predicted ground winds in the area are calm. The rain storm has given Southern California some much needed rain but it is also moving out this afternoon and should be long […]
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 […]