The EASIEST ALL STAR Node Interface - With Integrated Radio & Sound Card 

I think Andy would be jealous🙃

Thank you too!

To program the SA818 with CTCSS 0f 77 connect unit put in your TX RX frequency and replace the 00 with 04 for RX and TX CTCSS. Now push the WriteFRS button a number of times until you don't get errors reported in top window. Then remove your programmed unit. Don’t use the WriteSA818 button!

@pen25 The SHARI PiHat is exactly that.

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Using hamvoip

working on establishing a GMRS repeater up near a rural bike trail, lake and wildlife preserve. Are you configuring these repeaters with allstars controllers, simply providing an out of band control option for these repeaters, or simply using one of these devices with the repeaters to provide a linking option to other GMRS repeaters in the network? I'm OK with any of these options but somewhat interested in setting up a hamvoip node, either standalone or networked, to act as a controller. Among other things I understand that one of the options is to establish a PL or CTCSS tone as an 'emergency' tone that if received allows someone monitoring for that to filter out the traffic that's not emergency traffic.

@@RNMSC I use hamvoip running on a Pi 3B+. Its connected to the Octane network. Hamvoip is also a used to connect to Allstar. I should have said nodes. My repeater uses the same hamvoip software but uses a RIM lite. The nodes use the Radio/soundcard in the video.

@@thomasdukes7698 I found ways of getting raspberry Pi's during the drought, Mostly by being prepared to buy whatever was available when I found one in store. So I have a collection, including a 3b+ or several (I also have some that I drove 3d printers with for years tsome of which can be repurposed) For a test setup, I have a repeater module that simply plugs into a couple of handheld radios, and a couple of type accepted radios that I can turn into a repeater with a duplexer that I'm waiting on. Antenna on a 20' poll already, and solar for power. Long term I do want to get a more professional and remotely managable setup. As I'm not living full time there, and this setup I won't leave unattended longer than it takes to go into town for a bit of shopping and promotion of the repeater..(If I head to the casino to see a movie, the repeater gets powered down. At least until I have someone else available who can locally monitor/maintain it. But having an astrisk node on a Pi there, and one of these devices set up to connect when I'm local, seems like a reasonable long term plan. Not ideal, but better than nothing, I think. That said, yeah, I'm going to need to work out the interfaces, which will probably have to wait till I find some type accepted for part 95e radios that will do more than 5 watts. That's research work. :-)

The antenna shown in the thumbnail is just for the thumbnail. Not entirely sure if its even resonant on uhf. However, I think you can get little, angled antennas like this for UHF and VHF from places like ebay or amazon. Cheers

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There must be a step you have missed.

@@TechMindsOfficial Do you have the exact image you are using please as the one I have is superman 6.2.2+ and I've followed 2 guides yours included and as soon as you change 1998 to my node number supermon stops displaying anything and the only difference my image is using 6.2.2+

Put it in your cupboard then 😅

I'm adding rack mounting tabs to mine so it and the pi take up 1U of my relay rack.

Ok, so were you here just to boast, Sad Ham?

LOL, yeah when I see Salmon anglers when I’m hiking I always shout down to them that Walmart sells it for $9.86/lb.

@@xxmrrickxx When I'm driving on the highway and CBer asks for a radio check, I tell them that it's $29.95 at Walgreens for a radio check.

​@@Pahrump they're a sad ham for supporting the use of cellphones? I don't get it.

Are you actually that tedious, or is it just an Illinois thing?

The original SHARI from Kits4Hams says this.... "A fully assembled and tested SHARI is $90 (UHF and VHF). We build and test your kit for you. You are still responsible for proper operation in the amateur radio service."

Some don’t want to be a sadham, kits for hams is the leader in the sadham community. I and many others have no intention of getting a ham license, and they won’t sell to those without a ham license. I own 4 of these running 4 different nodes and never had a problem with them, they work great.

Those days are long gone and computer to computer have taken over.ft8 has taken over the world 😂

Hey, go for it! Who knows, maybe there's someone listening who will rag chew with you. Or maybe not, and all you've verified is that the repeater you can reach still has a functioning controller. Or does it? I've worked with repeaters that have wire-wrapped control interfaces (with far more features than you'll find on many of the "modern" repeater controllers) through repeaters using Allstars nodes as their repeater controller. I'm kind of in favor of losing the elletist analog only folk from the repeater if that means I have the opportunity to interact with millions of other amateur operators with other interests, some of which I may share. I'm not saying that allstars is perfect. I'm in general agreement with operators who will argue that if you're primary communications method is using the Internet, then your backup communications option shouldn't be using the Internet. Or if not the Internet, whatever you're primary option is, say cellular networking. But if you're arguing that it shouldn't even be an option, I'd argue that neither should you have a phone patch on your repeater, and those have been around since long before the start of the Internet. The fact that an allstars user can link up their HT to a repeater that's not in range, doesn't make for bad amateur radio. Though there are others with other opinions on the subject. And I'm OK with that.

Pi3b is perfectly fine for an AllStar node.