Very cheap Zello crosslink to PMR446 radio 

Honestly you don't know how happy it makes me to see someone who's actually clever enough to make this from watching the video. There have been countless people commenting who had no clue on how to set this up and wanted detailed step by step instructions even though I roughly showed how it works in the video. So thank YOU for being one of the few people who use their brain.

this is like instant encryption setup. pretty sick.

Please please please help us. we are an Youth Cadet Program in South Africa. We have a community policing project that we busy setting up for youth from various areas. We have baofeng radios for the boys on the ground, but to link back to our HQ and between the various units I was thinking of using zello interfaced to the 2 way radios. Can you please help me with this. Ive got no clue how to start even. can you get me on facebook or via our websit www.shr.org.za my facebook facebook.com/wdcs67 then we can exchange numbers and email. will be much appreciated

Walter, get someone smart to watch this video and they should be able to see how it's done.

Thanks for the nice comment

Kevin Leui Thanks for the comment. I checked out your channel, it looks like it works really well!

+rad iosification

Where did you find your roip gate way and how much did it cost you?

1st - check VOX setup. 2nd - check wiring diagram on miklor site (I still do not know, how some radios can work with standard jack to jack cable - pinout of notebook do not fit with pinout of radio - V+ and MIC. Still, some radios works well).

Hello warlike talkie

Yeah they look really good and they should have loud audio as well. It would make zello seem more usable for serious applications

Definitely! Just a shame about the price though

Yeah they're not as simple as normal speaker mics though, because they have to have all the bluetooth circuitry, so I'd say a cost of $50 is not that excessive.

I might get one sometime and try it

Yes it could! I was just using the equipment I had available at the time. I didn't have a way to separate the mic and speaker connections on the HT.

You would need the audio side of the radio into the microphone side of the PC to do a listen only feed which you could then listen to via your smartphone on Zello

The Zello app does not allow that, no. However you can create a wifi hotspot on most phones which lets another device use the cellular internet connection via that phone. Zello would work fine over that.

no, the phone itself will not talk to the other phone over 3G/4G - the protocol doesn't allow it. You could - at least in theory - use one of these MESH network devices or apps, jumpiung on/over all phones in range, so they will let you route your HT -> zello call to the internet and then further to the zello in the other phone. (one of these interesting projects is The Serval Mesh, but sadly this is very underdeveloped area - there is no incentive where is know-how)

Nvm I see this is covered down below - Thanks!!!

Obviously not. It relies on the internet. If you don't have internet of course it won't work

what i meant was, the internet is at home is for the handphone (zello), while i took the radio with me. the radio doesn't need the internet to work.

Sorry I don't mean to be rude but I don't think there is any polite way to say this. Has a two way radio like this EVER needed the internet to work? Did you try using your brain before asking a question? Will what you connect another radio to affect in any way whether the radio on the other end needs the internet? Obviously, if the radio never even had the ability to connect to the internet then how would it not being in range of internet make ant difference at all? As long as both the laptop and the phone have internet it will obviously work if the radio is in range

then it's a useless guide. and thank you for your time.

@@radiosification don't be rude, it's not about inteligence, it's about knowledge, if someone don't know how radio works, then they simply can't understand as easily as you do, i found your guide confusing even tho i'm familiar with radio amateur bands and used an RTL-SDR before, there was no basic introduction to what is zello and what is used for

In that case why not just use Zello directly? Using a crosslink like this will only give you worse audio and unreliable connection

It should definitely work fine with a single radio. I just didn't have the right connectors to do it that way in this video. Good luck

+Wes Dison because every radio has a frequency to talk in. so it wont clashes into other peoples chat line

+jean-michel burger I don't think so, or at least I don't know how to do it. It has to go through a soundcard at some point to convert the audio to digital so the computer can process it.

So how would u do it with a sound card?

is there a way of using a male to male Jack? what sound card would I need?

Why don't you just connect it the normal way? Taking it apart just to connect the wires directly is a load of effort and gives no real advantage.

+radiosification Ok cool so how do I do that. sorry I'm a noob at radios

But then it would not be cheap would it..... The whole idea is to make it from parts I already had, not to buy expensive equipment.

ector manganyi it uses the internet.

Juhani Rantakallio That's exactly what he's doing....146.05625.

Actually it is 446.05625 but the frequency is not so important. The setup would be exactly the same but you just use VHF radios instead of the UHF ones I am using here

No it isn't. Maybe that's what you use it for but that's not the whole point of it. There are many different uses. The range of one walkie talkie could extend out of the area of internet coverage anyway. If you only have internet at home for example and live in the countryside and there is no mobile phone signal. Only one walkie talkie has to be connected to the computer. The other can be used anywhere else within range.

radiosification ah.. it's like i carry a walkie talkie in a freight ship connected to the captan's notebook and my father can talk with me through a Zello app in his smartphone?

Yes you could do that assuming the notebook had a good enough internet connection. But in that case you could just use zello on the notebook directly instead.

sounds quite a handy thing

nazir niyo Truth but even though Zello has to have the internet to function but it still has a great advantage over the regular walkie talkies because it records important conversations and you can communicate with anyone almost around the world if you has internet or Wi-Fi and you can create your own radio channel with in your group of people like as your coworkers, family, or friends, or even strangers like in hurricane disasters events the point that I'm trying to make is Zello is a great way and idea of communication.

right next to each other, as you can see in the video

radiosification the distace, meaning the range, how far can you go before the signal stops working from home base.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way_radio#Range

The walkie talkie DOES go over radio, obviously. It has to reach the connection to Zello over radio, so the distance is that.

How is it not useful just because it uses the internet? There is nothing wrong with using the internet. This video is not meant for prepping.

This is actually an amazing idea, if using from multiple buildings..

Видео показывает, как это сделать

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Explain a little bit more please, I am new to this

No, it's not a repeater. It only crosslinks to zello that's all.

@@radiosification your plumbing transmission from scanner into zello and zello broadcasts it not sure how its differnet than what a repeater would do just different tech

@@Vegasman77704 A repeater listens on one frequency and then transmits the same thing back out on another frequency to give greater coverage to radios using the repeater. A crosslink like this does not repeat it back out on another frequency, it only goes into zello when this system hears something.

What an idiot. A phone can receive audio over the internet, which is exactly what is happening here.

radiosification which makes it pretty useless since it needs a pc

How does that make it useless?

radiosification because you need first a walkie-talkie which defeats the purpose already and secondly a laptop to carry arround just to have the walkie talkie via your phone

No, you are missing the point completely. This is a gateway to the internet. You set up the laptop with one walkie talkie. Then you can talk to anyone on zello through another walkie talkie. Let's say you have a large property and no mobile internet or wifi. Only internet at your computer. Then you can connect this and use it to talk on a walkie talkie to people online, and you can use it over the whole range of your walkie talkies which would be much greater than the range of wifi.

So, can you get an FRN app on android?

Yeah but thats stupid and a waste of a device money and energy. I just use raspberrypi

So if you want to talk to someone else with a walkie talkie, but you're out of the coverage area, you would carry a raspberry pi to talk to them, and have to plug in a headset, screen, keyboard etc.? I think that seems a lot more stupid than simply using a phone. Maybe you should use your brain properly before posting nasty comments.

You're too fucking dumb to even understand your own setup. Tosser.

@@KandiKlover Shut the hell up, Sheldon, you need some chill. I bet you were that stupid 7 years ago

The whole idea was that its very cheap. If I used a signalink it would be very expensive.