It seems that I’m making about one post a year, so far.
Not exactly stimulating, I’m sure.
Life has had me busy and outside of the hobby of Amateur Radio for the past few months, as family and personal things always seem to be abundant in priority anyway.
I’m still the owner of a 70cm (capable) Motorola Quantar repeater. I’ve asked a friend to help me network it properly into the Allstar system, so that I can perhaps start building a network of radio nodes in the various areas where I’m at. I have mild interest in the P25 networking capabilities of the unit, but I’d really like to get my analog voice Allstar RF node off the ground first.
Interfacing the Quantar into a URI->Raspberry PI configuration seems to be a trivial or somewhat complex thing. But I’m hoping we can figure something out.
I’m already quite used to Allstar operations via VOIP and the PC. Micro nodes seem to be a neat thing to have. RF-wise, I’d like to pop a node into Bradenton (current living situation), and down into Venice. Also one in Lakeland, and up in Mount Dora. I’d also like to get a mobile node up and running in the trunk that uses cellular data to remain on the linked system. All things that will come in good time, I suppose. Along with some time, effort, ability and some money to fund it of course. 😉
Add to the list of todos, oh… along with that General license we still hope to pick up here along the way.
May this not be the last post until a year from now. Fingers crossed…
~Byron