AllStar Link


Echolink Node : AP2CJ-R
AllStar Node : 48092

 

AllStar Link is a network of publicly-accessible Amateur Radio Repeaters and remote base stations connected through a Voice over IP (VOIP) internet connection. AllStar Link has much in common with Echolink and IRLP in that it is a collection of linkable remote nodes. A significant difference is that AllStar uses commonly available, inexpensive hardware and open source software to create the network. As a result, it is much easier to set up, maintain, and use. The voice quality is better and easier to maintain. Of course, much of that is my somewhat biased opinion.

My setup:
1. Raspberry Pi-1 B with 8GB Sd card
2. RasLink from https://jlappliedtechnologies.com/raslink/ (Many thanks to Jeremy Lincicome W0JRL for his support, a must visit for all https://jlappliedtechnologies.com/)
3. PLRI / AllstarLink Interface with modified CM108 Usb dongle ( http://www.qsl.net/k0kn/ and https://sites.google.com/site/ka0yiwsite/home/projects/baofeng-beaglebone-blac/baofeng-bbb-interface, http://www.garydion.com/projects/usb_fob/)
4. Baofeng UV-5R

 Summary of installation: (from https://jlappliedtechnologies.com/raslink/)

 0. New Users: Goto https://allstarlink.org/, register your account, create a node and wait for confirmation of node and its password.
1. Meanwhile, Download RasLink from here
2. Burn RasLink to your SD card, you can either use WinFlashTool
3. Boot RPi, run raspi-config to set system parameters
4. reboot and run system-update (A must for 18.04 image)
5. reboot and edit the following files parameters with your details
  • /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf
  • /etc/asterisk/iax.conf
  • /etc/asterisk/usbradio.conf
  • /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf
If you want to use EchoLink, edit /etc/asterisk/echolink.conf. If you don’t want to use EchoLink, you don’t need to do anything. EchoLink is disabled by default.
The files are very well commented, so you shouldn’t have any trouble.
Note: In iax.conf, 1999 is your All Star node number, and 123456 is your node password. Do not forget to remove the ; (semicolon) from the front of the registration line. You can find your node password under your profile in the AllStar portal. After setting up the files, reboot to activate the changes:
reboot

6. You need to forward the following ports to your AllStar node if behind a firewall/router
  • AllStar: 4569 UDP
  • EchoLink (if you use it): 5198-5199 UDP

For more documentation on AllStar and all the many things you can do with it, go to The AllStar Wiki.
If you have any questions, ask in the AllStar group.
Enjoy AllStar on your Raspberry Pi!

 

The Interface:

On the schematic of the UV5R that there is no dc blocking capacitor on output to the speaker and external speaker jack.  The output goes to about 3 volts when the amplifier is enabled. To zero when no signal is received. Why then do I need to open the case. At least their is 3 volts on the external speaker output when a signal is present. The main take-away here is NO NEED to MODIFY the UV5R.

 

Parallel Logic Radio Interface : 

Step 1: Must visit and readup on the PLRI interface http://www.qsl.net/k0kn/

Step 2:  Modifying a CM108 Sound Fob http://www.qsl.net/k0kn/cm108_mod.html & http://www.marrold.co.uk/2018/04/converting-cm108-usb-fob-for-amateur.html & http://www.garydion.com/projects/usb_fob/




 Step 3:

 KA0YIW- https://sites.google.com/site/ka0yiwsite/home/projects/baofeng-beaglebone-blac/baofeng-bbb-interface

 

 

Zopier IAX client setup blog next !!

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