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Howdy, all;<br>
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I'm happy to report another node successfully migrated. I am not one
of the original ALS - IRLP gateway operators. Instead, I built a
portable rPi UHF simplex node around a year ago which included the
modified IRLP interface board and a URIx. <br>
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I have ham friends who travel and I wanted to provide a link home
for these folks from various remote locations. I occasionally travel
myself to a rural area with cellular internet, but few repeaters,
and wanted to be able to link back into my usual friends and nets
while traveling. (For example, I checked into a Denver net from my
hotel in Dayton last year...) <br>
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For all the time I've operated it, I've changed between linking
protocols using the time honored process of shutdown - swap SD cards
- and boot to change between AllStar / EchoLink and IRLP / EchoIRLP.
Though the node was running AllStar most of the time, it was getting
a bit tedious to keep up with updates, tweaks, and backups on both
platforms and, especially, manage the scheduling of having the node
operating on the requested linking system when a friend needed
access while on a trip. <br>
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So, for perhaps a different set of reasons than most, I'm overjoyed
to have it all working together! My sincere thanks goes out to
David, Doug, and the beta testers who contributed to this all
working together again, and for all the other things which have been
coming to the hamvoip distribution! Nice job, folks!<br>
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Thanks, and 73,<br>
<br>
Dave Andreatta<br>
WD0HXN<br>
Erie, CO<br>
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