[arm-allstar] Node radios

[Doug Crompton]

Terry,

 Thank you for the compliments. On the node radio I do want to make the
point that everyone has different requirements. Many using Allstar are
operating what we call local nodes. That is a node that services a very
small area, mainly the single user. This could be in a car or home and
often the node is 1W or less and has a very small antenna or even a dummy
load. In these cases a cheap transceiver is often used and at this point
there are an enormous number of the Baofeng radios being used very
successfully in this way. So don't discount the cheap transceiver in these
applications.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*


On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:54 AM, "Kerry McKenzie via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Greetings all
> Before I remark on anything I have to congratulate the authors of this
> great software as using the latest version I have had great success setting
> up a node, absolutely brilliant!
> Now node radios, having now setup several other Dstar nodes and packet
> radio nodes I have always used commercial radios for the task and never had
> any problems.
> I broke my own rules with allstar and tried using several cheap chinese
> radios for the task. Both failed terriblely because they are just not tight
> enough with their specs. I went out and purchased a Hytera 652 radio setup
> the telemetry port on the rear using the Uri controller and have not looked
> back. The recovered audio is superb and receiver is very tight and does not
> suffer interference that the cheaper radios experienced and the reports
> from the users is excellent.
> So if I can lend any advice in this forum don’t cheat your hard work with a
> cheap end radio, spend the money and install a good quality commercial
> radio on your node as the results are outstanding.
> I am about to link this with our local repeater once I figure where to turn
> off the tones and voice ident but. I’m sure I will find out how to do this
> shortly, however the main reason for my comments was using a good quality
> radio for your node makes a world of difference and takes away any hard
> work and problems.
> This forum is great as I’m learning so much!
> Regards Kerry VK4TUB
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