[arm-allstar] RPi3 - Allstar as Repeater Controller

[Josh W4ZZK]

Well, I'll get right to the point.... I'm SOLD on using this thing as
a Repeater Controller.  I have simply fallen in love. Having
Echolink/Allstar and the repeater controller all wrapped into one box
is so nice. Cheap, no brick walls, and introduces new potential to the
repeater ops is great.  Probably 'preaching to the choir' but I'm new
to this... let me ride this high of excitement for a bit! ;)

Now that I'm beginning to get with the flow of  "ins and outs" of the
scripts of the operating system, I'd like to hear from some people
that use the software/hardware as repeater controllers, and the
"standard and non standard" features used by you all.

Tell me about your "lessons learned" along the way.  How do you
protect your RPi from Lightning/Static in the Repeater Shack? How have
you used the GPIO of your RPi2 or 3 to optimize your system? Do you
have a frequency agile remote base? What radios do you use? How do you
interface it? Tell me all about your systems!

This is very exciting, and this should be a good stream of
conversations. For what it's worth, I'm doing inventory of my
conventional repeater controllers, and will probably sell them to move
towards using this system turn-key.

73 and Look forward to the conversation!

Josh W4ZZK
NW Alabama