[arm-allstar] Node dropping packets

[srogers at epbfi.com]

I have my node rf linked to the mountain top repeater and all works well except for I am getting dropped audio from that is received from connected nodes. I originally thought that I was getting some desense on the link receiver located at the repeater site. After digging deeper I find that is not the case. I can connect to a remote node, watch the telemetry in real-time (via the simpleusb-tune-menu) on my node as well as watching on supermon and see that when a user from a connected node is talking it will indeed "hiccup" for a lack of better words. When this happens my node will literally for just a split second unkey then key back up and resume like normal. This "hiccup" will also occur during the connect/disconnect messages. I have narrowed it down to the allstar hardware itself, but I am just not sure what specifically is causing the trouble. I have the PI on a wired connection, with current Hamvoip updates and an RA-35 interface from Kevin Custer (Repeater Builder). Just for further information, I have an IRLP node here also that is rf linked back to the repeater and it is not having any type of audio hiccups like I am describing with allstar. 

I will happily provide more details if needed. 
Any ideas? 

Thanks 
Steve