$150 HOTSPOT Made for Hams - The Hamspot!

[@tchambers807]

I just purchased one of these. Collin K0NNK was awesome. Assembled in the USA. Great communication. Good price. I have no complaints. Aliexpress would've charged near the same and God only knows what you'd end up with in the end.

[@HamRadio2]

Awesome

[@RookieLock]

Colins got a great channel.. Love to see the younger guys show an interest to ham radio !

[@matthewhalbert1713]

Thanks for the video Jason. It's nice to have a good decent price hotspot out there.

[@saifal-badri]

I placed a preorder hope to get it soon, thanks for sharing

[@Megellin]

I switched both my hotspots to WPSD a few months ago and haven't looked back. I think it is a lot more coinvent than pi-star with all the extra settings.

[@tomleddy7620]

Sounds like something I can handle. Especially if it’s set up for me and my Yeasu-FT70. Thanks

[@hamradionetworking]

Wow, this is crazy, I never expected to sellout instantly. Thank you Jason for this amazing video and thank you guys for a instant sellout, I will use my profits to get on HF and to expand my amateur radio journey. And for anyone wondering I am now accepting preorders.

[@timhargrove6493]

Whats the difference between the BridgeCom Hotspot Max and this one? Any advantages of one over the other. I noticed one antenna vs two. Duplex?

[@rodneyhefner6596]

Thank you for the review, looks like a nice option in the world of hotspots. Like the features and affordability.

[@victorcharlie7491]

He did nice work on that hotspot, great review tnx!

[@jameshutson8431]

how about a link i want one

[@AlexanderJohnson-dw5mm]

Would you mind doing a review on the 2023 TCA PRC 152? They claim to be 15w and more robust than the prior models. Love watching your stuff!

[@HamRadio2]

I'll look

[@SteelWolf13]

I flashed my hotspot from pistar to wpsd months ago. Never looked back.

[@HamRadio2]

Yep, good call

[@milanthemilan5015]

I wanna live in a country where 150 bucks is cheap.

[@HamRadio2]

I want you to also

[@chrissewell1608]

I thought you were talking about a Wifi Hotspot, at first! But, its a Digital Radio HotSpot! DAHhhhh...

[@HamRadio2]

Kinda dumb that they call these hotspots but yea, not WiFi

[@AllanHaensgen]

There is a setting to turn off the OLED scrolling.

[@HamRadio2]

I'll check

[@Siskiyous6]

I bought one, I have been wanting a HotSpot, and in my new QTH the shack is not in the house, I can play radio from inside the house with the hotspot.

[@linkonlansing]

Nice!! Thanks..

[@lightingnut]

What do you do with a hotspot?

[@HamRadio2]

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[@Tommy-K4BWN]

Got a question Jason I'm thinking about getting a DMR mobile will I need a hotspot to run it in my car I am still learning about DMR and I'm still learning about Ham Radio too since I got my first license in 2022 I've always wanted to have amateur license since I bought my first CB license just before the last year they throw them in the garbage in the 70s. 73 K4BWN

[@HamRadio2]

You'll need a hotspot in your car unless you have local DMR repeaters near you

[@Tommy-K4BWN]

@@HamRadio2 Thanks I can't afford to buy both so digital radio is out of the question. 73 K4BWN

[@Rick-pl5ey]

Any reason why this couldnt be run on a RPI 3B? Power consumption is significantly more on the 4.

[@HamRadio2]

I don't see why not

[@rohnkd4hct260]

Looks interesting.

[@mediocreman2]

So what does this do?

[@HamRadio2]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/on-QeXRmmriFnqM&ab_channel=HamRadio2.0

[@karlament6939]

Let's just put it this way if I'm going to invest in a Hotspot system. I want nothing but the best. And I don't care how expensive it is. I have the money.

[@HamRadio2]

Most hotspots will do all digital modes. I'm not aware of one that's triband like you're asking, and certainly not outside of the Ham bands

[@straightpride451]

I'm so tired of everything always being out of stock. I was going to buy one, but forget it now, I'll buy somewhere else.

[@HamRadio2]

There's plenty of options available

[@karlament6939]

I want a Hotspot that covers everything I want a Quad band of hot spots that covers 144 to 147.995 220.000 to 224.995 430.000 to 449.995mhz Does anybody know? I want the Cadillac of them all. All digital modes. ???

[@DavidCase-ov5uo]

Please ditch the music. I keep thinking I am watching a video game.

[@HamRadio2]

Most people like it

[@psychodadsn]

Looks like a cool piece of gear, thanks for another great video! 73 N2SCD

[@HamRadio2]

You bet

[@unclemikeyplays]

Already out of stock!

[@HamRadio2]

That's how I roll

[@hamradionetworking]

I am now accepting preorders.

[@arekx]

Hardware looks like regular V1.3 MMDVM_HS_Dual_Hat hotspot. What's the hardware difference? Closed software? - "no" for me.

[@HamRadio2]

No it's not closed software

[@arekx]

@@HamRadio2 Nice then! (but can't find download info on hotspot author web page).

[@f00masterFlex]

⁠@@arekxit’s an open source software project. Look harder ;-)

[@kidbach]

Looks like a cool device. He says he'll config the hotspot for the user, will it be plug and play, or do you have to config it more after you get it? Thanks for sharing. KC3UEE

[@HamRadio2]

It'll be PNP

[@w8kdzradio113]

pardon me for being a little cynical here, but all it looks like is a reskinned version of pi-star with some features added to it, as far as it goes I like that it displays the room name, probably does the same for BM.TGIF talkgroups, but if my current hardware, but it looks to me like a dual band hat with a raspberry pi single board with some paint thrown on pi-star for the most part

[@HamRadio2]

Except that WPSD is much better than Pi-star

[@f00masterFlex]

Uhhhh it’s much more than that.

[@rdmclark]

I got a duplex hotspot, DSTAR it's great I can disconnect from a busy reflector. I was hoping on DMR I could do the same thing. Nope just let's me listen to two talk groups at the same time. Kinda pointless on DMR

[@HamRadio2]

Wrong. DMR allows you to listen to 2 TGs like a repeater does

[@f00masterFlex]

100% incorrect statement 😂

[@rickpinelli1586]

Bridgecom support is the worst!

[@HamRadio2]

Disagree

[@rickpinelli1586]

@@HamRadio2 I guess they never sold you a USED radio!

[@SQLKC]

@@HamRadio2 I am going to Bridgecom HQ in the morning... This device at 150.00 vs the Bridgecom at 425.00 what device to buy?

[@AlfredoC-j4g]

It does not support FM fully. Needs upgrade.

[@Siskiyous6]

What do you mean, what else would it support?

[@HamRadio2]

FM? No, why would it? It's a DV Hotspot

[@AlfredoC-j4g]

​@@HamRadio2 : Refering specifically to WPSD. WPSD is "PI-STAR ", it's simply a different GUI. As you may already my aware, you have many different types of STM32 hotspot boards. In my case I use the STS32 MMDVM repeater controller board by Repeater Builder. My hotspot is essentially a repeater controller running PI-STAR. I tried WPSD, and it works, however though "FM" mode does technically work, the new GUI in WPSD does not recognize it nor indicates anything "FM" on the DASHBOARD and when using a Nextion screen. It's like it does not excist, but the configuration settings for "FM" are there, just like in PI-STAR.

[@f00masterFlex]

WPSD is most definitely not PiStar, and is not “just different a gui.” It’s a completely different distribution, and has full FM support. Learn more about it/use it/contribute to it before you spout gross misinformation.