Introducing: Silver Node! Low cost AllStar Link

[@JonathanBaileyn2u]

Brilliant! My kind of people! Thank you for sharing.

[@vikinghog]

Thank you. I always learn so much from you guys and regularly tune into the Monday night net.

[@jjjh20man]

Cool stuff

[@franka7691]

Thanks a lot for posting this. I would be interested in a build session. Where do I sign up? 73, Frank

[@frankiorio7143]

Hi Don, nice job with the build and the presentation! You kept saying that your build had the same capabilities as the Clearnode....is that true? I believe Hamvoip and your build can only do the Allstar mode, it can't do the other digital modes like P25, DMR, C4FM, etc....... or can it? Supporting all the modes is an attractive feature of the Clearnode.

[@presw2pw123]

ClearNode does not support digital modes (you cannot transmit through it digitally) but it does seem to bridge audio patches to other modes. You will always be analog

[@w1frdradio]

Got the all the parts, except for Raspberry Pi 3b which arrives Thursday. What case did Don use to hold everything?

[@W6EK]

Sorry for the delay. I checked with Don and he replied: "The SilverNode enclosure was from Amazon, ASIN. B077Z3R246. This item is currently unavailable, but ASIN B0107WU67M appears to be identical. Within this enclosure I stacked two layers of printed circuit boards, bottom for Pi and radio on upper layer. It does take some planning to get things to fit. If possible I’d go with a little larger box of different material…. Plastic. Reason: the aluminum box shields the Pi’s internal WIFI antenna and reduces the range."

[@roblerman5015]

Great video, is this being sold complete? I am interested in one. thank you and 73 Rob - K6IRK

[@gcurry57]

Can echolink be added?

[@daveborchard2019]

It’s more cost effective to use a Kits 4 Hams Shari PiHat4-U or similar model and use the ASL3 software, which is free. Node Remote software is used on the cellphone and costs about $8, one time. No monthly software cost, and the Kits 4 Hams is at least $100 cheaper.

[@mikegianfrancesco9431]

Are you selling them

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

I think the word you were looking for, for the Clearnode, was _turnkey_ ... ALSO, correction: A Pi Zero is NOT sufficient to run Allstar but a Pi Zero 2W _is_ .

[@LazerR0cketB0mb]

This is me finding out I've been calling him LBJ for two months.

[@FireRescue884]

GMRS also runs on raspberry pi, but for some reason the ham community wants to keep us separated. I did look at clear node, but we GMRS users are excluded from buying it, just plain ham snobbery.

[@someguy782]

There's something about the boomer hams who make and sell stuff like this.

[@FireRescue884]

@@someguy782 There are some that just can’t grasp this stuff, I’m not one of them. Those people need help or need to buy them setup. I make and use my builds for my applications, I don’t need clear node or any other ham exclusive hardware. The difference is, the GMRS community helps one another where ham snobs don’t. I found that out years ago getting into radio. Precisely why I will never darken the doorway of a ham club to take a test.