In case you missed, Josh from HRCC live streamed setting up a node last Saturday and took calls into his node while on the air. He has a pretty big audience, so hopefully this will inspire others to explore.
That Texas dude Ham Radio 2.0 did that about a year ago, too. All good!
Sigh... pretty hard to watch, and misleading. ASL3 is a completely different story.
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I only got about 10 minutes in before I got called away; will try to watch the rest later… was it referencing HV? (Didn’t get that far that I heard a mention specifically)
It was SHARI hardware that had been sitting around in a box for years and a Raspberry Pi 3 with unknown software. The video spent the first 30 minutes trying to guess the Linux login. I finally forwarded and saw a Clear Node. Clear Nodes are a fine AllStar node.
I recommend this and other Freddie Mac videos to see the current happenings with ASL3. The ASL3 manual is a good place to start, too.
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Yeah, could have spun up a fresh ASL3 in that 1/2 hour!
Yeah this is impossible to watch.
As a developer of some other ham radio software, I too have seen countless videos showing people clicking around at random and not reading the manual or even the FAQ, and then spending an hour confusing people basically. And then I get support question emails based on the YouTube video…
It would be nice if the standards were raised so that these videos would be “instructional”.
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I talked with Freddie about taking his material and publishing an "instructional quality" installation walk-through under the ASL banner. He was open to it .. just never got around to pushing it forward.
I put a video out showing how to copy-paste three commands from our website to the terminal (that’s the install process for wfview on Linux). Immediately after posting, the number of support questions for this particular aspect went way down.
At the time, I thought it was a pretty dumb video given that it just shows me copying text from the documentation into the terminal and pressing enter. But now the video has thousands of views and nobody has posted a question about how to do it in a long time. So… probably worth it.
Always good to see a larger youtube channel bringing awareness to AllStar. I just sent Josh an email offering to send him one of my cross-band full-duplex nodes at no charge and hopefully he’ll take me up on that. Until then I’ll share some excerpts from my email:
David NR9V here in San Diego, I'm the author of the free & open-source AllScan AllStar dashboard web app, and a maker of AllStar nodes, USB Radio Interfaces (that support AllStar as well as EchoLink, digital modes, DigiPi, VARA, etc.), and various ham radio accessories.
First, thank you for the great work you have been doing for so many years now with HRCC!
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Here's a quick "Cliff-Notes" summary of my most popular products:URI101 - Low cost high-quality USB Radio interface for HTs supporting true COS detection (from speaker audio bias voltage)
URI110 - Low cost high-quality USB Radio interface for mobile radios
URI141 - Similar to the URI101 but also provides a power output for HTs, supporting 100% USB-powered nodes. (Freddie Mac did a great review a few months ago of my URI141-RT85)
ANF101-M-RT85 - Low cost cross-band full-duplex AllStar node radio module. The ANF101 is the lowest cost cross-band full-duplex node on the market, with outstanding audio quality and a number of innovative features.
BTW AllStarLink is a full-duplex network, and nodes that support full-duplex are much nicer and easier to use - there's no need to wait for your node to unkey before you can Tx to it, and thus on a busy net or when people are quick keying you're not locked out of the net/QSO like as is the case on half-duplex nodes. And if you use a cross-band full-duplex HT like the Wouxun KG-UV9D Plus, KG-UV8D Plus, KG-935H or KG-Q10H you then have greatly improved situational awareness, ie. if someone else keys up with a quick comment or break, or someone doubles with you, you'll hear it and can respond appropriately. (Note that a full-duplex personal node is not a repeater - AllStar has 2 different full-duplex settings: duplex=2 is for repeaters, whereas duplex=3 is for personal nodes and does not repeat Rx audio into Tx audio. Thus when using a cross-band full-duplex node with a cross-band full-duplex client radio it's just like talking on a high-quality speakerphone - you can hear anyone who keys up but your own audio is not echoed back to you.)
AllStar is the only PTT communications network and app I know of that supports full-duplex, and it really does make things much more efficient and interactive. I believe it's the future of ham radio IP-linked voice comms.
…Last but not least is my UCI120 USB Communications Interface, which enable high-quality radio-less nodes to be put together quickly and inexpensively. Matt (Tech Minds) did a great review of the UCI120 earlier this year.
I've done some short and simple youtube demos of my products such as this one of the ANF series with a Wouxun KG-UV9D Plus, and of the ANF101, but so far no one on youtube has done a more in-depth review of the ANF101.
…Thanks,
David
NR9V
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