Larry;
I already have a working Raspberry Pi up and running with ORP/SVXLink.
The entire repeater is contained in a small ammo box with mobile duplexer, see attached PDF.
I was able to upload my PDF of my portable repeater project and some photos of my main EchoLink UHF repeater located in Milford MA as part of the Greater Milford Amateur Radio Group.
I appreciate the help since nobody else has offered any comments.
My need is pretty basic. Portable repeater (with R_Pi running ALS instead of SVXLink) on a WiFi network but nothing else, this could be basically just some hotel WiFi or family member WiFi without any need to log into a router and setup up anything.
The portable repeater with the R_Pi will have ALS installed and whatever else node setup is needed, (just a plain Jane ALS node) From what you mentioned already for outgoing connections I don’t need much else. This would be the primary need to only support outgoing connections at this time.
At my home QTH (Verzion FIOS 100 Mbps connection) I already run an EchoLink node (3819) that is setup on a Windows 10 mini Liva PC. My Verzion router has port forwarding to support this EchoLink repeater (UDP 5198, 5199 & TCP 5200).
I believe ALS runs on only LInux so this means I can’t run ALS on my Liva Windows 10 machine.
I just ordered another R-Pi today on Amazon and plan to install ALS on it and configure it to allow a node, hub, whatever it takes to tie together the portable repeater and bridge over to my Main EchoLink node (3819).
The goal is simply to be on my HT within range of the portable repeater and enter a DTMF command that would connect the portable repeater to my main EchoLink repeater. If based on what you mentioned I could setup an allstar server at home to bridge the portable repeater to EchoLink repeater.
(This is what I need to figure out )
I would also like to have the portable repeater operate as a general AllStarLink public node that I could connect into other AllStarLink’d / IRLP repeaters, in this case its not important the my main EchoLink node is not tied in.
Once I come up to speed on ALS I plan on moving the Main EchoLink repeater over to AllStarLink, probably means I will kill Windows 10 on the Liva and install some form of Linux, this is a later project hi hi. (Maybe I can run somekind of Linux VMware on my Windows LIva computer ?)
BryanW1BRI_Portable_Repeater_Project.pdf (1.0 MB)
Thanks for your patience and help.
Bryan
W1BRI