Larry;
Looks like I will just have to push through figuring out how to set things up once my R_Pi arrives.
The local IRLP node my buddy Roger owns (WA1NVC) is in the town of Framingham where I work at (Bose as an EMC engineer) on 448.175, maybe I could try linking that to your system sometime.
The club that I belong to is called the MMRA, I’ve been working on this network of about 22 repeaters for the last 25 years. The repeaters are link the old fashion way using UHF mobile radios. We also have two 900 MHz repeaters that are also on IRLP. It’s one of the largest networks of repeaters in the northeast. The two UHF hub repeaters also have EchoLink.
Maybe we should think about using the RF links as a back up and move the repeaters over to AllStar.
Each repeater site has WiFi using a R_Pi router with USB cell phone dongle.
https://www.mmra.org/repeaters/repeater_index_by_location.html
https://www.mmra.org/repeaters/gmap.html
https://www.mmra.org/repeaters/MDN/MDN_party.html That’s me in red hat 
I’m still waiting for some from the AllStar helpdesk to provide me with my node registration so I can download the R_Pi image, its been a few days now and no response yet.
Bryan
W1BRI