DMR Operation & Functionality with W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
There seems to be lots of confusion with W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
(WPSD) and DMR
functionality. This document serves to hopefully clear that up.
There seems to be lots of confusion with W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
(WPSD) and DMR
functionality. This document serves to hopefully clear that up.
Due to the (honestly, unexpected) growth and popularity of W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
,
two wonderful users/fans1 have setup online support and chat communities for
users of my software:
W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
Facebook Group (Courtesy of Daren, 2E0LXY
)
W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
Discord Server (Courtesy of Mark, 2E1CEQ
)
After many, many months of development and testing,
W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
now runs the Bullseye
version of Raspberry Pi OS.
W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
will still install and
run on existing Pi-Star installations (running Raspberry Pi OS “Buster”).
however, if you’d like to run the more modern and supported Bullseye, you will
need to install the WPSD Disk
Image. It is based on Pi-Star
v4.1.6 with W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
pre-installed.
Beginning October 5, the various resources hosted on the W0CHP.net
network will experience intermittent, and some extended outages and downtime.
The network is moving to a different physical location, but will retain the same asynchronous fiber connections speeds, IPs, etc.
I anticipate the outages lasting no more than 48 hours. Once fully complete, I will update this post accordingly.
W0CHP.net
Git RepositoriesW0CHP-PiStar-Dash
will not be available (hosted on the above Git repo).W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
installations.Greetings gracious hams! As some of you know, I operate the XLX493 Reflector. Currently, it supports both DMR and YSF protocols. However, I do not posses the necessary hardware for trans-coding the D-Star protocol.
And since my reflector has been getting more traffic lately, I’m putting a
feeler out there to other hams who run a D-Star-enabled reflector to see if
they’d be gracious enough to peer with reflector (more specifically, Module
E
, since it’s the busiest module.
I keep/use a hotspot in my truck, and I’ve always wanted a way to manage/switch/connect/disconnect from reflectors, talkgroups, etc., hands-free; using only my voice.
I’ve begun work on a small project to allow me to do just that. And no, this is not an April Fool’s joke. 😆
Check it out…
For some time now, I’ve yearned for a way to quickly link to various XLX reflectors and modules on DMR, as well as unlink from modules to “mute” a busy reflector/module.
Recently, I’ve witnessed two networks suffer from loops, caused by
mis-configured hotspots. Now while Pi-Star has some rudimentary checks in place
(simply a warning message for hotspots configured as “Public Nodes”), I’ve
improved W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
to help
prevent these loops even further.
A very nice gentleman from India, Bejoy (VU3BOJ
), had contacted me recently;
informing me that he was unable to access my various web resources. The poor
guy was attempting to install my
W0CHP-PiStar-Dash
software, but to no
avail.
Moreover, Bejoy mentioned that his local friends with different ISPs were also unable to access my resources. This bothered me, so I investigated.