Digital Voice
In recent years, digital voice has joined traditional analog SSB or FM voice communication. There are a variety of DV modes, many of which are vendor specific.
I recently started enjoying nets on digital voice modes. I use AllStarLink (ASL) (node 600681) and connect to another node, often connected to a repeater. I use this often to connect to the Knoxville daily noon net at node 50015 and to my CARC club repeater at node 602640. I purchased a Shari Pi3U from kitsforhams.com which I used with a Raspberry Pi 3 that I had, and loaded hamvoip software on it per their instructions. This gave me a working ASL node which I use through a UHF FM radio, often my FT5DR handheld radio.
I got interested again in ASL as I read Tom Salzer KJ7T's Random Wire weekly email blog at https://www.randomwire.us/www.randomwire.us/ which I highly recommend. He has interested me in lots of ham radio hobbies within this hobby of ham radio.
AllStarLink has released a new version, V3, of ASL which I could load onto my ASL node but I maintain a practice of not upgrading unless there are features or bug fixes that I need. Maybe some day. Since the memory of a Raspberry Pi is on a microSD card, I could easily try out V3 and have hamvoip to fall back on as needed.
I use Yaesu System Fusion through a local repeater, or through PDN mode, or through a WPSD hotspot and my FT5-DR handheld or FTM-300D mobile rig. I have learned that Fusion Wires-X only works between nodes actually running Wires-X on Windows and using rooms. But there is lots more activity on YSF reflectors that you can access through hotspots. I often connect to Kansas City Wide nets (https://www.kansascityroom-wide.com/). Those who maintain cross-mode repeaters today often support multiple modes, such as YSF, DMR, and D-Star.
I recently started enjoying nets on digital voice modes. I use AllStarLink (ASL) (node 600681) and connect to another node, often connected to a repeater. I use this often to connect to the Knoxville daily noon net at node 50015 and to my CARC club repeater at node 602640. I purchased a Shari Pi3U from kitsforhams.com which I used with a Raspberry Pi 3 that I had, and loaded hamvoip software on it per their instructions. This gave me a working ASL node which I use through a UHF FM radio, often my FT5DR handheld radio.
I got interested again in ASL as I read Tom Salzer KJ7T's Random Wire weekly email blog at https://www.randomwire.us/www.randomwire.us/ which I highly recommend. He has interested me in lots of ham radio hobbies within this hobby of ham radio.
AllStarLink has released a new version, V3, of ASL which I could load onto my ASL node but I maintain a practice of not upgrading unless there are features or bug fixes that I need. Maybe some day. Since the memory of a Raspberry Pi is on a microSD card, I could easily try out V3 and have hamvoip to fall back on as needed.
I use Yaesu System Fusion through a local repeater, or through PDN mode, or through a WPSD hotspot and my FT5-DR handheld or FTM-300D mobile rig. I have learned that Fusion Wires-X only works between nodes actually running Wires-X on Windows and using rooms. But there is lots more activity on YSF reflectors that you can access through hotspots. I often connect to Kansas City Wide nets (https://www.kansascityroom-wide.com/). Those who maintain cross-mode repeaters today often support multiple modes, such as YSF, DMR, and D-Star.