I have been doing DV for some time now and have experimented with several hotspot technologies.

My favs to date for ease of use are:

1. DMR and D-STAR on the DVMega on a Raspberry Pi3 running the Pi-Star image by Andrew Taylor of the UK, and

2. DMR on the iBlueStack running BlueDV on my iPhone 6.

3. Allstar Link UHF repeater with an RPi controller running asterisk and apt-rpt on the Allstar Link network

My digital radio gear consists of MD-380 with the Ty Tools firmware for DMR and an ID-31a for D-Star. Seeing as I am a fair distance from our local DMR repeater, I mostly tend to use my hotspot options.

I hope you enjoy your digital experience. There are many out here that are very eager to help.

73,

Denny

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