Effective early this week the manufacturing specialist has left the organization. Zumspot was comprised of two (2) talented individuals, one designer and one manufacturing specialist. Over the past few weeks quite a bit of change has occurred with the folks at Zumspot.
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I just picked up a Pi Zero W and a regular Pi Zero from MicroCenter for $10 and $5 respectively.ĮTA: Just saw this update about Zumspot availability (or lack thereof) due to one of the two people responsible for the product departing from the team: Was not aware of the Jumbospot, so I'll have to take a look. View QuoteI'm considering getting the Zumspot for use with whichever D-STAR rig I end up buying.
But, D-Star is everything DMR wishes it could be. One last comment: Again, I have played with this stuff pretty extensively and I decided that the ONLY thing DMR has going for it is that you can buy cheap radios to do it. If it doesn't, move on to something else. I could go on, but it either pulls your chain or it doesn't. Same goes for snowbirds who winter some place other than where they actually live.
You may even be able to get on your home repeater. No matter where you are in the world, if you have an internet connection: you can work the same guys you would be working if you were at home: using ham radio. One last one, and I will quit beating a dead horse: If you travel, this is one ham radio way to keep in touch with the hams local to where you live. This also applies for older hams who may be in a retirement community or even a nursing home: they can still be active hams without having to own a bunch of equipment and without having outside antennas. They can get on ham radio and work people all over the world using an HT as their only equipment with no outside antennas. Next is the person who lives in a very poor location either because of topography or because of very restrictive HOAs/Zoning laws or whatever. Digital voice modes using VOIP is at least something else they can do to get into ham radio and enjoy ham radio. They could be doing VHF/UHF weak signal stuff, they could be working the satellites, they could be working moon bounce, they could be on packet.but most of them never do any of this IN PART because they are told that REAL ham radio is HF. Most new hams are told to get their ticket, then buy the cheapest HT they can find, and that is the do all and end off of ham radio for a tech. Don't get me wrong, there are all kinds of cool things you can do as a Tech, but very few people actually take advantage of them. Third: for the technician class operator, it provides something else to do with ham radio besides analog FM. When I get bored of driving, I can get on the air and work somebody. In fact, I can drive from New York to LA and never have to change anything on my radio. I don't have to worry about programming my radio, finding repeaters along my route, what PL tone they are using.as I am driving. Since I got into these digital voice modes (with a hotspot device) I have taken a half dozen or so trips across the US: a few east to west and a few from north to south. And, there are a lot of various nets I enjoy using these modes that would not be available to me in any other way.
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However, I have never lived anywhere until very recently where I could just sit in my Lazy Boy and BS with someone through a repeater I either didnt get into the repeater at all, or I wasn't full quieting which prompted endless signal reports and endless speculation as to what I could do to improve my signal.īut, with a hotspot device, and a digital HT, I can sit in my Lazy Boy or out on the porch and work anybody that happens to be on the air. IF you happen to live right near a repeater or you live right near someone you want to work on simplex, then they work fine.
However, my experience over 30+ years of being a ham (and owning HTs) is that they are extremely limited in range. So why would anyone be interested in something like this ?įirst of all, HTs are cool. Mobile, you have to remember to power down the Pi before you shut off the engine (if you are running on vehicle power).somehow the image ends up getting corrupted or the Pi won't connect to WiFi for some reason or something happens and it always does this when I am 500 miles away from home. I tried several of the various Raspberry Pi based devices and found them to be unreliable in the long term because of the Raspberry Pi. I have been into these digital voice modes via a hotspot device for several years and have tried probably a half dozen or more of the various devices and finally settled on the OpenSpot. I also am a big fan of the Shark RF OpenSpot.
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