The Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and listening to this podcast. So basically what I do is I take all the audio clips out of my videos and upload them to spreaker, and then from there they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well. But I want to welcome you and thank you for joining the audio section of
this series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would appreciate you leaving us a comment or a review on whatever podcast service you're listening from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. This is my Sharry node, my all Star node that was borked during Daytonham mention. I used it the whole way there and when I got there it worked for a day or two and then it just stopped working. So we're gonna rebuild it. Today. I'm gonna show you how to set up all Star
with a Sherry Node. Let's go TAM Radio two point oh, thanks for joining today. It is hot outside, so if you hear the air conditioner in the background, that is why. Okay, this thing is a pie four board, which you can see the USB there. The blue USB three point ers are only on the Pie four. They're not on the Pie three, So that's a Pie four board. And this is the external USB Pie
four you, which is UHF. And I've been using this node for a year and a half ish something like that, and I've been using it mostly when I travel, but I use it sometimes here at home as well. And my system stopped working, and I think it's because I don't know if this card went bad. I'm gonna find out that out here in a minute. Either the card went bad or the image went bad because I usually did not shut it down properly because I was unaware of the dtm F tones.
We'll talk about that here in a little bit about how to properly shut down an all Star node so that you don't bork your image. Sometimes the battery was runner on would run down and it would just die, so that happened a few times as well. So today we're gonna reimage this microSD card with hem VoIP and I'm going to set it up for the Sherry node to use it as my portable all Star node. Let's go. Okay, this is over on the far left of your screen. Right here, this is the
download screen m VoIP dot org slash hashtag download strange. But okay, at the time of this recording, the latest releases V one dot seven, dashow one all star IDXC. So I've downloaded that already. Took a couple of minutes, not very long at all. And then I inserted the card into the computer and it pops up and it says stuff like, hey, oh, it cannot format because Windows doesn't recognize the image that's on the card for a Rasbian image. So but that's okay, just ignore all the close all
those windows whatnot. I know that it is the E drive. So I'm gonna go. And so I've got when thirty two disc Manager, which is this program right here that you're looking at right on the screen. Now, this is the one that hand Void recommends. It doesn't matter. There's one hundred of them out there that are micros D card imaging programs. Use the one, if you used another one in the past, use whatever you want to. If you have no idea, download this one. It's free.
You can easily get to that. So it comes up right here and it says the E drive. It's already told me the E drive here that's my only drop down. If I clicked it's not shown it in the screen. But if I clicked the drop down, that's the only choice. It does not choose anything else. And I know for a fact that the E drive is my micro SD card. Okay, so my old microrest card with the
bad image on it. So I'm gonna try to do this with the micro SD card with the bad image, making I think that the card itself is fine. I just think the image is borked. So that's the assumption we're gonna go on. All right, I went ahead and change from a window capture to this. This is my whole screen right here, so you can see down here on the side, I've got all these drives and the E drive. If I click on that, it comes up to Windows and it
says you need to reform at the disc. I don't want to do that. I just click cancel. Okay, it's not accessible find Windows. We don't really care what you think that kind of thing. So now I'm going to make that a bit bigger so you guys can see it a little bit better. Okay, So we've got the image downloaded. It is an EXCS, an executable file and when you want it, you want to unzip it.
It's self extracting unzip file. So we're gonna click on extract and it's gonna do this thing right here, which takes it a few minutes, not a problem. And this is where you're gonna get your dot IMG, your image file that when thirty two disc managers looking for I had to go find it. It put it out of order because it's it's it's got a date the folder apparently they when they zipped it up was on May twenty May twenty
first of twenty twenty two. And stupid Windows and their downloads folder has everything in order. And even though it's new on this system, it's time stamped another way. So okay, all right, here we go right here, and when SEP comes with it, so you've got to win SEP, which is another version of this Win thirty two Disc Manager. That's fine, I'm not gonna use that right now. It's got in fact, it's got Win
thirty two Disc Manager and win SEP right there, all right. So if you don't have either one of those, it's in the self extracting ZIP file. Fine, I've already got that because I've installed all Star many times. Not a problem. Okay, I pause the camera. But basically what happened was I took my old card. I was going to try to reformat it and reuse the old card, and Windows stopped reading it. So I'm guessing
that this old card is bad. This is the one that I used to have in the know that I think I broke the image on, but it's possible that the actual card just went bad. These green card this is a a XI N card. I don't know what that is. The new card I just put in as a Samsung card. I've been told not to use the cards that are solid black, to use the Samsung or the sand Disc or some kind of name that you recognize. I don't know where this card came from, but I use it for a year and a half, so
it can't be that bad anyway. Okay, so we're gonna click on. So I've got I've got the new card put in. It's it comes up. It's two partitions E n F. I'm gonna choose the E partition and I'm going to go here and find the r pie one dot seven dash show one folder here, and I've got the all Star dot image file there, which again is dated five twenty one to twenty two. That's the latest one on their website right now. So I'm gonna choose that in this um Win
thirty two disc immager window and hashes. Um, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna mess with that. I'm gonna go right, do you want to proceed? It's gonna tell you that you're gonna nuke everything on the card, but nothing's on the card right now, and we're gonna wait for that. That takes a few minutes and just let it go. Okay, there we go. Those popped up as soon as that finished. No, I don't want
to format, I want to bork anything. So there you go. Okay, Yeah, it's a it's a Rasbian Linux formatted disc now and Windows does not is not smart enough to recognize that, but it says right successful, we're gonna click on. Okay, everything's good. That took about two minutes to do that from start to finish. And uh and now we're going to take it out ROMP and I'm going to plug this back in all right. I'm gonna put all this together and the I'm gonna start the camera again,
all right. So we've got that up, and I've got and it comes up as I don't really want to show my router on YouTube, but it comes up as alarm pie A L A r MPI one word alarm Pie. That's what it'll show up as. That's the name it'll show up on your network. Okay. And this particular one is grabbing an IP address at one six dot one dot sixty two, and if you browse to that IP address, it'll show you this is a test. If you see this, the
web server is working great. Okay, So now we're gonna say ssh if I could talk today, I'd be a lot happier if I could talk today. Now we're going to SSH into that IP at same IP address with the port number of two two two, and the user name and password upon an initial setup are both root. Okay, retrieve the latest system and updates.
Do you want to do this now? I'm gonna say no, I'm gonna do this later because again, the image is from May of twenty twenty two, so that's about it's just over a year at the time of this recording. I'm recording this in June of twenty twenty three. Yeah, so that image hadn't been updated in a while, the one that you download. Anyway, I'm gonna say no for now, I'm gonna I'll run an update on it and later. Just would you like to run first time set up?
Yes? I would enter a new route password. Okay, if you have a node number and a password assignment from all Star linked dot org, you should enter no to this question. Okay, yes I do, so I'm entering noe to the question. Enter the public node number now four six four three seven is going to be my node number, and I just know that because that's the node that my sherry was before. Do you want to set
up your node configuration for Asterix? Yes yet yet Asterisk? Yes? I told you I couldn't talk today, right has said that node configuration will be run after reboot. Okay. The current time zone is set to New York. Do you want to change that? Yes? I do. I'm not in New York or I'm not in Eastern time More accurately, I'm going to scroll down here to Chicago because I'm in the Chicago or Central time zone. No. Oh, okay, I didn't select it. Okay, let me
go down here Chicago, changing from New York to Chicago. Yes, the current host's name is al Alarm Pie. Do you want to change this? Yes? I set my This is just what I do. You can do whatever, you can call it whatever you want to, it doesn't matter. I set it to my node number, so I know that when it comes up on the network, any network I connect it to, it's going to come up as four six four three seven, which is my node number.
This is my Sherry node number, not my all Star hub that I will be connecting to it in a normal time, but this is my node number. Here, current IP addressed dynamic. Do you want to change this? No? I don't. The setup script allows you to select the open ssh port setting. Currently the value is two to two. Do you want to change this? No? I don't remember to log back in using your new
password. And it's wanting me to reboot, and I'm going to click reboot, and that's going to come up right there because putty loses connection to it and it doesn't know enough to reconnect by itself, which is okay, So I'm going to try to reconnect and it takes it a couple of minutes to reboot Dot one dot sixty two Port two two two. Give it a second here, Okay, there it is root and password that I just set, and there we go. Do you wish to continue? The script configures the
Asterisk configuration files based upon tiplate files. While the script script is intended for first time configuration of the files that can be run at any time. Okay, do you wish to continue? Yes? Enter node number four six four three seven. Enter a station call for the node case five HWB. Do you want your node to report status to stats dot all Star linked dot org. Yess I do. Do you want to use voice? I d no, nub No, I don't enter bind port is four five six nine.
That's the default port. We're gonna leave that alone for now. Enter semi half duplex telemetry and courtesy tone transmit. Yes, that's fine. Normally for a simplex node, you would choose one. That's where I'm at. Now, for a repeater you would choose too. If you want a silent simplex node, no courtesy tones or telemetry, you choose zero. Okay, I'm gonna choose one. Enter the password for the node. Okay, so that now I will go to stats dot all star link dot org. Actually I'm
wrong. I go to all Star linked dot Org. There we go, I will log in call sign case five HWB. Okay, now I can go down here and see my node settings. These are all my nodes right here, and when I mouse over each one, it's gonna show me the password, so I don't want to show that online. So pausing the video, Okay, got my Yeah, these are these are my four all Star nodes. I've actually got two of them. I got a split node for my Linko radio, but that's my hub node right there for three one three
six four three four three seven says Sherry underscore one. That's my first Sherry hub. I've got one more that I am working on building. And I've got a split node for my a Linko which is up there, which is something else I need. I actually need to reimage that one as well. So back to the putty screen. We're gonna go through this and we're gonna choose the defaults for pretty much everything. Do you want to configure the password for an I A X RPT connection? No? Do you want to configure
simple USB settings? Now? All right? I went to yes, and it brings me to this menu here and it says, choose one of the following or cancel to exit. Choose default if the radio is not listed. I got two motor Roller radios here up here at the top a Doorg transceiver module. Don't know what that is? A LINKO DRX thirty five. I have one of those, but that's not what This is. A Balfang KIM with TMV seventy one or default. So I'm gonna choose default because this is
a Sherry node. Are you using an e PROM in your URI? It's defaulted to no. Normally you will select no unless you're using an internal e PROM No, okay, so no answer. Yes. If using low level receiver output, it's defaulted yes, So I'm to choose that. Do you want to use carriage detection defaulted D yes, I'm gonna choose that. Does the cor line need to be inverted defaulted to yes, I'm gonna choose that. Some radios use CTSS signal. Do you want to use CS decoding yes?
No, I don't know. No. Enable pl filter enabled, yes, the emphasis filtered be enabled. No. I'm going to make sure that this is all correct when I'm done with this. No. Enter the value for radios delay a zero default value a zero squotch tail delay twenty most circums framed range zero's fine. If you know audio values from your notes set up, you can modify them now. If not, noe. Do you want to restart Asterix enabled selections? Yes, I do stopping Asterix. That's where
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made, professionally created to bring your project ideas to life. Thank you pcbway for supporting this channel. So when I set up the snow before, we did it on a live stream, and I went back and found that live stream option twelve from the main menu. It's run simple USP tune menu application, and this screen right here, I'm going to compare to my original live
stream. All right. The first thing I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna hit B like Bravo, which is toggle RX boost mode and it's currently enabled. I'm going to disable that, so B and now it's disabled. So once you just hit the selection, it changes it from one or the other. Now I'm going to choose F like Foxtrot and change pre emphasis mode to enabled. So if I type F and enter, it reflashes, it comes back up and it says F toggle pre emphasis mode currently enabled. So we
enabled that. And then we're gonna go to the very next line, which is G like golf, and we're going to change it too enabled, so pre emphasis and d emphasis are both changed too enabled. Again, this is for a Sherry note. This is what we're setting up today. All right, that's the only three items that I need to change according to my previous
notes. So we're going to write those changes by typing W, press center to continue right, save current parameter values, and then we're going to press zero to exit, and it takes us back to the main menu, so that now we're back at the main menu now. So now that we're back at the main menu, we're going to start the Bash show, which is option nine, and that takes us to the root directory of the device, and we're going to change directory to user USR slash local slash SDN right there,
print working directory. Okay, we're there, and from here this is where you set up like your frequency and your pl tone and all this stuff. So we're going to type in SA eight one eight, dash p R O G and hit enter, and that's where it's no previous programming data available. This is a brand new node, okay, So it says what are
you programming? Enter one, two or three, where Sherry pie xact sequels one, pie hat equals two and an SA eighteen module equals three, So we're a pie x x because this is a this is not a Sherry pie hat. This is a Sherry USB device. Okay, we're going to enter one. I know it's small in the screen. Let me see if I can make this bigger. I don't know if I can or not. One of the text didn't any bigger, so I'll put it on top of that
white background. Okay, so we're gonna enter one. Good programming a Sherry pie xx inter band VHF or UHF. This is a UHF device, so I'm gonna hit two enter Okay, intertransmit frequency in three spaces dot four spaces. So I recently changed this, and previously to this thing dying, I was using four three seven dot five five, So we're gonna enter four three seven dot And Lenox doesn't like the keypad on the right hand side of the keyboard right here, so I'm using the key rows above the very top of
the keyboard. So four three seven dot five five zero zero because it wants four spaces after the dot, I'm gonna hit enter. Enter the received frequency, same thing, because this is a simplex node for three seven dot five five zero zero enter. Okay, do you want to use subaudible tones? Zero for no one for CTCSS and two for DCS we're gonna use CTCSS. So I'm gonna hit one enter, okay, and enter the frequency and hurts. I know for a fact I want to use one. I'm sorry,
one ninety two dot eight that's what I was using previously. Hit enter and it comes up and it says the code is zero zero three one. So that's the code it's looking forward to enter the received frequency? Transmit and received frequency? Do I want to do? Do I want to do both? If I'm transmitting, Yeah, I think I want to do both. I think I want to do both. I can always change this. You can run SA eight one eight dot PR or dash po RG and change this stuff.
All these options you can change anytime you want to. You have to ssh into the box and run that program again, but you can do that anytime. So I think I'm yeah, I think I'm gonna do both. Eight just like that, all right? Enable reverse burst last time we said yes. So when I set this up with Kyle in a livestream, we said yes. So I'm just gonna do that again. I'm not sure exactly what that does. Somebody knows what that does. You put a comment below,
but to yeah, so enable reverse burst. Yes, Kyle said, the default is yes. So yes, they're squelch value one to eight. I'm gonna put one volume zero to eight. I'm gonna put eight because I wanted as a loud as it will go because you can turn your radio up and down. It doesn't distort it. Eight. That's what I had it at last time. Enable pre d emphasis no. Enable high pass filter no, Enable low pass filter no. And then it gives you all of this
list and it says please confirm. It says is this correct? Yes or no? Or A to abort. So I'm the type why enter. Now it's sending all this configuration log written to root forward slash say eighteen dot log. And now I'm back in the root folder or actually I'm back in the spin folder where I started. Okay, So that's it. That's that's the last step to set up the Sherry note A type exit and come back to the main system menu. And I like to reboot, just because why why
the heck non? So I'm gonna go ahead and perform a system power down a reboot the system option fifteen right there, and it asked me to confirm SSH port IP address. Yes, that's fine, okay, reboot, and then it's going to close this window just like that. Perfect bring up my radio here. This is this is the node booting up one nine two one six eight god one god six two. Okay one dot six two. I'm gonna bring up now those of you who may have been following all of my
All Star live streams. Everything I've done on a Star up until this video you're watching right now has been on a live stream. I wanted to do this on an uploaded video because it actually gets more attention on YouTube. A lot of times people don't like to go through and watch a whole live stream. We do a lot of ad libbing and talking at the beginning and at the end. This video will be edited and cut and precise into the point and easier to follow if you're going to do a first time set up.
I run a all Star node server in a cloud data center on a virtual private server, and that node number is four three one three six. Everybody's welcome to connect to that. These are the stations that are connected right now. I have Superman running. One of the last live streams that Kyle and I did together about all Star was installing Superman and making it available to the public. So you can go to ham Radio two dot com forward slash all
Star. It'll bring up this page. It'll show you who's connect and uh and if if someone's talking, nobody's talking right now, someone's talking, it'll it'll highlight that station at the very top line and it'll show you who's talking as well. So it doesn't pass audio or anything like that, but you can see who's connected. So now I'm going to take Now, I've got my my Sherry node rebooted, reconfigured, rebooted. Now I'm gonna take this.
I'm gonna key up this radio. I'm gonna type in Star three four three one three six, which means I'm telling the Sherry node to connect to four three one three six and you should see that come up on the screen right there. So and you're gonna hear some buzzing in the microphone. But that's just the way it is. So here we go. Node three didn't work three six. Sometimes for whatever reason, when you first boot up an all Star node, it doesn't want to connect for like the first three to
five to six minutes something like that. It just doesn't want to connect. You heard it pull an IP address it's got access to the interwebs. In fact, let's um let's pull up stats dot allstar linked dot org right there, and I'm gonna search my call sign and it is showing oh, I need to update that. It's still showing US four forty six dot five, but it's showing four three four three. I'm sorry, four six four three seven online all right. So my wife called me on the phone. She's
upstairs and she calls me on the phone. She's like, Hey, we're remodeling our upstir one of our obstirs bathrooms right now. So it's been five or ten minutes since this node booted up. So now I'm gonna try it again. So let's see if node four three three okay, for whatever reason, it's not wanting to connect. But that's kind of common and typical because if you look right here, it's online. It's it's a reporting status online two stats dot all stain linked dot org. It's got If you click on
this here, it says it's been connected for twelve minutes. Okay, good deal. Key ups three times, transmit time thirty one seconds okay. And if I go here to my node, it says this has been This has been running for three days in five hours since the last reboot. It rebooted the other day for some reason. I don't know why. I don't know if the all Star system updates automatically and it reboots, I'm not sure. But anyway, for whatever reason, it's not wanting to connect. But I
think it's probably just kind of like a fluke. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go in here. Two, I'm gonna log in, and now I'm gonna try to connect from my Superman on my server to my node here at home. I'm sorry, noope, seven connect And I don't have any port forwarding set up to the node here at the house, so that might be a bit of a problem. In fact, I need to go back in and set up my WiFi. Just realize I didn't have Wi Fi set up on the nude. That's still not wanting to connect there, Okay,
So I'm gonna have to do some troubleshooting on that. But it is up and running and it is reporting to stats dot all Star linked dot org, so it is working. But I don't know. Sometimes that sometimes the connection acts weird. Troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is fun. I got an email from a person I didn't know. He said, I'm having trouble connecting to your hub. I can connect other nodes. Do you do you have any money blacklisted. I'm like, no, I don't have anybody blacklisted. I don't
know what you're talking about. So when I couldn't connect this new Sherry node that I just put up to my hub, I thought, well, hm, So I try to connect to a buddy's node and it connected just fine. A zero z is offline right now. It's a good job Kyle. He doesn't have his node booted up. But so I looked for Kyle, He's not online, and I looked for another friend. I connected to him just fine. I'm like, okay, well, maybe there's something funky with
my hub. My all Star hub very rarely do you do I have to reboot it, but I've had to do it once or twice. So I log into Superman here and I do a complete server reboot right there, and it comes back up pretty quick. Three minutes. It was back up. W six hr in for XLD and casey five fog. Case five fog is the UHF for Peter on the tallest building on the Ceawall in Galveston. He's connected to me full time. They came back up. They have auto reconnect
scripts. Obviously they came right back up. And then I keyed this in and you heard part of that, and it worked. It connected right up. So there must have been something funky on my server side, on my virtual hub side, that wasn't allowing me to connect. So I rebooted and it seems okay now. So I got to reply back to that guy and say, hey, try it again, and we lost a few stations.
Some people don't have reconnect strips, but that's okay. So anybody who's on all Star connected four three on three six, if you have trouble with it, do let me know. I want to try to keep it up and running as much as possible. And it is in a cloud server. I've never had it lose. I've never had it die and just lose connection. I've never had that happen. But for whatever reason, I don't know if it tried to. Don't you know, like a lot of systems, it
requires a reboot every now and then. So KC five HWB testing on the all Star system KCY five HWB one two three four fives. You can see it's highlighted right there, so you can see that I'm the one who's talking KCY five HWB and there we go, working just fine. So I have to log into my to this uh node here and somehow edit that. No, I know where to do it. I need to go edit that node, change the frequency, change this one here, change the frequency. Oh,
that's what's connected. Okay, okay, I got it. I got it. So seven minutes anyway, So that is it. That is setting up a Sherry node for the first time, that first time. This is a rebuild of my Sherry node, but it's virtually the first time because I took a brand new SD card, put a brand new image on it, and went from scratch to set it up. And that's how you do it.
Put a comment below let me know if you have any questions, if you'd like to see something new upcoming on a new video about all Star specifically, and connect up to me four three one three six connect up to my server and talked to me seventy three