Seriously????? You can spend $30 on a Baofeng (Chinese Crap) You can spend $30 on a 2 Channel Motorola Radius/Maxtrac (decent radio) Why would you even think of using a Baofeng? Where you going to get DISCRIMINATOR audio? The Baofeng will sound like crap (warmed over) Kirk On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Adam Booth <kl3tx@ak.net> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking to set up my first Allstar node and I’m going to use either a Baofeng UV-5R or UV-82 HT for the radio. I plan to interface this to the node with a DMK Engineering URI (http://dmkeng.com/URI_Order_Page.htm) I have yet to order. Does anyone here have experience with interfacing Baofeng HTs to the DMK URI and have any tips on how to secure the connection and anything else I should know? I am also interested in Echolink so a product that would be compatible with Echolink would be my best choice.
Any other suggestions for radio interfaces would be welcome as well. I have looked into Advanced Repeater Systems’ products as well ( http://arsrepeaters.com/USB_AllStar_Adapters.php) and they look excellent, however, I would prefer the versatility of something like the URI for when I upgrade the radio on the node. It looks like the ARS product only interfaces to a certain radio but the URI will interface to anything (give you know the pinouts on your radio, etc).
So all in all, I am getting started and have yet to choose an interface. I have the Baofeng radio chosen as my starter radio, everything else is open to suggestions!
Thanks
Adam
KL3TX
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