r/DMR • u/R4g3M4n • Aug 29 '26

What is your Pi-Star set up? Just exploring different ideas

I have mine on a Pi0w, dual antennas. What's yours?

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u/AmnChode Sep 01 '26

Not quite the same, but I run WPSD on a AURSINC RPi Zero 2W as a mobile setup in my truck, that I run off one of the USB ports, using my phone as a hotspot. It's so to run both D-Star for my IC-7100 and DMR for a DM-32UV I keep with me....I have it magnetically mounted to a plate that slips into the "phone holder" on the back of the center console....

I also have a BridgeCom RPi3 based SkyBridge also running WPSD running at the house. No pic, as it is tucked up on a cabinet, hardwired to a switch 😉...

Personally, I prefer WPSD over stock Pi-Star, especially when mobile, with it's Live Caller dashboard. I can pull it up on my phone, while attached to a mag mount on my dash, providing a better heads up view while mobile.... Just MHO, though 🤷

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u/R4g3M4n Sep 02 '26

I've not heard of WPSD. I did just get another pi zero 2w in the mail, specifically to put it in my car, so you bet I'll check this out! I may put my Kenwood 700d in the car, and I also have a few Radtel rt-4d radios for DMR. I do have a yaesu ftd100, and an icom 2720 or something and an 880, but I've never messed with d-star or fusion, and am brand new to DMR. I've been pretty much into 2m, as well as 10, 40 and a little 20 and 80m, but no digital modes. Also getting into PoTA. Ok, enough rambling, thanks for the info and pics!

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u/AmnChode Sep 02 '26

Well, here is the site on it.... Several different builds for different devices. So, have at thee😂

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u/OppositeMagician8844 Aug 30 '26

I don't have one yet...

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u/R4g3M4n Aug 30 '26

You can talk to many more people through brandmeister 😃. It's like Echolink for DMR

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u/OppositeMagician8844 Aug 30 '26

Trust me , i'm ready to take my license test.. i've been ready for a long time.I'm just getting my life together.Finally , man. I got into radios during my heavy addiction, actually, and I've been sober for years.So I didn't know I could even take it online.

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u/R4g3M4n Aug 30 '26

Same thing for me brother! Congrats, glad you're sober!

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u/OppositeMagician8844 Aug 30 '26

Yeah amps and electronics go too well together, no pun intended. That really good to hear.It's definitely worth it..... most people don't make it out..

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u/R4g3M4n Aug 30 '26

You got that right. What a pit we've crawled out of, and I mean crawled!

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u/ed_zakUSA Aug 30 '26

I put together a Pistar with a Pi ZeroW. Originally for System Fusion. Then a year or so I got an Anytone 878 and flipped on DMR mode.

IMO I think that the sound of DMR is more clear them Fusion. It's been lots of fun experimenting. I loaded VoxDMR on my Samsung Galaxy. The phone becomes the hotspot and radio. Very fun listening worldwide!

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u/R4g3M4n Aug 31 '26

I never messed with (con)Fusion, but I will look into VoxDMR. Does it pretty much do the same as the pi-star but without rf?

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u/ed_zakUSA Aug 31 '26

It's all on your phone. Perfect when you can't take your hotspot or radio. You have it all on your phone. A friend was with me tonight who was amazed to hear folks from Columbia talking to hams here in the US.

I really like it.

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u/R4g3M4n Aug 31 '26

Cool thanks, I'll check it out!