If you own a Pi-Star hot spot, you know that you can use your phone as an internet connection. But did you know that you can directly wire the phone to your hotspot?
While experimenting with the digital world, I thought I’d try to build a Pi-Star as a connection point for my Yaesu FT3DR. There are plenty of tutorials online on how to do this, so I won’t get into that. I’ll just say that yes it works and it only took about an hour from downloading the latest Pi-Star image, formatting the SD card and configuring the Pi-Star to get up and running.
Compared to the Wires-X software, I definitely like the Pi-Star dashboard better since it keeps track of everything I hear and it’s linked up to QRZ.com for looking …