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--- svxlink [2025/08/10 20:23] – Update 10.8.2025 g4nab
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 The obvious questions are: What do I need? How’s much does it cost? How do I do it? I already have all-star, why do I need this?
-First of all, SvxLink is designed by Tobias Bloomberg SM0SVX, firstly around 2006/7, as a means to access EchoLink via a Linux platform, but linking analog modes. AllStar is built around 2013 from Asterisk a PABX package for telephones. (Linking the two systems together while possible is inadvisable.)
+First of all, SvxLink is designed by Tobias Bloomberg SM0SVX, firstly around 2006/7, as a means to access EchoLink via a Linux platform, but linking analog modes. AllStar is built around 2013 from Asterisk a PABX package for telephones. As it happens I have made multiple Allstarlink node available as Talkgroups within the svxlink reflector.
 In Svxlink, no node numbers are required, just the natural callsign, and password provided to the reflector keeper by the node builder for the passive connectivity. The reflector maintains the callsign information in a dataset that is displayed by another software package called SvxPortal that can be viewed publicly here [[http://svxportal-uk.ddns.net:81]], so users can view the available stations and the talkgroups available.
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 You will need access to a Mac/PC, with a card slot to write the operating system with RaspberryPi Imager in the first instance, and an internet connection. Only a little knowledge of bash scripting may be required.
-Because there are so many different systems, it is not possible to provide a “one size-fits all” image, that is capable of being updated, so some technical knowledge is required. That said if you go to the following page and slect downloads, you will find an image for raspberry pi. Follow the instructions carefully.
+Because there are so many different systems, it is not possible to provide a “one size-fits all Operating Systems” image, that is capable of being updated, so some technical knowledge is required.
+That said if you go to the following page and select downloads, you will find an image for raspberry pi. Follow the instructions carefully. https://portal.svxlink.uk:8443 . a DTMF Help sheet is also downloadable.
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 There are so many sources of the software that have been adulterated by others to fit particular devices, that I would recommend sticking with the main source of svxlink that of SM0SVX. Within my web-pages I refer to scripts of my own making that can help a user build this system.
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-((The current version of the SVXLink package is Version 24-02.1 and is available as i suggeted above as an image. If you do find a dpkg on the current version of Bookworm, it is an old version 19 and has several features absent, such as the gpiod functionality, and full connection to the svxreflector.
+((The current version of the SVXLink package is Version 24-02.1 and is available as I suggested above as an image. If you do find a dpkg on the current version of Bookworm, it is an old version 19 and has several features absent, such as the gpiod functionality, and full connection to the svxreflector.
 Other versions of SVXLink have existed including one from the OpenRepeaterProject in the US, but again this version is also out of date, although that group is working on the next version.))
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-While the image for version 24 is still very much valid, a new version 25 is available either from the author SM0SVX, or as a script package at the latest post on my web-site g4nab.co.uk. However this is very touchy, and will require some babying into a working condition. Stick with the Image Version 24 for ease of use.
+While the image for version 24 is still very much valid, a new version 25 is available either from the author SM0SVX that requires full compilation, or as a script package at the latest post on my web-site g4nab.co.uk. However this is very touchy, and will require some babying into a working condition. Stick with the Image Version 24 for ease of use.
+I mentioned in the chat that the OARC Radio channel is now available on the svxlink reflector. As a reminder the SVXLink system is FM, but relies on the OARC Digital ASL Reflector to connect. Tests have proved that this has been highly successful method of interfacing..