VK2RCW 439.700 Mhz repeater is back on air as of today, after it had failed some time back.
It is now a multi mode repeater supporting FM analogue and P25 digital modes.
This repeaters belong to ARCWG (Amateur Radio Central West Group) and this repeater is
co-sited with the club's 2metre repeater FM repeater on 147.200 MHz.
Planned for the future, is to link the 439.700 P25 digital into the P25 network.
The Wireless Institute of Australia (wia.org.au)
I built up another two Pi-Star MMDVM's with Single HAT JumboSpots,
I grabbed the latest image file for Raspberry Pi for version 4.1.4,
I noted the later Raspberry Pi kernel is 5.10.11+,
comparing that to the last image which was probably 4.1.2 has kernel 4.19.118+
which I have on my original VK-DMR hotspot, so I will backup the config
for it and burn the latest 4.1.4 PiStar image onto the SD card.
Also noted latest dashboard as of today (13th Feb 2021) is 201210212
I noticed this morning on my PiStar MMDVM Dashboard consoles, that it was showing an alert message at the top of the PiStar (red) Dashboard page, advising me there was a new release and that I simply need to click the link to upgrade my two PiStars, one was 4.1.1, the other was 4.1.2.
Clicked the link, it upgraded within 30 seconds or so, and it ready to go, first my SingleHAT MMDVM went from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2, then clicked the link again from Admin console view to upgrade it to 4.1.3, then the Alert appeared again, I then clicked again to go to 4.1.4, I then followed same procedure to do my DualHAT MMDVM node, going from 4.1.2 > 4.1.3 > 4.1.4
This was so easy, OMG, that simplification of upgrade by the PiStar Development team was absolutely fantastic. The manual method of upgrade did not phase me, but I did wonder how non-computer related people would do the upgrades. But the answer to that dilemma is now right there in the latest dashboard.
Congratulations to the PiStar Development Team for the new automated upgrade process.
As of today, my MMDVM nodes have PiStar 4.1.4 and Dashboard 20210203 (3rdFeb2021)
