Speaker 1: Thank you for choosing to download the ham Radio two
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Speaker 1: out of a video or a livestream I did recently.
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Speaker 1: two point zero and catch us live every Sunday night
Speaker 1: at seven pm Central Standard Time for a different topic
Speaker 1: each week. Thank you for the support, and thank you
Speaker 1: for being a member of the community. This is the
Speaker 1: latest addition to the shark RF line of hotspots called
Speaker 1: the m one k E or what they call the mic.
Speaker 1: M one k is what it says, but when you
Speaker 1: power it up, it says Mike connected, so it calls
Speaker 1: itself a MIC. Recently I got an email from shark rf.
Speaker 1: They have added the access for ia X two or
Speaker 1: all Star link to this system. So not only does
Speaker 1: this now do DMR d Star system fusion P twenty five,
Speaker 1: nxdn YSF all of the things and transcode between all
Speaker 1: of the things. This is sharkr F is the only
Speaker 1: hot spot currently on two or three different models that
Speaker 1: will transcode d Star. But now we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: add all Star to it. So I'm gonna set this
Speaker 1: thing up. I'm gonna show you guys what it looks like.
Speaker 1: I haven't done this yet. I'm too excited about it.
Speaker 1: I got the email about thirty minutes ago. I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta make a video about this. Let's go. This
Speaker 1: is the website here now. At the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: they're actually running an Easter sale on this on the
Speaker 1: MIC and on the open Spot four pro so twenty
Speaker 1: euros off of the open Spot four. It looks like
Speaker 1: still twenty euros off of the Mic one to three
Speaker 1: day shipping worldwide. The email that I got from them
Speaker 1: this morning is right here and it says it goes
Speaker 1: until April twenty. First, I'll share this on a shopping video.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys will see it, maybe in my email list.
Speaker 1: Go sign up on my email list. Han Radio two
Speaker 1: dot com forward slash email dash sign up. So all
Speaker 1: Star Link support, the all Star Link and IAX two
Speaker 1: support for the MIC is now available in stable firmware
Speaker 1: V two six. I'm on firmware V two on this
Speaker 1: right now, which I'm gonna show you here in a minute.
Speaker 1: You can find detailed instructions in the user manual, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna open that up here shortly. You can easily
Speaker 1: connect to a lot of analog repeaters all around the
Speaker 1: world using all Star Link. The new firmware update includes
Speaker 1: several new features as well. See a list of changes here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna open that up and then importantly right now,
Speaker 1: for stuff going on in the USA, US customers can
Speaker 1: continue to purchase from our online store free of customs
Speaker 1: and duties. SHARKRF is located in Estonia and at the
Speaker 1: time of this recording, there are no tariffs for anywhere
Speaker 1: but China. They put a pause in all tariffs except
Speaker 1: for anywhere but China. Who knows if that's gonna last.
Speaker 1: I don't. This video is not about tariffs, so we're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about that. But let's check this
Speaker 1: out and add all Star link to Let's update the
Speaker 1: firmware and add all Star link to it. This is
Speaker 1: the unit here. I'm gonna power it up by holding
Speaker 1: down that button. So we're connected to a TGIF server
Speaker 1: right now. Talk group two nine one eight five, which
Speaker 1: is the stump Knocker talk group. And when we go here,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna press this button on the bottom, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go down to settings. No, I'm gonna go down
Speaker 1: to about right there, and I'm gonna go down. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see firmware version is V one two. I was
Speaker 1: thinking it was V two zero. I was wrong. V
Speaker 1: one two and the firmware built it was built on
Speaker 1: January sixth of this year. There's a bootloader uptime. You
Speaker 1: can see all kinds of stuff in there. It's a
Speaker 1: cool menu. If you go back one and go to
Speaker 1: settings and Wi Fi and click on network status. Right here,
Speaker 1: you can see what your IP address is eight one
Speaker 1: dot fifty eight, and that is where we are right
Speaker 1: here on this So the easiest way there might be
Speaker 1: a way to upgrade from the screen. You can do
Speaker 1: most everything from the screen, and quite frankly, I haven't
Speaker 1: looked to update from the screen, but today we're going
Speaker 1: to update it from this web interface. So I just
Speaker 1: typed in one nine eight one dot fifty eight, which
Speaker 1: is what the dynamic IP that it pulled from my
Speaker 1: network here, and you can see over on the far
Speaker 1: right there's a orange star next to this upgrade button
Speaker 1: and if we click on that, it says that upgrade
Speaker 1: is scheduled for Wednesday, April sixteenth, So now you know
Speaker 1: when I'm actually that's tomorrow, but still now you know
Speaker 1: when I'm recording this video tomorrow at four o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. Okay, and device firmware is V twenty six stable,
Speaker 1: that's what it wants. That's the available upgrades. So we're
Speaker 1: at V twelve as I just showed you, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna upgrade it. So I'm just gonna click on upgrade. Now,
Speaker 1: please connect Mike to a power supply. I can do that.
Speaker 1: It is a USB C connector on the bottom of
Speaker 1: this thing. So I'm gonna connect it and uh click
Speaker 1: on upgrading. Okay, there we go. So now it's now
Speaker 1: it's upgrading. And again it will do this by itself
Speaker 1: if you just leave it powered on and and running.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it does the automatic update
Speaker 1: by itself if it's not connected to a power supply.
Speaker 1: It doesn't want to download and install an update on
Speaker 1: a low battery and then have the device die in
Speaker 1: the middle of an update, because you can break a
Speaker 1: device pretty easily that way. So this makes sense that
Speaker 1: it wants to be connected to a power supply, but
Speaker 1: I haven't actually done I'm pretty sure it's done an
Speaker 1: update or two since I bought this device. I did
Speaker 1: buy this device directly from shark eraf that's the only
Speaker 1: place you can get it. I always get the question.
Speaker 1: Is there somewhere in the USA that sells these, No,
Speaker 1: theres not, but you can buy them directly from sharkof
Speaker 1: dot Common Estonia without any tariffs or fees, and they're
Speaker 1: pretty fast on shipping two, three or four days. All right,
Speaker 1: so now we're rebooting, and here is the manual for
Speaker 1: what the new all star Link connector will look like.
Speaker 1: The easiest way to use a quick setup menu on
Speaker 1: the device or quick Setup page on the web interface.
Speaker 1: The following voice code x are supported GSM. I don't
Speaker 1: know familiar with with any of that. If this connector
Speaker 1: is active, a menu called i ax ix two slash
Speaker 1: all star Link will appear on the display's main menu. Can
Speaker 1: access it by long pressing the down button on the mainscreen. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: right there, All Start Link all Start Link token A token.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be. This is gonna be what
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to add to my server. A token
Speaker 1: is required to connect to an all star Link server.
Speaker 1: This can be acquired from your all star Link account.
Speaker 1: You need to sign up at all star link dot org.
Speaker 1: If you don't see a green check mark next to
Speaker 1: the token. Then the token is invalid. You can request
Speaker 1: one by clicking on the request button and entering your
Speaker 1: all star link dot Org account call sign and password. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so you need a token, so I guess it. You
Speaker 1: choose all star link here, So let's just go back over.
Speaker 1: This is the web interface, so it's freebooted already. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to connectors and see what else is
Speaker 1: on there. No, there, it is right there. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: under the head of ia X two. So I a
Speaker 1: X two and this is the screen that comes up
Speaker 1: all star link or ia x two. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what ia x two is. Maybe somebody who's more familiar
Speaker 1: with allster than me. So request token, server, server address,
Speaker 1: and port. Okay, enter your all star link dot org password. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we have the token, server server address, and I've
Speaker 1: got all this stuff for Oh okay, there it is
Speaker 1: took a minute to come up. So you've got all
Speaker 1: these servers in here. Let's see if I'm even in here,
Speaker 1: k C five, HWB, grape Vine. Look at that. That's
Speaker 1: after getting a token. Okay, so that is the Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the IP address to my all Star server and
Speaker 1: we're gonna go save. I'm gonna switch to selected no idea. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know the note is right for three months
Speaker 1: is my hub. This is my hub. This is my
Speaker 1: all Star hub. It said Mike connected to all Star
Speaker 1: link for three one, three six. Now what I want
Speaker 1: to do is I want to go over to this page.
Speaker 1: If you've watched any of my live streams about all Star,
Speaker 1: you'll know that Hamradio two dot Com forward slash all
Speaker 1: Star is my the and this is this is my
Speaker 1: supermont page and it's open to it's open to anyone.
Speaker 1: It's opened to anyone at all. So now it's connected. Okay.
Speaker 1: So there I am right there and it's connected. It
Speaker 1: says it's connected via EchoLink and it's got my notee
Speaker 1: k C five HWB. Okay. Cool. So it's making an
Speaker 1: EchoLink connection, which is totally cool. We're going to see
Speaker 1: how it sounds here in just a minute. It's making
Speaker 1: an echo link connection to my all Stars. So now
Speaker 1: I've got this guy who I can use to connect
Speaker 1: to DMR on multiple networks, d Star, JESU system Fusion,
Speaker 1: and now it'll connect to my all Star system. How cool.
Speaker 1: Is that? All right? Now, I'm gonna pink Freddie Mack
Speaker 1: and see if he's around to see. Uh so that well,
Speaker 1: let's just see if anyone's on All Star. Okay, k
Speaker 1: C five HWB on All Star, k C five hiv
Speaker 1: B testing a new connection. Looking for anybody out there
Speaker 1: who's listening. K C five HWB All Star. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's see if anybody's actually listening. I heard the oh
Speaker 1: there it is. Okay. I heard what sounded like a
Speaker 1: courtesy tone. There we go. There's Bill zero Whiskey, Hotel Whiskey. Okay, Bill,
Speaker 1: thank you, buddy, Bill, Good morning, K zero Whiskey, Hotel Whiskey,
Speaker 1: KC five HIVB. I am connected to my All Star
Speaker 1: system from my open spot, Mike Shark r F Mike.
Speaker 1: They just did a firmer update and this is a
Speaker 1: DMR D star few Fusion hotspot and they added to
Speaker 1: all Star link to it. And it looks like they're
Speaker 1: using an echo link connection to get into the system.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually recording a video. Man, you're on video
Speaker 1: right now. Say hi to everybody. Bill It's good dude,
Speaker 1: Hi everybody. I tried to do my best mind, I said,
Speaker 1: it sounded good, man, it sounded really good on this.
Speaker 1: I wish I was reportant for you here. Look quiet,
Speaker 1: h okay, good deal. I was wondering if it would
Speaker 1: sound as good because, like I said, it's using an
Speaker 1: echo link connection rather than connecting via you know, directly
Speaker 1: to the system like DV switch or something. But but
Speaker 1: good deal, man, I appreciate the info. Just just gonna
Speaker 1: wrap up this video here and monitor for a bit.
Speaker 1: So there you go. It is. I let me show
Speaker 1: you what this is an overhead of it right here.
Speaker 1: So that's what the screen looks like right there. Where
Speaker 1: are you focused on my hand? That's what the screen
Speaker 1: looks like right there. And we can go to call log.
Speaker 1: So if we long press this button here, it shows
Speaker 1: us where we're connected. We long press the button here
Speaker 1: the top the middle second from the top button, it
Speaker 1: shows we're connected to asl all Star Link and four
Speaker 1: three one three six is my hub and that's where
Speaker 1: we're connected to. So you guys that have EchoLink, you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna connect something, you know, via your EchoLink app
Speaker 1: on your phone. It's going to show something similar to that.
Speaker 1: But that is the Mike hotspot connected to all Star Link,
Speaker 1: which is analog voice. Now, a lot of times I
Speaker 1: make these videos and I'll talk about DMR System Fusion
Speaker 1: or I'll talk about these open spots. It'll be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: how do you connect it to all Star because that's digital? Also,
Speaker 1: no All Stars not even though it's technically digital bits
Speaker 1: and bytes going over the Internet from one end to
Speaker 1: the other. All Star is analog voice. EchoLink is analog voice,
Speaker 1: where DMR, d Star, System Fusion, all those are digital voice.
Speaker 1: So it's all about the voice connection that comes out
Speaker 1: on the other end. Plus with an all Star node,
Speaker 1: not not with this necessarily, but with an all Star
Speaker 1: node that I run in my truck that I have
Speaker 1: here at the house, or with an all Star repeater.
Speaker 1: You can use any old analog radio to connect to
Speaker 1: all Star via you know, from those from a node
Speaker 1: or repeater. Okay, so it doesn't require like a DMR.
Speaker 1: If you have a DMR repeater near you, typically you
Speaker 1: need the DMR radio to connect to it. Same thing
Speaker 1: with a System Fusion repeater, d Star repeater. These are
Speaker 1: all digital voice modes and you need a radio to
Speaker 1: connect to those nodes and or repeaters. With All Stars
Speaker 1: just all analog voice, so you can use any analog
Speaker 1: there's nothing specially to use an eighteen dollars bal fang
Speaker 1: UV five R to connect to an all Star node
Speaker 1: or an all Star or a repeater with all Star
Speaker 1: enabled and talk across the internet over the world to
Speaker 1: all kinds of people. So if you're not on all Star,
Speaker 1: check us out. Join our all Star network for three one,
Speaker 1: three six. I've been off of it for a little
Speaker 1: bit because my the node in my truck died. But
Speaker 1: I just recorded a brand new video with Freddie mack
Speaker 1: Ham Radio Crusader building a brand new portable all Star
Speaker 1: node that's going in the truck. And now I have this.
Speaker 1: Now I have this, so I can be on all
Speaker 1: Star all the time. Now, whether I'm in my truck
Speaker 1: or not so, or whether I'm in the shack or not,
Speaker 1: I should say so put. I'll put links to all
Speaker 1: this in the description below. You guys, go check out
Speaker 1: shark rf dot com. They did not sponsor this video.
Speaker 1: They did not send me this device. I bought this
Speaker 1: when it was new because I knew it was going
Speaker 1: to be popular and I knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be solid. These are some of my favorite hot spots
Speaker 1: out there. Seventy three guys. Let me know what you
Speaker 1: think about this and the comments below, and I hope
Speaker 1: to see you on All Star