[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Ham Hotline Alternatives

[Joe K]

As mentioned during the club meeting. Hamshack Hotline is shutting down, I’m sure some new service will pop up, but here are the links to the other services that I know of, which currently exist. You can have SIP trunks to multiple simultaneously or get register a single VoIP hard phone or soft client to multiple simultaneously. I also have a half dozen or so servers I’m tinkering with at any given time and I’m happy to give you a trunk.

Based on previous conversations we have enough computer and ram on our Club server stack to host our own as well, which would give members an easy way to learn VoIP stuff.

https://hamsoverip.com/
This one has allstar integrations, which can let you dial into various analog repeaters that support it.

http://amateurwire.org/

https://hamvoip.org/

You can also do a bunch of cool squirrely stuff with your own asterisk server, including bridging to discord, Zello, and mumble.

For our younger hams, this is a fantastic way to build real world job skills while doing fun nerd stuff. https://docs.asterisk.org/Getting-Started/Installing-Asterisk/Installing-Asterisk-From-Source/What-to-Download/

https://www.allstarlink.org/ this is the link for the larger more involved VoIP project related to ham radio. I know we are very echolink averse in the club, but linking one or more of our repeaters to allstar could be cool.

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