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[NR9V]

AllScan is a free and open-source web app that provides Favorites Management features, AllStarLink Statistics integration, and connection monitoring and control functions.

• Favorites can be added/deleted simply by entering the node# and clicking a button. The favorites.ini file is then updated with the Node#, Name, Description and Location data from the ASL DB.
• Shows your favorites in a table and allows favorites to be connected with a single click (optionally automatically disconnecting any currently connected nodes first).
• Allows the Favorites Table to be sorted by Node#, Name, Description, Location, etc.
• Continually scans the status of each favorite using ASL's stats API data including Keyed status, Connected Node count, TxKeyed time, UpTime, and derived metrics, and shows what favorites are active and have recently been active.

These features now finally enable AllStar nodes to have similar memory management and scan capabilities that analog radios have had for decades. AllScan is mobile-friendly and optimized for ease of use on both small and large screens. Example screenshot:



For more information and to download AllScan on your node visit AllScan.info. 73, NR9V

[KW4CQ]

A very nice idea.  I'll put it to work and check my results.

[N8NK]

Getting kinda hard to keep calling this a 'radio' hobby/service/etc.
Hams seem almost desperate to have computing swamp ham 'radio'.
Reading the title of this post- I almost couldn't tell it was ham radio related.
And I've been a ham for 49 years. Retired biomedical eng., blah blah.
Degress in electronics, computer science and chemistry.. old school programmer.. I'm not anti-PC or anti-technology. I embrace it. I design it.
It's just hard to watch computers destroy radio.
Just my personal opinion- since it was I who uttered the words. lol
N8NK

[NR9V]

Getting kinda hard to keep calling this a 'radio' hobby/service/etc...

Hi N8NK, It sounds like you have not used AllStar before! I'm not the biggest fan of computers either - they sure can be a hassle sometimes    But, they have also enabled some cool things that have improved humanity. Like the internet, and this forum The trick is to make computers work for you, not the other way around.

AllStar bridges the gap between the internet and radio - and by radio I mean real, bonafide high-quality Analog FM. Do you like to talk on VHF repeaters? Me too. But there's only maybe a dozen of them in my area that I talk on and they're only busy at certain times of day.  What if it's 11pm, HF conditions are not great, and there's not much activity on VHF?  AllStar to the rescue. A small simple AllStar node lets you use any FM HT or mobile/base radio to now talk on repeaters anywhere. Just open AllScan in your phone browser, and it shows you in seconds which of your favorite repeaters anywhere in the world are active, and lets you connect to any of them with a single click (similar to dialing a memory channel on a real radio), and voila, you have 100's of people to talk to, who are also using real analog radios.

Personally I'm not a fan of digital modes such as DMR, C4FM, FT8, etc. I have no interest in sounding like a Cylon or looking at a computer screen when on the air. AllStar is in no such category. It uses technology only as a way to get real analog audio from one radio to another over the internet. Just like how your cellphone or landline phone get analog audio from one place to another. Once you set up your node you can stick it in a closet and never look at it again. AllScan just gives you an easy way to scan and change your favorite memory channels from any phone, tablet, PC, etc. 73, NR9V