I recently grabbed a SharkRF OpenSpot from Grapevine Amateur Radio. As of this post, Jason KC5HWB sells the units shipped for $215. What’s better than buying Ham Gear from a Ham! Jason does a video series on “What’s New In Ham Radio”. Be sure to check out his HamRadio 2.0 site for the latest and greatest goodies!
Since I already have a DVMega / Bluespot for the Ham Shack my plan was to set up the OpenSpot for portable operation.
Installed my Gatcepot 24000mAh 5.5A Universal 3-Port Ultra-High Capacity Power Bank , TPLink Nano Router and the SharkRF OpenSpot into the Pelican 1150 case and now go 100% portable by tethering the router to my iPhone 7.
With inspiration from Rob AK7RM’s how to (thanks Rob), I threw my How To version together with some extra info to help with the setup process. I also wanted to specifically cover the problem that hung me up for a bit. Check the note about the SSID value.
This how to is written specifically for use with the the TPLink Nano Router and an iPhone7 in Hotspot mode. However you can probably adapt it to any similar setup.
Get your copy of my OpenSpot Portable Ops document.
Enjoy! Hope To Catch you on DMR 73 – Gary KE2YK
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I’ve been using my openSPOT as a mobile for several months and the results have been absolutely Excellent. I also teamed mine with a TP-Link, and a RAV22000 supply. Very low data usage.
http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_openSPOT.php
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