Best Ham Radio Hotspot for Early 2021 - DMR YSF DSTAR Hotspot

What is the Best Ham Radio Hotspot coming out of 2020 into 2021? Today I talk about my favorite Ham Radio Hotspot for DMR, YSF, DSTAR and other modes coming out of 2020 and going into 2021.

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[derekcraig]

I’ve been a Ham about three months. I’m starting to do my research on hotspots. I really enjoyed your video. Your breakdowns on the hotspots are great ! Thank you !

[jasonfovozzo]

I have owned the openSpot 3 now for 8 months, works great. I have been looking at purchasing the TGIF spot. Informative video. Thanks

[mianesva]

You can change profiles in the OS3 from the radio. Does not always work but handy for when it does.
I do like TGIF overall though. Have 3 of them....

[BLACKHEAT]

Some don’t like the price tag on the Open Spot 3, I have one and it works great.
Although hams like to buy radios with the OS3 you just need one radio and can talk on all. You don’t need to buy 3 radios. Also with it having a built in battery if you tether it to your cell phone you can go mobile with a HT, and I put my HT on extra low power so it last a long time.

[hypnosiscenternyc]

Excellent comparison as always. I have a homemade pi-star unit from a friend ... and an openspot 3 connected to wires x (yaseu 70dr and 991 a) ...

A great video would be on what the active talkgroups are ... yea ...I'm on Nationwide and worldwide on the pi-star and America link on the wires x . But I can't raise the dead on the other talkgroups. I have to go on to Parrot to get someone to talk back, even if its myself! :)

I'm located upstate ny in the catskill mountain area ... My club has a great analog repeater but there's no digital repeaters anywhere. The most excitement on radio up here is programming in all the ems, fire and police scanner frequencies (yes, they're still analog in these parts).

[robertbretzman]

Great video Jason ! great to let fellow hams know the different hotspots avaialable so they can get one to fit their needs.

[FrankBrabec]

Great informative rundown, thanks! I would like to know how the ZUMspot Nextion 3.5 that HRO has for sale compares to these. It looks pretty good but it sure is helpful to learn more the way you highlight and compare features.

[Donkarnage]

Great video once again!! I did purchase the TGIF 3.5 based off your older review. Robert is a great guy and today the TGIF Prime Network was launching if I remember correctly. The only trouble I have is HOW CAN I START MY OWN TALK GROUP? I was approved by TGIf Network to start an Overland/Toyota Talk Group but what else do I need to do??

[andyschrack]

I had the HCP-1 for a week, I returned it. It didn't work well for me. It worked, but not well. I decided to build my own. I think that's the way to go.

[mohawk]

So much information and so well explained. Concise.

My only question, being a noob with digital is how do you talk from the radio to the hotspot? Is it RF or is it IP I get the back end and out to the internet but nobody ever talks about going from radio to hotspot.

You mentioned UHF/VHF is there a specific frequency.

The confusion sets in.

Thanks for another fine well spoken great audio video.

[DonaldChapman]

Great information Jason. Would you be able to make an updated video on the various active reflectors that we can connect to? I have DMR and DSTAR, but I am finding it difficult to find active reflectors to connect to. Thanks in advance!

[bilymac]

I have an OpenSpot 3, but would really like to add a TGIF Spot to the Shack.

[Gravelbomber]

I had no interest in a hotspot, until recently, and got the Openspot 3. I wish I would have gotten one sooner. I think I've used my anytone 878 more in the last few weeks, than I have in the last year. I like that it's portable, and makes it really easy to cross over into dstar, ysf, etc

[jamiecook]

Interesting topic. I have some interest in the open spot. Looks interesting and simple. I have a MDVDM board on a raspberry PI that I bought from eBay and it works fine but it did take my pi computer to use.

[StreetGlideLEP]

I have the Hcp-1 and really enjoy it. I am going to try and use the 200mhz frequency tonight for D74.

[Commodore]

Hi Jason. Great video.
About my new addiction - tetra 😁
Is there a hotspot that supports tetra radios?
Thanks and keep up the good work.

[StephenSmith]

Good video but still not sure where to spend my money. Lol

[stuart]

Tried to buy open spot but they decided not to ship to the UK re Brexit.. so I built a pi star works great and I enjoyed building it. I've also built another for the truck and 3d printed a cases for them :)

[joshuakgptt]

I've been told that the ambe server will run dstar transcoding but It takes a lot of work to set up the kit board used to be sold by HRO and similar designs still available by others I think the OpenSpot is probably a better starting point for most that want plug and play

[gsinman]

I'd be interested in your thoughts on Skybridge Plus. Seems very similar to TGIF minus the touchscreen.