So, I was on a 20 year hiatus from amateur radio when a business associate, T.J. - KC8LTS, introduced me to P25NX dragging me back into the hobby after all these years. A short time later another associate, Dan - W2PUT, introduced me to AllStar and the rest is history. I hope that this entry will inspire others to make their own Allstar node and join the fun... For those of you not familiar with AllStar, you can get an overview here Allstarlink and here Hamvoip . After several mobile radio based nodes and a few repeater interfaces, I decided it was time to build an ultra portable node. The Boafeng 888 makes a great radio on the cheap and is well documented for Allstar service, so it was the obvious choice for my "personal node" One can get up and running with a Raspberry PI, SD card, 888, usb sound FOB, and a small assortment of cheap components. My first 888 node was fairly typical. Radio > FOB > PI with no "integration" which worked very we...