📡TetraSpot

What it does

• Group and individual calls like on a real network
• Messaging and terminal locations on a map
• Internet access and browsable pages straight on the radio
• Bridges your radios into the nationwide TetraPoland network
• Runs on a single small computer

A TETRA base station normally means a rack of equipment and a budget no radio amateur has. TetraSpot brings it down to one small computer on a desk — and one that behaves like a real network: terminals see it, register to it and talk through it exactly as they would through professional infrastructure.

What it does

• Broadcasts as a valid TETRA network — terminals find it and register
• Group and individual calls, including simultaneous two-way
• Floor control for half-duplex conversations
• Individual and group text messages, with store-and-forward delivery
• Terminal location — live positions on a map
• Internet on the radio — data transfer over the TETRA network
• Browsable pages right on the radio's display: station status, call log and messages
• Two carriers at once — more simultaneous calls and a separate channel for data
• Radio and station positions reach APRS maps
• Optional authentication with a list of permitted terminals
• Over-the-air rekeying
• Dynamic talkgroup assignment
• Telephone gateway — calls to and from the phone network
• Cellular gateway — a text message from a phone reaches the radio and back
• Reading and writing radio settings straight from the panel — no vendor software needed
• An echo service to test your own radio single-handed: you speak and hear yourself back
• Browser management panel: live view, call logs and configuration
• A ready-made memory-card image — the station arrives set up for your callsign and frequencies
• Updates arrive on their own and are digitally signed — a forged one is rejected

In development

• Support for several base stations at once
• A faster data channel — several timeslots at once
• Retransmission of lost fragments