Pi-Star Contributors

Pi-Star is a complex project, its a little older than many realise, with the first versions of a Raspberry Pi image, that was actually called Pi-Star being built in August 2014.

There a few people who contributed in the early days, mostly the contributions came in the form of problems thay had suffered in trying to get D-Star working, and how complex it was, so first off I'd like to say a personal thank you to all of the members of Blackwood & District ARS, for their support, moans, rants and feedback.

Next a special thank you to Mark (MW0MAU), who is the keeper of a nearby D-Star gateway, his needs form the basis of the 'pistar-keeper' application, that is soon to be re-written.

I can't ignore the feedback, abuse, criticism, constant phone calls and abuse (yes I said abuse twice, because he's abused me *THAT* badly) from Adrian (M0GLJ), without who, most of you would never have heard of Pi-Star in the first place. Adrian convinced me to allow him to tell the world about Pi-Star, because he thought it was that good, the release was already public, but almost nobody seemed to know about it before motor mouth Adrian came on board - thank you Adrian, not just from myself, but from all of the users who now use Pi-Star.

Now that you know who helped push Pi-Star into existance, there are some more special people who we all owe a debt of grattitude for their willingness to relese their software for free. Johnathan Naylor (G4KLX) for his most excellent DStarRepeater, ircDDBGateway suite, and more recently MMDVMHost and DMRGateway, these applications form the core of what makes Pi-Star what it is, and without these excellent applications Digital Voice for Amateurs would be an entirely different and barron landscape.
Hans-J Barthen (DL5DI) for his early ircDDGGateway dashboard, this forms the basis of the dashboard in use for DStarRepeater mode on Pi-Star, it's been quite extensivly modified, but his work gave me a very good start, thank you.
Kim Huebel (DG9VH) for his MMDVMHost dashboard, I used a quite early build and I believe much has changed since, but again like Hans' work, what Pi-Star uses has been extensivly modified. Without this work as a starting point, Pi-Star would not be what it is today.

And now to you dear reader, you are probably reading this because you already run Pi-Star, or you are about to start, without you, this project wouldn't be where it is today, a shining beacon of what can be when a few like minded people with similar interests are prepaired to set monatary gain asside and just give away their work. You might not be a coder, you might not feel that you understand digital radio enough to give anythihng back, but that time will come, enjoy the hobby, tell your friends what we got right with Pi-Star, and tell us when it does somthing it shouldn't.

Below is a non exhaustive list of people who have donated to the project to help kick it off and/or to keep it alive:

Bruce GivenMark GuibordCraig Gagner
DV ModemsGeorge MusikovMatthew Harrold
Rob van RheenanAlbert TaylorFran Miele
Paul DelmelleToshen GoliasNicholas Cannata
Andy AshleyTerry TassosJohn Landry
Brian HolmanScott EvansClarence Arnstedt
Pascal - F5UABScott EvansRaymond Russo
Walter (Scale Robotics)Henrik HaumannGianni Arcieri
Oleg MorozKevin DrisselSteven Hess
Guillaume LaroucheEdward HealyDavid Hartley
Clifton GurlenDean MemoryGraham Auld
Mohd - 9M2TPT/M0HIKKeith ThomasRoger Fouyer
Joseph - NE2ZDuane ReeseRob - VE7FU/VE7ROB
Adam GerrardAndrzej - SP4HXVMichael Ladd
Robert TalbotMichael LaddPaul Driver
Eugene - N9MXQOliver - DW7FCVDavid Hartley
Brad - N8QQCarty - KA2YDavid Young
Jeremy CarterJoseph - N4NQYDave - K6WDE
Kevin CrandallMike - W0STBRick Mathis
Rodney - KB2FJDScott - VK7HSEEarl - VE7QJ
Vy SystemsCarlos - PY1EGGAdelaide - MI0CEO
Oliver - DW7FCVMarcel - PD4MMJean - ON6MJ
Daniel - KC1ILHRoberto - LU8EUTChris - N6JET
Nark WheelerJeffrey DayLarry - N8NJ
Mike - KD6FTRJoseph SomersAndrew Sanders
Duane AndlesSteve - K1STTolting Colt Acres
Bob - VK2RGRobert - NW5ARJose - CT1DNU
David - G7HJXJay DenneyKlaus Kitzmantel
Richard - N5CSUFernando - PU2TTEScott - AG7T
Christian - DH1EMGary OwnsbyReginald - KC8YCZ
Donald - W4RMSScott - VK7HSEWilliam Palma
Uwe EbbengaMatteo - IZ4KJUPerry - N4PSH
Richard - WA3UOOTobias - AC7FD / DF7NTCraig Timmons
Teunis - PA0TJJWolfgang - OE3OKSRichard Hankinson
Ed - K6HPZoltan - A65FH/M0MBA/HA5DZSUwe - DJ3FV
Chris HillShane - 2E0VUBChris - DL1DRK
Clem AndrewsGraham - GM0UUBXisco - EC6PG
Jeff HockbergDuane ReeseTaylor Solutions
Audric LperdiRaportzky Inc.Elmark Products
Jose - EA7GAHPhil - G0ELMWalter Kline
Duane - N6DMRJorge - EA4LFDreagon - KK4PSE
Mark WheelerAaron - KC9QQCEd Koedijk
Richard WiehrdtRoy PageSpencer Morris
Toshen GoliasDouglas PieriniMike Styne
Peter - G7OBKChristopher HerdVincent Schuler
Chris HillUladzimir KuletskiGordon Smith
Mike EarwoodJoe - NE2ZJames Cox
Mike AllredBradley - KB9BPFJarbas Borges
Greg HorineGordon SmithJeff - N3GLV
Ken RangenRay - N0KEGDaniel Knous
Joerg - DC9AMRick - M0PZSMichael - KD7CVJ
Stanislav ZlatinovDavid FanninMichele MacCaoni
John - KB9SXFGreg GawronFred Stuart
Tom - W7TCTJoel StacyThorsten - DL9OBM
Dallas - VK5WAMarco NolaIan Stuart
Raportzky IncDavid HolmanSteve - KO4LB
Roger SteierliJoshua VK3FJAWBruno - IS0GQX
Andreas StroblVolker - DL4RCERex - WD0AJG
Mark ThompsonJoseph - NE2ZSal
Gerald BeldenRichard - G8ITBSteve - NJ6J
Howard - KF4ZDLJohn BurninghamKenneth Van Wyk
Jefferson - AK6OMMF Global HoldingsRodney Myers
Peter - ON4HP