thelinkbox | Local patches to the CQiNet TheLinkBox project

thelinkbox is a C library. thelinkbox has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Welcome to thelinkbox, a member of the CQiNet family. Thelinkbox is an voice over IP (VoIP) radio linking package for ham radio operators that runs under FreeBSD and Linux, and hopefully other Posix compatible operating systems. It does not and probably never will run under Windows. Thelinkbox is basically thebridge conferencing software with additional code to interface to radios. Although the primary purpose is for VoIP linking of a limited number of repeaters "off grid", i.e. separate from the EchoLink and IRLP networks it can also be used on the Echolink or IRLP networks when properly configurated. Unlike some other VoIP systems thelinkbox also supports multiple radio ports. The ultimate goal is for thelinkbox to become a full featured multiport hub or repeater controller as well as a VoIP application. I believe the use of USB audio dongles under Linux will allow a modern PC to support a larger number of radio ports than are likely to be needed by even the largest repeater groups (> 16 ports), although I have yet to test the limit in practice.