SILVER DRAGONS
“Designed for the Ultimate Experience in Ham Radio”
This webpage is designed to educate, inspire and act as an operational and maintenance manual for the Silver Dragon designs.
Each model design serves a very specific purpose. When the various designs are integrated together, a plug and play ecosystem is the result.
With the use of pictures and accompanied written text, radio and Voip recipes with “paint by number“ instructions are used to help others replicate the designs.
To simplify the remote control of the “Master Control Engine”, we are implementing KVM-IP devices with Tailscale VPN bounded to those engines.
For audio we have implemented Mumble Audio Servers, ALLSTAR, IRLP and other VoIP capabilities to broaden the overall functionality.
Where possible, we have implemented devices that generate “webpages” to control the various features.
This results in us being able to “spread out” the capabilities and not have single points of failure and have independent and standalone capability.
This modular design using a “Master Control Engine” allows us to swap out various devices, and control the overall system to suit our needs and tastes and simplifies the whole process.
We are able to switch out various radio manufacturers radios due to the architecture and “future proof” the Silver Dragons as newer radio designs like Flex, Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, etc are added. If stronger or faster computers are needed those too can be swapped out.
The Silver Dragons are built like a castle in which you can add whatever you desire in each room.
The castle is prewired and all one needs to do is add the “furniture and appliances” to achieve the desired results.
We are actively streamlining the system to simplify ongoing maintenance and functionality in a very purposeful manner to increase reliability and uptime.
The Silver Dragons can be operated independently or operated together. For example, the multiple receiver/full duplex links to the the SNV-12 Comparator can be connected to a high profile repeater site to improve coverage or used locally.
Our Founder testing audio clarity.
THE SILVER DRAGONS
To simplify and standardize the fleet, we have these common design models.
SILVER DRAGON MARK I
+ Remote Receiver Package +
SILVER DRAGON MARK II
+ Remote Transceiver Package
SILVER DRAGON MARK III
+ Remote ALLSTAR NODE and UHF REPEATER with VHF REMOTE BASE
SILVER DRAGON MARK IV
+ Remote Receiver, UHF REPEATER, HF REMOTE BASE, ALLSTAR NODE, MUMBLE
SILVER DRAGON MARK V
+ Remote Receiver, SATELLITE REMOTE BASE, HF REMOTE BASE, ALLSTAR, IRLP, MUMBLE
SILVER DRAGON MARK VI
+ Multiple Remote Multi-band Receivers, HF REMOTE BASE, SATELLITE REMOTE BASE, ALLSTAR, IRLP, DIGITAL MODES, MUMBLE, SNV-12 Signal to Noise Comparator, Telephone Line Simulator.
GL.iNet KVM integrates Tailscale, allowing you to bind it to the Tailscale virtual network for remote access.
