I have my node on a commercial Kenwood repeater here at my house--on ham 
freqs of course.  The club I'm involved in uses an alinco and it works 
well.  As I said, we use it on the repeater, but it has some problems 
doing it that way because of the slowness of the tone decoder.  As a 
simplex radio it would work fine.

Because i r l p has their own install which doesn't talk, I had help with 
the initial install, but once it is on line and sees the l a an, I can 
access it through the windows machine.  I use a terminal program and a 
program called winscp which lets one move, edit, and copy files.  Works 
like a dream.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr