Starlink is amazing. But Flex was never designed to run over it.

Flexitnode is a small appliance for your remote site, paired with a node in the cloud. Together they make your radio behave as though it were on a fixed line.

“Starlink is amazing, but Flex was never designed to run over Starlink — Flexitnode fixes that.”

Does this sound like you?

Five lines. If the first four are yours, the fifth is the answer.

1You have a FlexRadio. A 6000, an 8000, an Aurora — anything you would normally drive with SmartSDR.
2You have a remote site. Somewhere quiet, away from the noise, where the radio actually wants to live.
3You have Starlink at that site. Because it is the only sensible way to get bandwidth to your remote site.
4And you cannot get it working properly. It will not connect from outside. CG‑NAT causing endless issues. Many hours spent trying things, and forum post after forum post — to no avail.
5Get a Flexitnode. Problem solved. The appliance goes in at the site, creates a static endpoint, and your client connects to something that stays still.

How it works

Starlink puts your site behind shared, carrier-grade NAT: there is no fixed address to dial into, and nothing from outside can reach in. Flexitnode stops trying to fight that and turns the connection around.

At your site

Your Flex, plus the Flexitnode appliance. It reaches out; nothing needs to reach in.

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In the cloud

Your own private endpoint — a fixed, reachable address that never moves, whatever Starlink does.

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Wherever you are

SmartSDR on a PC or Mac, an iPad, an iPhone or your Maestro connects to the cloud node. It looks like a radio on a fixed line.

Remove the complexity

Most remote-Flex setups end up as a stack of workarounds piled on top of one another, each one something else that can break while you are nowhere near it. Flexitnode replaces the stack.

No ZeroTier or Tailscale mesh to build, invite every device to, and keep alive.
No LAN bridging and no layer-2 tunnel stretched across the internet.
No port forwarding — which Starlink will not give you anyway.
No static IP and no dynamic DNS to chase every time the address moves.
No VPN client to install, log in to and maintain on every machine you operate from.
No router surgery at a site that is hours down the road.

Whatever you already use to drive the radio: SmartSDR on a Windows PC or a Mac, SmartSDR on an iPad or iPhone, or your Maestro. Nothing extra to install: simply log in with Flex SmartLink and you are done. It works the way it does at home.

Bonus things you can do!

Once the radio is reachable from anywhere, it stops being just your radio when you want it to be.

Share your club radio with members. Everybody operates from home, and nobody needs a key to the site or a lift out there.
Share your radio with your mates. Let a friend have a play, hand it over for a contest, or have someone cover the station while you are away.
Two operators at once. If your radio is licensed for two operating positions, both of them can be remote.
Remotely power the radio on and off. Your Flexitnode carries a four‑channel SPDT relay board. Port 1 goes to REM PWR on the Flex, so the radio can be brought up or shut down from wherever you happen to be.
Remote PTT. SmartLink will sometimes want you to hit a local PTT to prove you really do have control of the radio. No trouble with a Flexitnode — you have one.
Two spare relay channels. With power and PTT taken care of, two of the four are still free: an antenna switch, a power circuit, or anything else you would otherwise have to drive out to flip.