Posted: 12/31/2014 4:27:29 PM EDT
on this  $599 at HRO plus a $100 rebate from Yaesu so not a bad deal overall For the truck gotta get rid of some of the other radios now due to redundancy I had been using an FT1DR to take advantage of our C4FM system fusion repeater locally and was limited by its low power. especially in a vehicle (nice radio but as aHT it was limited) A couple of the other local Ham's have them and like them and I got to use one of the other guys for a few days and it was great --the digitals not so great in the very fringes of the repeater,other than that it I love it Cant wait for the big Brown truck of happiness to arrive. Guess i will be posting some sweetheart deals in the EE to get rid of some of the stuff I dont use anymore much anymore
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on this http://www.hamradio.com/images_manuf/H0-011925A.jpg $599 at HRO plus a $100 rebate from Yaesu so not a bad deal overall For the truck gotta get rid of some of the other radios now due to redundancy I had been using an FT1DR to take advantage of our C4FM system fusion repeater locally and was limited by its low power. especially in a vehicle (nice radio but as aHT it was limited) A couple of the other local Ham's have them and like them and I got to use one of the other guys for a few days and it was great --the digitals not so great in the very fringes of the repeater,other than that it I love it Cant wait for the big Brown truck of happiness to arrive. Guess i will be posting some sweetheart deals in the EE to get rid of some of the stuff I dont use anymore much anymore
Nice looking radio! Off to browse the EE. 
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Quoted: Nice looking radio! Off to browse the EE. Quoted: Quoted: on this http://www.hamradio.com/images_manuf/H0-011925A.jpg $599 at HRO plus a $100 rebate from Yaesu so not a bad deal overall For the truck gotta get rid of some of the other radios now due to redundancy I had been using an FT1DR to take advantage of our C4FM system fusion repeater locally and was limited by its low power. especially in a vehicle (nice radio but as aHT it was limited) A couple of the other local Ham's have them and like them and I got to use one of the other guys for a few days and it was great --the digitals not so great in the very fringes of the repeater,other than that it I love it Cant wait for the big Brown truck of happiness to arrive. Guess i will be posting some sweetheart deals in the EE to get rid of some of the stuff I dont use anymore much anymore Nice looking radio! Off to browse the EE. |
| How do you like the C4FM ? I love the display and the scope on it --gonna have to make a bracket for it to sit on top of the dash though. The nice thing is the quad band currently sits on the passenger side bulkhead of my van with power and remote head wiring already in place. |
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Our club just got approved for a Yeasu Fusion repeater.
They had a deal going where if you currently had a repeater on the air, you could apply to buy a Yeasu Fusion repeater for $500 if you get approved for it by Yeasu. Our club saw it more than anything the chance to get a brand new repeater for $500. I don't know how many people will actually buy a Fusion radio, but one guy did buy the mobile you bought already. I suppose I will end up buying one. The thing with this repeater is that you can be on a digital radio and the repeater outputs it as analog: so you don't have to buy a digital radio to use the repeater. |
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We put an output tone on ours so the analog guys dont break squelch when a digital qso is going on. We initilally thought we had some kind of problem with the repeater and sent it back to Yaesu after 3 months but it turned out there is another repeater about 30miles away that is transmitting off frequency --really wide and the same PL and will kick our repeater and create noise if we key ours at the same time --took forever to nail down and the other repeater guys A. dont beleive it, even after we demonstrated it and B. will get around to it whenever.... Apperntly thier repeater is very old as is the owner and the "club" is VERY cheap and looking to avoid replacing thier box --but all the guys who could have fixed it have died IF you could get parts. So that we are living with for now. Our core members have given them some time to deal with it but now summer is gone and they cant get up to the site.... Those guys dont care becuase according to them thier repeater works fine
I guess the owners of ours dont want to ruffle feathers but if they dont do something soon they are going to have to go to the repeater council and bitch... Anyway OTHER than that it works like a charm --the wide digital voice sounds better than the narrow of course but its like talking to someone in the same room. Once in a while or in the fringes you get some packet loss breakup but its usually only for a second or two. |
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I am currently running a DM710 in my pickup.
As far as I am concerned it is the best thing out there. Especially since I am also into APRS and own the Kenwood HT also. The one guy who has bought the Yeasu rig owns several DM710s and says he likes the Yeasu better. But, he is not really into APRS although he does have it. |
| It would be nice if the big 3 would agree on or come up with an open standard for digital FM VHF or make their stuff capable of P25. They will sell a heck of a lot more radios that way than 3 or 4 competing standards that fight for market share where eventually the Chinesee come out with something that will emulate them all at half the price and THEY win. |
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It would be nice if the big 3 would agree on or come up with an open standard for digital FM VHF or make their stuff capable of P25. They will sell a heck of a lot more radios that way than 3 or 4 competing standards that fight for market share where eventually the Chinesee come out with something that will emulate them all at half the price and THEY win. I, too, pray for an open standard...or at least one common industry standard. I think we are quite a bit off from that though...you never know I guess. Miracles do happen.
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It would be nice if the big 3 would agree on or come up with an open standard for digital FM VHF or make their stuff capable of P25. They will sell a heck of a lot more radios that way than 3 or 4 competing standards that fight for market share where eventually the Chinesee come out with something that will emulate them all at half the price and THEY win. ^^^THIS!!!^^^ Agreed! Someone needs to knock the heads together of these three boneheads so they will learn to play together! 
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I am hoping some of the bright lights out there --like the guys who gave us CHIRP or HRD before it became merely a profit making enterprise will come up with a solution because those of us waiting for Ken-Com-Su to swallow their corporate prides and make it happen will see hell freeze over long before I am afraid. And Moto is like the H&K of the radio world "ewww! icky civillians !! we dont want to sell radios to THEM!"
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It would be nice if the big 3 would agree on or come up with an open standard for digital FM VHF or make their stuff capable of P25. They will sell a heck of a lot more radios that way than 3 or 4 competing standards that fight for market share where eventually the Chinesee come out with something that will emulate them all at half the price and THEY win. This is why I wasn't really in favor of getting this Yeasu Fusion repeater. And why I am not chomping at the bit to get a digital radio to use on the repeater (which we don't have yet). I, so far at least, have refused to buy into this bullshit with everybody trying to re-invent the wheel just so they don't have the same thing as someone else. The only digital voice modes I operate are P25 using a Motorola and FreeDV which is open source. The hell with D-Star and Yesau Fusion. I think it is bullshit that you have to wire a microphone differently for each brand of radio. I think the whole thing should be standardized. There is soon going to be a radio, currently known as the white box radio that you will be able to load the software to enable it to operate whatever codec you want. I am sure that "the big three" will cock block it every possible way. While I am on a rant: screw the "big three". I do own a Kenwood TS-590 and a Yeasu FT-817 but the rest of my HF gear is Elecraft, Flex, or Collins. And for what it's worth, I absolutely feel that I have FAR better radios than anything put out by the so-called "Big Three". I have no choice with VHF/UHF stuff other than Motorola, so I do have Japanese stuff there. But this isn't about some issue with the Japanese other than this whole thing with not making any standardization of anything related to ham radio. We can even settle on one size phono plug for headphones or a key. |
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How do you like the C4FM ? I love the display and the scope on it --gonna have to make a bracket for it to sit on top of the dash though. The nice thing is the quad band currently sits on the passenger side bulkhead of my van with power and remote head wiring already in place. I really have no other digital experience, but I think it sounds great, and it definitely makes things sound clearer further away. The APRS is extremely easy to use with this head unit. I don't know what part of PA you are in but here is a System Fusion repeater list for our general area. Here |
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Cool thanks -repeaterbook now notes System fusion, P25,D-star and echolink etc type features so You can see where they are all over the place or search by those features --nice you guys have ours listed W3SDR I can see the tower from my back window  Ad is up now but no pics yet http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_7_139/1387226_.html&page=1 |