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2E0FNM

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Post by 2E0FNM » Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:09 am

What digital radio's are you using?

I love the digital modes, my current radio for digital are..

The Yaesu FT1D for fusion
The Yaesu FT3D for fusion, I got this for Christmas.
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Aliunce HD1 GPS for DMR
Icom ID-31 for D Star
Icom ID-52 for D-Star

Just wondered what other people use,

I have 2 hotspots, one i made myself years ago and one I bought from DV-Mega

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Matt
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Post by M7FWD » Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:29 am

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

Hi am new to al this as recently passed at foundation.

I have started to learn DMR using a Retevis Rt3s and I have setup a hotspot at home.

I have recently got an Icom ID52e and I am starting to get my head around D-star. which seems to a newb like myself to be a tad complicated.

I am very impressed with the 52e though on the analogue repeaters etc.
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Post by 2E0FNM » Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:51 am

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

M7FWD wrote:
Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:29 am
Hi am new to al this as recently passed at foundation.

I have started to learn DMR using a Retevis Rt3s and I have setup a hotspot at home.

I have recently got an Icom ID52e and I am starting to get my head around D-star. which seems to a newb like myself to be a tad complicated.

I am very impressed with the 52e though on the analogue repeaters etc.
D star can seem quite complicated at first but once you have it programmed it's very intuitive. If you managed to get DMR working you have cracked it! That's the hardest to do with codeplugs etc...

The 52 is amazing! A great reflector is REF055D, lots of people share pictures on there and you can do that straight from your icom id52.

ST-4001A app for your phone is great to as you can pick a photo from your phone and send it over to the radio and just TX it.

Welcome aboard and great to see you here. Your most welcome.
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Matt
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Post by M7FWD » Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:20 am

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

Hmmm well D-star is testing me a little, but in my defence I am working in Liverpool 7 days a week at the moment so after a 14 hour day away from home is probably not my peak problem solving time lol. the Icom 52e is connecting to my hotpsot and it shows as transmitting on the dashboard but I am yet to receive anything. I have some time off coming up so I will get tore into solving this next week :D
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Post by admin » Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:11 am

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

M7FWD wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:20 am
Hmmm well D-star is testing me a little, but in my defence I am working in Liverpool 7 days a week at the moment so after a 14 hour day away from home is probably not my peak problem solving time lol. the Icom 52e is connecting to my hotpsot and it shows as transmitting on the dashboard but I am yet to receive anything. I have some time off coming up so I will get tore into solving this next week :D
From memory when programming a simplex hotspot in a d star radio you need to give it an offset even is there's isn't one. So for example you put in a + offset but have the offset frequency set to 0 that's something some people get confused.

Hope that helps but you will get it sorted and once you do you will really enjoy d star.
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Matt
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Post by M7FWD » Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:58 am

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

admin wrote:
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:11 am
M7FWD wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:20 am
Hmmm well D-star is testing me a little, but in my defence I am working in Liverpool 7 days a week at the moment so after a 14 hour day away from home is probably not my peak problem solving time lol. the Icom 52e is connecting to my hotpsot and it shows as transmitting on the dashboard but I am yet to receive anything. I have some time off coming up so I will get tore into solving this next week :D
From memory when programming a simplex hotspot in a d star radio you need to give it an offset even is there's isn't one. So for example you put in a + offset but have the offset frequency set to 0 that's something some people get confused.

Hope that helps but you will get it sorted and once you do you will really enjoy d star.
Thanks I am off work now for 6 days, so I will be delving into sorting this out along side setting up my shack :)
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Post by M7PTH » Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:32 pm

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

I'm new to the hobby having just passed my Foundation exam on Jan 21st.

I want to learn about C4FM and WIRES-X and am thinking of the a setup something like the following::

- FT3D
- FTM-300D
- HRI-200
- WIRES-X software on PC

Could you help me with a few questions?

- what is a Gateway? Is it the donor/node radio and the HRI-200? I see 431.800 in the video of Matt's setup. Is that assigned? Or do you have to apply for it? Or can you just pick any frequency?

- does the node/donor radio need to be anything special considering its only going to be used as a 'Gateway'? Or would something cheaper than an FTM-300D be sufficient?

- i travel between my home in Chorley and a holiday home in Wales, so I want to be antenna-free. If I wanted to use something like an FTM-400/500 to transmit/receive instead of an FT3D, could I plug that into the Radio 2 socket on the back of the HRI-200 and use that antenna-free? I understand a dummy load would be required on the node/donor radio. If I used the FTM-400/500 to transmit/receive, would that need a dummy load as well?

- does every device connected to WIRES-X need to be registered on yaesu.com? If yes, does that mean each device requires it's own Member ID for registration purposes?

Sorry if these question seem a little basic! But as a new person to the hobby and knowing very little about C4FM/WIRES-X, I'm just trying to understand it more before going ahead and buying the wrong kit or kit I may not need.

Thanks for your help.

Paul.
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Post by admin » Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:02 pm

Re: What digital radio's are you using?

M7PTH wrote:
Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:32 pm
I'm new to the hobby having just passed my Foundation exam on Jan 21st.

I want to learn about C4FM and WIRES-X and am thinking of the a setup something like the following::

- FT3D
- FTM-300D
- HRI-200
- WIRES-X software on PC

Could you help me with a few questions?

- what is a Gateway? Is it the donor/node radio and the HRI-200? I see 431.800 in the video of Matt's setup. Is that assigned? Or do you have to apply for it? Or can you just pick any frequency?

- does the node/donor radio need to be anything special considering its only going to be used as a 'Gateway'? Or would something cheaper than an FTM-300D be sufficient?

- i travel between my home in Chorley and a holiday home in Wales, so I want to be antenna-free. If I wanted to use something like an FTM-400/500 to transmit/receive instead of an FT3D, could I plug that into the Radio 2 socket on the back of the HRI-200 and use that antenna-free? I understand a dummy load would be required on the node/donor radio. If I used the FTM-400/500 to transmit/receive, would that need a dummy load as well?

- does every device connected to WIRES-X need to be registered on yaesu.com? If yes, does that mean each device requires it's own Member ID for registration purposes?

Sorry if these question seem a little basic! But as a new person to the hobby and knowing very little about C4FM/WIRES-X, I'm just trying to understand it more before going ahead and buying the wrong kit or kit I may not need.

Thanks for your help.

Paul.
M7PTH
Hi Paul!

Welcome to the hobby! Sure you will get many years of enjoyment from it :)

A gateway is a donor radio yes, you only need a HRI 200 if you want to host your own room.

For a donor radio you could use an FTM 100 or if its for around the house an FT2, FT3 or FT5 would be ideal. as a foundation holder you are not able (as yet, this may change as ofcom are looking at this) to apply for an NOV to trasmit on air with a gateway, you would of course put the radio on a dummy load and use around the house.

only the radio that is the node/gateway needs to be registered at Yaesu the radio you wish to talk to the node on does not.

Hope this answered some questions for you Paul

One other way is you could use an FT3 or FTM 100 and use whats called PDN mode, this allows you to connect the radio to the PC and talk into the mic, no RF comes out but would be ideal as an internet radio, this would have to be registered on Yaesu :)

Thanks for asking and I hope I cleared some things up for you
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Matt
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