[RVRC] YAESU's digital radios(better system over D-Star)

[Marvin Bronstein]

RADIO BUSINESS: YAESU INTRODUCES SYSTEM FUSION DIGITAL AUDIO AT DCC

Yaesu used the occasion of the recent ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference held in Seattle, Washington to introduce the latest links in its chain of new products aimed at the VHF and UHF digital voice market. Called System Fusion, the new product line uses the previously introduced C4FM / FDMA mode introduced in the company’s FT 1DR Handheld and FTM 400DR mobile digital and analog dual band transceivers coupled with its soon to be released DR-1 dual mode repeater. It will also have an optional interconnect to the Internet using a stand alone HRI-200 Wires X interface unit.

Yaesu’s System Fusion repeater differs in one important way from most previous entries into the ham radio digital marketplace as it retains traditional FM interoperability along with C4FM / FDMA digital voice operation. This according to Yaesu means that both analog and digital users can share one repeater and communicate with each other. 

The presentation of the new System Fusion was made by Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, who is Yaesu’s Executive Vice President Amateur Radio Sales. It was video recorded by Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, of Ham Radio Now dot TV. You can see it on line at tinyurl.com/yaesu-digital-audio-dcc. Theres also a new remailer set up to comment on this new digital voice system. Its at groups.yahoo.com/group/YaesuSystemFusion and YaesuSystemFusion is spelled as one word. (Yaesu, HamRadioNow, ARNewsline)