[SJRA-Members] Yaesu Active Nodes

[Jeff]

Just to add and echo everyone else, my experience has been the following:

I just tested with my FT3D and was able to connect using the x button.  Obviously you would need to be in range of the k2aa repeater.  If theres another wires repeater by you, you'd be able to connect to that and then control it to  join the k2aa room. 

If you use the kit cable with a PC and the wires x and join the k2aa room you can do the same thing, although im not sure you will have the ability to have the repeater join other rooms

The hotspot rooms aren't the "real" rooms but with at least piStar, you are able to connect DMR to Wires type rooms.  I can't confirm if the dmr rooms are "real" but i was able to talk to someone with dmr via my wiresx.  "It worked" but not sure it was worth the effort-- was fun to try and see if we could make it happen :)

On a seperate note with piStar i wound up getting a screen and using someones code that displays flags based on call signs which makes it pretty neat when talking in those ysf rooms. 

On Mar 30, 2021, 7:58 PM, at 7:58 PM, John Fogleboch via SJRA-Members <sjra-members at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>Hi Craig,
>
>I haven’t tried to connect to either repeater in over a year via WiresX
>but in the past it did work with my PDN.  Both repeaters should be
>connected to WiresX with internet connections but this objective has
>been walked away from over the years by trying to do it on the cheap.
>
>I have been told the introduction of Echo Link on K2AA has really
>screwed things up.  Also K2AA has had hardware problems that have
>plagued it for years and remain unfixed.  I gave up trying to encourage
>the SJRA Officers and BOD to get serious about fixing these problems. 
>There is just no interest in C4FM and WiresX within the current
>administration.  Maybe the new one will get serious and stay with it
>until finished.  
>
>And our third repeater is still off the air with no visible plan on
>what to do with it.
> 
>73,
>John WY2J 
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 30, 2021, at 6:38 PM, Craig Henning <cchenningnj at yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, should have been “Offline Error”
>> 
>>> On Mar 30, 2021, at 18:19, Craig Henning
>>> 
>>> That probably won’t work either, with the two repeaters connected,
>all I get when I try to connect is “Offline Etror”
>>> 
>>> Craig, NC2H 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 30, 2021, at 13:50, John Fogleboch via SJRA-Members
><sjra-members at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Bob,
>>>> 
>>>> You can’t connect any Hot Spot, including the OpenSpot2 or 3, to
>Yaesu’s WiresX network, they are not compatible.  Since the SJRA
>repeaters are not connected to the YSF or FCS networks, that approach
>won’t work either.  
>>>> 
>>>> What will work is to setup a Yaesu Portable Digital Node (PDN)
>which takes a Yaesu compatible transceiver like a FT2D, FT3D, FTM400 or
>a FTD300, the special Yaesu connection cable, a PC with an internet
>connection and free Yaesu software.  You will have to register the
>transceiver you use with Yaesu and receive your node and room ID DTMF
>codes.  This will allow connection to any WiresX node or room including
>the SJRA machines.  See the Yaesu web site for details.  My PDN system
>is down now but Jack WA2HJG has a system that was featured on the cover
>of Harmonics a few months ago  If you own one of the compatible
>transceivers and PC, the cable is sold at HRO for about $60, your total
>new cost.  I hope this helps. 
>>>> 
>>>> 73, John WY2J 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 30, 2021, at 11:54 AM, rmatteucci <rmatteucci at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am wondering if I, as a member out of range of the repeater,
>can use an
>>>>> Openspot3 or other mutli-mode node that can connect to C4FM nodes
>can
>>>>> connect and communicate on the K2AA repeater? If so, what would
>one connect
>>>>> to in terms of YSFReflector number or FCS server / room? Thanks,
>>>>> Bob N2TEV
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