Hi Mike,

The dr1x repeater is a dual mode repeater, it will do both analog and 
c4FM digital and will switch automatically acording to the mode of 
transmission sent to it.

The Yaesu digital radios work very well, but like most Yaesu equipment, 
they are not very accessible.  The vhf/uHf mobile rigs like the FTM100DR 
and the FTM400DR can  use an optional voice card that does give some 
feedback but that feedback is very limited. Yaesu's digital dc to 
daylight c4fm rig, the ft9100 does not offer a voice card option..  HT's 
give very little beep tone feedback that is usable.

I must say that the audio from a c4fm transmission is far superior to a 
dStar transmission which suffers from a low sample rate that strips the 
voice of most of its attributes, and dStar repeaters can only do dStar.

Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]

On 7/21/2015 7:09 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Our club is upgrading our repeater inferstructure and the centre piece of this is a brand new Yaesu DR1X repeater.
> Does anyone know anything about this repeater? I know its C4FM capable, think its similar to DStar. Anyway we'll have 3 other repeaters linked to this Yaesu. Now if I could only conince the club to link up with the rest of the C4FM global network, if 1 exists like DStar, it would be awesome.
>
> 73:
> Mike DE VO1AX