yeah, the repeater is two FT 400dr's in a box lol.
With some fancy controller gismo that turns it into a repeater etc.
Full analogue, and Digital capability either stand alone, or networked for 
the digital side.  I would imagine that at something like 600 bucks a 
repeater, there will be all kinds of people across north america connecting 
up and it won't be just the Japanese hams like with the wires network.
It seems to be a decent enough repeater, though it's certainly no icomm 6000 
or vertex 3000 as far as ability to tx all day long at 50W.  Our club bought 
6 of them.
Yaesu claims it will do 100 per cent duty cycle at 50w, but they claim that 
about other radios that heat up to the point where you can fry an egg on 
them even at 25w as well.
Time will tell how reliable these machines are.
And, how advantagious the digital side is over IRLP, Echolink, DStar, DRM, 
ITAS and Nextedge.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message----- 
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 5:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Yaesu DR1X Repeater

Mike,
our club has three of those repeaters - 2 on 2m and one on 440.  Not
much of a knowledge base yet - and i think that the handhelds and
mobile is pricy and I have no idea of the accessibility.  Yaesu is
almost giving away the repeaters.  Very clever marketing.
Pat, K9JAUAt 06:09 PM 7/21/2015, you 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