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Hi guys, Not much activity on [email protected].. I may be shaking up the message count shortly. *PRELUDE- * Our ham club group took delivery of 2 Yaesu DR2X Fusion repeaters. They were purchased to replace 2 VERTEX VRX-7000 50 watt repeaters. Vertex is no longer Yaesu and in fact, was purchased by MOTOROLA, My opinion is Motorola purchased Vertex simply to eliminate competition. This spring, our Vertex repeater required service, an intermittent. We could not find any support, sources for factory parts and so on. Repair was completed at a personal cost that had it not been volunteered would of cost more than a new repeater. I brought one of the new Yaesu DR2X's home to see what I can do with it. I had many questions as the DR2X repeater manual fails to answer many questions short, of 100% Yaesu methodology of X-wires or special $200 internet boards. Yaesu wants to sell Yaesu. *HOME WITH THE NEW TOY- * Because of a club build, I have built 5-6 SHARI's, a DINAH, and other dongles using WB2EDV's printed circuit board. Plus the VRX7000 repeaters are configured with DMK -URI-x interfaces. I had put together a DINAH to use with my Yaesu FT-817's and also have a Kenwood TM-V7 which uses the DINAH 6 pin cable. So I looked at the DINAH 6 pin cable and the DR2X rear connectors - 15 pin DB 3 row connector and a 10 pin miniature DIN..I had neither but ordered both. and they arrived just before the weekend. Out of the box came the new DR2X on my workshop bench. I programmed it, added dummy loads to both TX outputs and played with it Analog and Fusion using no receive antennas and listening to leakage from the Dummies. I have 2 fusiion radio's, one a HT and 2 analog HT's (actually 11-15 analog HTS). So I put the repeater on a cart, dummy loads, cables and wheeled it from the workshop to the ham shack. Time to try my experiment. I shut down my SHARI ALLSTAR node sitting on top of my 4 drawer file cabinet; removed the SHARI. Installed the DINAH to my RPI3 and rebooted. Listening to the output of the DR2X on a HT.. NOTHING.. I SSHed into my RPI and clicked to Run Simpleusb-tune-menu application. There I selected "V" and saw my COS was ACTIVE. I knew it was not, so I clicked on menu selection "J" Change COSFROM (currently USBINVERT) to just plane USB.. Immediately the DR2X repeater spat out my IP address and voice ID.. I played with it for a while. I found that the Digital audio is a bit higher level at the DINAH than the analog, as I have the repeater set for AMD - Auto mode selection in receive but Fixed Analog FM output. That way anyone rich or poor can use the repeater. I then tested it Saturday evenings with a check in to the Blind Hams net and got good audio reports. I may attempt a AGC circuit on the receiver output to the Dinah mic input. To equalize audio levels between digital and analog. *CONCLUSIONS * Proof of concept works I only used 1 cable to interface it to the DINAH and to convert from my SHARI to DINA-DR2X repeater operation took only one software switch change. I will be playing with this further, perhaps figuring out a AGC circuit for receive audio. On the air tests is one thing, but ALLSTAR across the internet will require finding an assistant and making adjustments- receiving audio quality reports from 2 locations. So it a work in progress but single mode Fusion or Analog it works great! It's only when the repeater is switching between the 2 that analog audio out the back changes. I may call Tech Support tomorrow to see if there are audio level adjustments internal to the DR2X. Regards, Larry W8LM

I have been asked if a cable designed for connecting a WX3in1 (6 pin miniDIN) to an Alinco radio packet connector (9 pin dsub DE9) will work with DINAH (6 pin miniDIN) I have done sone research and discovered that the 6 pin miniDIN wiring is different. Here is how the 6 pin miniDIN connector is wired on DINAH (per the Japanese "standard" for a typical radio): Here is the WX3in1 6 pin miniDIN connector wiring: Steve - N8AR