<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Thanks Roger. That site for beginners has a lot to digest but even I understood a lot of it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 3:06 PM Gary Baldwin <<a href="mailto:kf5zrt@gmail.com">kf5zrt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thanks Roger. Great information.</p>
<p>Gary<br>
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<div>On 5/31/2020 1:51 PM, Roger Klein
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Members,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">First, a
disclaimer. This note will mostly be of interest to those
who have the following Yaesu radios: For mobile radios, the
FTM-100DR, FTM-400DR and the soon-to-be-released FTM-300DR.
For handheld transceivers, the FT2DR and the FT3DR. If you
don’t have one of these radios, you are welcome to continue
reading, but I won’t be offended if you hit the delete key!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">As you
probably know, we recently linked Wires-X with the Bellville
repeater. This means that the repeater is linked to the
internet, so users who are not in RF range can connect to
our Wires-X room and communicate with local users on RF as
well as other remote users. Many of you have been
experimenting with Wires-X and getting familiar with its
capabilities such as PDN functionality. Problem is, Yaesu
has a lot of confusing terminology, and sometimes uses two
words for the same thing – or the same word to mean
different things! I found a web site that does a pretty
good job clearing up the confusion with terminology and
acronyms. Here’s the web site: <a href="https://yrdg.org/the-beginners-corner-for-wires-x-and-system-fusion/" target="_blank">https://yrdg.org/the-beginners-corner-for-wires-x-and-system-fusion/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Make sure to
read the section about Portable Digital Nodes. It starts
about 2/3 of the way down the purple section. Yaesu’s use
of the term “PDN” is a masterpiece of confusion, since there
is an overall PDN function on the radios listed above.
However, there are two modes within it, one is also named
PDN mode and the other is HRI mode. There are different
keypress sequences for these two modes when you power on
your radio. But here’s an important point: to access the
club’s room (named W5SFA-ROOM, ID 63655), your radio <b><u>must</u></b>
be powered up in HRI mode, as follows:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">FTM-100/FTM-400: While holding
down the GM and DX keys press the power button.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">FT2D/FT3D: While holding down the
X and BACK keys, press the power button.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">A good
question at this point might be, “Why are we using HRI mode
instead of PDN mode?”. The reason is that HRI mode supports
both both Analog and Digital rooms, whereas PDN mode only
supports Digital. The more popular rooms such as America
Link and Texas Nexus support both Analog and Digital. So if
you are in PDN mode, you won’t be able to connect to these
rooms, nor the W5SFA-ROOM.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hope the
above helps clarify how Wires-X works. Let me know if any
questions!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">73<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Roger N5RWK<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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