Yaesu: System Fusion HT

[Littlecloud319]

What would be a good HT with YSF for starting out with uhf/vhf dual band that wont break the bank?

 

[Littlecloud319]

Or is there a way to use a DMR radio through a hotspot or something to talk to those on YSF?

 

[prima19rider]

Two radios that meet your requirements the Yaesu ft70d, price $175.00 and the anytone 878. around $299.00. the Openspot3 hotspot will transcode, and give you Dstar, system fusion and DMR, but it will cost more than the radio.

 

[jaspence]

The anyutone is a good radio, but there are dual band DMR radios for about the third that price that will do what you want. I have a btech 6x2, which is the same as an anytone with different firmware. but my GD-77 works fine both with the local repeater and my hotspots. There is an Android app that is in beta that also can get you on YSF or DMR without a radio. I have tried it on several older phones and tablets. It does not work on all of them, but works well on an old Motorola cell phone and a 2016 low end Samsung tablet.

 

[SuperG900]

Any pi-star hotspot will easily allow access to YSF and FCS fusion reflectors from a DMR radio. I have mine setup to do just that. I'm running BrandMeister, TGIF, and DMR2YSF all at once on a duplex pi-star. Sure, there's a bit of work to do setting up DMRGateway and creating TGRewrite rules and such to handle talk groups id's from multiple networks - but the end result is worth the effort, imho.

 

[Littlecloud319]

I ordered a radioddity gd-77 from amazon. Im able to use droidstar on my phone for ysf repeaters here. It seems DMR is more common overall. YSF to me seems like an apple comparison. Im not really supportive of proprietary stuff.

 

[AK9R]

There's a difference between proprietary and single source.

Yaesu has published some of their System Fusion spec and it's available for download from their website. Obviously, the people who make the various hot spots have figured out how to communicate using System Fusion. So, I don't think you can call it proprietary even though Yaesu is the only one making radios for the mode.

 

[Littlecloud319]

Does anyone here have a Radioddity gd-77?

 

[AK9R]

If you have questions about DMR in general or the Radioddity GD-77, I suggest you start a new thread rather than take this one off topic.

 

[N4GIX]

So he should not steer his own thread?