Yaesu: Yaesu 991A - Wires X Transceiver ID Not Reading

[IrvineCAGuy]

Yaesu 991A is connected to laptop using USB cable - am able to communication via programming software.
However, launching Wires-X application, selecting "standard "or "enhanced" port, the Activation page does not read the Transceiver ID.
Therefore, I can't initialize the application software. I presume because the software is not seeing the 991A.
Anyone with some tips or hidden menu options that need to be set?

 

[ko6jw_2]

Did you register your copy of Wires-X? The radio ID is required to do this. Are you simply trying to access the Fusion system with the radio or are you trying ti set up a node? I am not familiar with the 991A but I have registered a couple of copies of Wires-X. There is a menu item which will display the radio ID.

 

[IrvineCAGuy]

Did you register your copy of Wires-X? The radio ID is required to do this. Are you simply trying to access the Fusion system with the radio or are you trying ti set up a node? I am not familiar with the 991A but I have registered a couple of copies of Wires-X. There is a menu item which will display the radio ID.

No, I'm trying to activate it on a new laptop. I suspect the PC is not communicating with the 991A via USB. Someone said it does not, which makes no sense to me.

 

[n9upc]

Yaesu 991A is connected to laptop using USB cable - am able to communication via programming software.
However, launching Wires-X application, selecting "standard "or "enhanced" port, the Activation page does not read the Transceiver ID.
Therefore, I can't initialize the application software. I presume because the software is not seeing the 991A.
Anyone with some tips or hidden menu options that need to be set?

You cannot use the FT-991a with WiRES-X unless you have an HRI-200 and then ONLY in FM.

Are you trying to do something more with it that was not listed?

 

[IrvineCAGuy]

Reading the marketing literature is not the same as understanding the technical specs. I was hoping the 991A would do as much if not more than my FTM-300 and Wires-x. thanks. thread closed.

 

[n9upc]

Reading the marketing literature is not the same as understanding the technical specs. I was hoping the 991A would do as much if not more than my FTM-300 and Wires-x. thanks. thread closed.

The FT-991a is an all mode/all band - shack in the box. The built in Sound Card takes place of the audio routing path that WiRES-X.

In addition, the FT-991a came out with the first generation of Fusion/WiRES-X. This was 5 years prior to the addition of PDN.

 

[ArtU]

A FT-991 cannot be used with a HRI-200 to be a wires-x node, nor was it ever designed to be a node.

It is only a client, and good one for C4FM on 10 meters simplex.

 

[n9upc]

A FT-991 cannot be used with a HRI-200 to be a wires-x node, nor was it ever designed to be a node.

It is only a client, and good one for C4FM on 10 meters simplex.

That is NOT correct about the FT-991a and an HRI-200.
The FT-991a has the 6 pin data connector on the back of the radio. The HRI-200 comes with a 6 pin to 10 pin cable AND the FT-991a CAN be used with the HRI-200.

Can it be used as a digital RF node? NO
Can it be used as an Analog RF node? YES

WiRES-X does NOT need to have digital radio to work on the system. This is why it is called WiRES-X as it is a continuation of the WiRES-II concept but the X means that it can cross modulate/cross communicate between analog and digital.

 

[ArtU]

That is NOT correct about the FT-991a and an HRI-200.
The FT-991a has the 6 pin data connector on the back of the radio. The HRI-200 comes with a 6 pin to 10 pin cable AND the FT-991a CAN be used with the HRI-200.

Can it be used as a digital RF node? NO
Can it be used as an Analog RF node? YES

WiRES-X does NOT need to have digital radio to work on the system. This is why it is called WiRES-X as it is a continuation of the WiRES-II concept but the X means that it can cross modulate/cross communicate between analog and digital.

That is incorrect, any 6 pin din to an HRI-200 is a analog node, not digital. You have to have a 10 pin din like the FTM-400 or FTM-100 to have a digital node. This is well known facts

 

[ArtU]

And today, no-one considers Wires-X a Analog mode ; that is a carry over and most rooms today will not allow analog nodes to connect to them due to the bad audio

 

[n9upc]

That is incorrect, any 6 pin din to an HRI-200 is a analog node, not digital. You have to have a 10 pin din like the FTM-400 or FTM-100 to have a digital node. This is well known facts

Please re-read my post reply in the middle:

Can it be used as a digital RF node? NO
Can it be used as an Analog RF node? YES

Many cross mode and FM only user rooms do exist. In monitoring the WiRES-X network and helping people daily with WiRES-X issues I can confirm this fact. In the WiRES-X training classes I have done and will be doing at Huntsville it has already been asked to cover this topic.

Many DO use the FT-991a and the HRI-200 to do HF WiRES-X making 6 and 10 meter links, in FM, for usage. Because it is not done by you or in a room you might use does not mean it is not possible or is not being done.

Signed,
John Kruk - N9UPC
National Sales Manager for Yaesu USA