On August 15, 2018, John Kruk N9UPC—National Sales Manager, Yaesu USA—presented An Overview of Yaesu System Fusion II, a Yaseu Education System (YES Network) webinar.

This hour long webinar covered a variety of System Fusion, Wires-X, and IMRS topics including an explanation of [the difference between System Fusion and System Fusion II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9VVkx0ANas 18:54t=1134s).

Questions specific to firmware, software, or future features were not answered during the webinar.

Webinar Topics

• What is Fusion (starts at 5:41)
• Layers of Fusion (starts at 8:43)
• Setup and Usage (starts at 17:21)
• What is Fusion II? (starts at 18:54)
• Understanding DG-ID (starts at 19:54)
• Understanding DP-ID (starts at 25:24)
• Wires-X Networking (starts at 32:47)
  • Suggested Labeling (starts at 37:02)
  • Wires-X Description (starts at 39:04)
  • Wires-X Rooms (starts at 40:11)
  • Rooms are Centralized and De-centralized (Room Connection quality is dependent on the rooms connection quality) (starts at 42:32)
  • Wires-X networking examples (starts at 46:18)
• IMRS Networking (starts at 47:42)
  • IMRS Examples (starts at 49:49)
  • IMRS & Wires-X working together examples (starts at 53:58)
• Q&A (starts at 57:12)

Related Presentations

• System Fusion Forum Hamvention 2018: Advancing Digital Voice Technologies
• Y.E.S. Network - Episode 201807 - Product Education Series: AOR AR-DV10 SDR Handheld Receiver

Resources

• WIRES-X HRI-200 Instruction Manual
• HRI-200 Product Page
• WIRES-X - Ham Operator Activities and Information

There is now another digital repeater available in the Fargo-Moorhead metro area: the KD0IOE DMR/YSF repeater at 444.625+ CC1. This repeater is an MMDVM based system that currently has DMR and YSF enabled, with both timeslots available. It is located at my West Fargo home, linked to the Internet and available for public use.

A technical description of the repeater, along with DMR timeslot and Brandmeister information is available on the KD0IOE Repeater page.

Please contact me at if you have any specific questions about my setup.

These websites are a good source for general information about Brandmeister and DMR:

• DMR for Dummies
• Brandmeister

About MMDVM

The MMDVM is intended to be an open-source Multi-Mode Digital Voice Modem, which utilities the power of an ARM processor and a simple analogue interface board. The Multi-Mode Digital Voice Modem is a combined hardware and software development of a modem to handle all amateur digital voice modes ¹

This video by 2E0XVX demonstrates an MMDVM Multi Mode Digital Hotspot in operation: