Yaesu DR-2x Repeater
At Hamvention last year the new DR-2X was announced and on display in the Yaesu booth. The first thing that pops into my head is, “cool, an upgraded repeater that has a bunch of new features and works better than the DR-1x that we bought about a year ago.
However, the more I read about it, I realized it isn’t really an upgraded one it’s just a different one. Each of the two has something that the other one doesn’t. Which strikes me as crazy that a newer model doesn’t have all the same features as an older one does and then some.
So what the DR-1X have that the DR-2X doesn’t, you ask? Well it seems that you can’t use the WIRES-X directly on the repeater. I don’t really see this as much of a big deal, seeing that I’m sure someone will make a work around for it.
On the flip side of this though the DR-2X has a few features on it that I find really interesting.
DR-2X Brochure
http://www.everythinghamradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DR-2X_Brochure.pdf
http://www.everythinghamradio.com/2017/07/system-fusion-dr-2x-more/
At Hamvention last year the new DR-2X was announced and on display in the Yaesu booth. The first thing that pops into my head is, “cool, an upgraded repeater that has a bunch of new features and works better than the DR-1x that we bought about a year ago.
However, the more I read about it, I realized it isn’t really an upgraded one it’s just a different one. Each of the two has something that the other one doesn’t. Which strikes me as crazy that a newer model doesn’t have all the same features as an older one does and then some.
So what the DR-1X have that the DR-2X doesn’t, you ask? Well it seems that you can’t use the WIRES-X directly on the repeater. I don’t really see this as much of a big deal, seeing that I’m sure someone will make a work around for it.
On the flip side of this though the DR-2X has a few features on it that I find really interesting.
DR-2X Brochure
http://www.everythinghamradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DR-2X_Brochure.pdf
http://www.everythinghamradio.com/2017/07/system-fusion-dr-2x-more/
What do you mean that you cannot be used on Wires-X on a DR-2X Repeater? I have a 440 MHz DR-2X Repeater running in Wires-X mode and others are able to connect to my repeater.
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