Yah, jom pi Hamfair Perak. I'll be there at the APRS & Digital booth. Come by and have a chat about digital mode.

Your location please.

My USJ friend is overseas until next week, otherwise can get his and his father signature in one go. If you are willing to travel up to Sri Gombak, there are few 9M2s having tea every night at Awwal Maju Sri Gombak, PM me for contact number.

I'm staying in Sg Buloh. Still need another ham to sign the recommendation

If you have a yaesu fusion digital radio, you could try 9M2RKL. It is linked to wiresx network and you can join any available rooms.

To be able to access worldwide room, you need a yaesu fusion dgital radio. You will be able to talk to ham in US or Europe. Boefeng cant do.

Yes, as aminpro said, Yaesu Fusion is not HF, it is a hybrid analog/digital system. You can work the 9M2RKL either on FM or C4FM (digital). If you've ever monitor 9M2RKL, you do sometime hear a white noise coming from the repeater. The white noise is actually not QRM but someone on C4FM (digital) having conversation either locally or linked/internationally linked.

With additional Wires-X system, you can have the repeater to be connected to the world-wide Wires-X system and have a conversation with other people on other repeaters across the globle. Just like what you can do with echolink. You can control the node system using menu driven selection (echolink can be controlled using DTMF).

There are two such repeaters here in Klang Valley and both are from MARTS. 9M2RUK is a VHF repeater located at Genting and 9M2RKL is on UHF and located at Bukit Lanjan. 9M2RKL is connected 24/7 in digital mode to Wires-X network. However 9M2RUK is not currently connected to Wires-X but hopefully we can have it soon, probably an analog mode.

As per the radio pricing, we hope Yaesu could introduce a much lower priced Fusion transceiver. As far as I know, there is only one VHF mobile Fusion rig which priced under 1K. A dual band FTM100DR cost around RM1500. Upcoming FT70DR probably cost less.

And there will be more ... We're going to introduce DMR too! But time will tell when we'll have it up and running. This DMR repeaters will be connected to the DMR network worldwide too.

They haven't post your AA? Have they updated their online db? I haven't got my gateway AA which I renewed last year. They're using a third party to print the AA and post it out. I guess you can go to their Cyberjaya's office and ask them to print it there and then.

Ah, heard about it too. The system migration. I guess they're done with the migration now.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Jul 7 2017, 08:27 AM

Yes we should. Any interesting topics to discuss?

This post has been edited by wiraone: Aug 8 2017, 08:34 PM

What is your budget? Then we could probably give you better answer

Why not start with something up to date? Like Yaesu Fusion transeivers, probably you'll appreciate it better that Boefeng

Yeah, this is useful tool in helping me with my igate/fill up digiptr setup last time. Rarely use it now. Hehe.

May I know your location please Within Klang Valley, we've two Yaesu Fusion repeaters (can work both digital and analog), one is UHF repeater located at Bukit Lanjan and another one is VHF repeater up at Genting. For now, the UHF repeater at Bukit Lanjan is connected to a Wires-X system which allows you to communicate with anyone in the world that are connected to the same Wires-X system. There are two repeaters in Melaka that are Fusion too, located at Melaka Town and the UHF repeater is currently connected to Wires-X too.

There are other digital standard used in amateur radio world, other than Yaesu Fusion (C4FM), there is ICOM D-STAR (you need a D-STAR capable radio made by ICOM or Kenwood) and another which is gaining popularity is the DMR (open standard, you can buy Motorola Mototrbo, Hytera or TYT DMR radios and they usually cost a bomb and mostly available only for UHF). Currently there is not DSTAR nor DMR repeaters available in Klang Valley.

Back to Yaesu Fusion, Yaesu has come up with few digital radios, for the handy talkie (HT), the newest which just come to the market is the FT-70DR, this I believe will have a price tag around RM800. The next in the HT family is FT-2DR and this one has many features and cost quite a bit (RM1800++). Both of the HTs are dual-band, which means they can work on both UHF and VHF. For mobile radio, there are VHF single band Fusion radio, FTM-3200DR (RM700++), next in the line is FTM-100DR (RM1500++) it is a dual-band radio with APRS/GPS but only has single monitoring (work one frequency at a time). The top of the line is the FTM-400DR, with a color screen display, it is a dual band radio, with APRS/GPS and can receive on two different frequencies at once. Cost should be around RM3000++.

Yaesu sells non digital radios too, price and features vary accordingly. My first ever radio is FT-60R and I still have it right now, own it for 10 years now and running good. This will be the basic dual-band HT I'll suggest or probably the FT-65R if they've stop selling the FT-60R. I bought my FT-60R for around RM600.

Which part of Borneo are you in? My friends in ARCS (Sarawak) are going to bring up Yaesu Fusion repeaters and get them linked across the major towns. If you're in KK, there is a plan that I heard to get Yaesu Fusion up too.

Hi judes,

In your case, since you usually going to Semporna or Sipadan, I believe there is no nearest repeater to that area. I do not know much about repeaters in Sabah but what I know there are few in Gunung Kinabalu. Probably it is too far away to Semporna. HT for sure won't help much if you're going to bring the radio with you on your diving trip. With 5W (usually that the max power for HT), you can go quite far if the repeater is in your line-of-sight, can reach up to 20-30KM or even more. With the help of base or mobile antenna, it will even go further.

However, if you're out at the sea, I don't really have any experience on this. Your HT probably won't be much useful other than to use for contacting your buddies nearby. Probably going for HF will help you, for now, class B could go to 40m on 50W max. That signal will go far away or with antenna setup, can be limited to the area you want.

You understood correctly, with an HT, without the help of repeater, you'll be only covering around 2-3KM radius depending on the surrounding. I do agree with you on the Fusion option after reading your situation, FT60R (if they still produce it, it is good), if not the newer FT65R will be a good replacement for FT60R.

http://store.onecommunications.com.my/prod...aesu-FT-65R/609 (the price as your guide, I don't own the store nor interest ).

VX Series has compact body compared to the FT. Yes, most VX series are dual bander (VHF/UHF).

Guess what, me in one of the photos

http://www.theborneopost.com/2017/08/20/ta...ith-illw-event/

Yup, dua2 manufacturers ni are trying hard to capture the DMR market. TYT just released the MD-2017 (HT) and MD-9600 (mobile) at more affordable price and both support Tier1 & Tier2 (repeater) operations. Only drawback I can see from DMR is programming the unit. The codeplug programming is complicated for normal ham and most of the radios couldn't be programmed on the fly.