On 20/02/2017 16:26, Rob wrote:
Brian Reay wrote:
Fusion is a failure. Yaesu has failed to provide usable firmware for
the first repeater, and "to fix that" they have released new hardware,
essentially leaving those that bought the original kit in the cold.

We have some Fusion boxes but it seems like madness for Yaesu to go for
another system.

Sure, but what really nailed is is their failure to implement it.
The repeater firmware and associated network application sucks, updates
have been promised for a long time and every time they were postponed,
and finally a new repeater appeared to solve the problem.
Most people here feel that they were lured into buying a cheap repeater,
understanding that Yaesu did this to promote sales of mobiles and portables,
and not knowing that they only did this to dump unusable hardware before
releasing a new type.

I wasn't aware of that, I confess to not following the progress of
Fusion, or lack of it, in detail.


As a result, people are now ripping out the controller hardware and
converting them to plain voice repeaters using a working controller.


If you mean analogue, I've not heard of that here.

Usually analogue, but I have seen a tweet about multimode use as
well (MMDVM).

https://twitter.com/KC2VRJ



Interesting.



73
Brian