DARC Digital Net

Facts to help understand the system:

• The Repeater uses FM Simplex or Yaesu C4FM digital protocols.  C4FM is the Yaesu digital mode.  YSF is Yaesu's 'Yaesu System Fusion' which allows a C4FM radio to connect to Wires X and the internet.  Confusion can occur as the Pi-Star hotspot also uses a YSF mode, which is not supported by Yaesu and was written by Amateur Radio enthusiasts to bridge the C4FM to other digital modes such as DMR, D-Star, etc.

• A Reflector is a digital mode 'talk room' that can be accessed via a Hotspot or via a bridged Repeater.

• The GB3AG Repeater is both analogue and digital.  It will receive and send in both simplex FM and digital Yaesu C4FM.  FM signals have priority over digital signals.

• The Repeater is linked to the GB3AG Reflector so any digital transmission on the Repeater will be heard on the Reflector and vice versa.

• If you are near enough to the Repeater and have a C4FM radio, you only need to enable digital mode to connect to the Repeater.  Wires X only needs to be enabled if you are wanting to change the Reflector that the Repeater is currently connected to.

• If you are not close enough to the Repeater or do not have a C4FM digital radio you can connect to the Reflector via your own Hotspot using your digital radio.  This will allow users with DMR, D-Star, etc., to 'cross mode' onto the YSF C4FM system and connect to the GB GB3AG Reflector, which they select via their Hotspot.  Therefore they will also be heard on the Repeater.