WIRES-X
Yaesu have a digital voice capability built into many of their radios. To support this capability Yaesu also created the Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System or Wires X which links repeaters, gateways or nodes via the internet. This allows a QSO with a person on the other side of world via a local repeater using digital voice technology. The Yaesu digital radio using a technology called C4FM. Wires-X nodes can also house rooms. A user connects to a node or room and can interact with others who are connected to the same node or room. The user interface that supports this technology is designed to be as simple as possible.
The Yaesu HRI-200 system allows people to access Wires X from a radio using a Windowws PC. The radio connected directly becomes a local gateway, accessible from another Wires X/C4FM radio.
It is also possible, using a special cable to connect a one of a number of Yaesu CF4M capable radios to a PC running the Wires X software. The radio acts as the sound interface in this case.
I currently have 1 Wires X room
MB6EA-Room #87555 on Wires X – the equipment supporting this room is being re-tasked as a Wires-X gateway, call sign MB6EA, frequency 434.4750, GM00;00
YSF
Yaesu System Fusion or YSF also uses C4FM and has many of the features of Wires-X but it is external to the Yaesu Wires-X network. The YSF network is based on hotspots or servers that run the appropriate software to provide YSF reflectors( similar to rooms). I have an old linux machine that supports the YSF reflector that I run GB-M0JOW and a pi-star based hotspot to allow my handheld DMR or C4FM radios to connect to other users on YSF.
The Yaesu HRI-200 system allows people to access Wires X from a radio using a Windowws PC. The radio connected directly becomes a local gateway, accessible from another Wires X/C4FM radio.
Note: the intention is to expand these descriptions and add some graphics at some stage