Having Two HRI-200s at Same QTH
Having Two HRI-200s at Same QTH K2AS July 12, 2025 I have had a Wires-X Node at my QTH since November 2015. I use it to provide Wires-X access for our 2 meter repeater. It uses an HRI-200 (the only way at the time), a FTM-100DR, and a Windows PC for the software. The FTM-100 runs medium power, as I am 39 miles from the repeater site. I have had the Yaesu cooling fan installed for probably at least 6 years. A 7 element yagi in my garage rafters helps. In May 2024, I stood up an XLX reflector using a cloud server. I also added a transcoding server on a Raspberry-Pi . I bridged the XLX module B to Wires-X at my shack, with a MMDVM hotspot and a FTM-400DR PDN node. It all worked, but there was about a 4 second delay for the XLX traffic to finally get to the repeater. Based on info from K9EQ, I understood that PDN nodes use TCP protocol and has to go through a Yaesu server in Japan. I thought maybe this was a big part of the delay in my sy...