You're right there are systems which do allow the temporary deactivation of the tone but given that
radios today have encoding as a standard function I'd think this is no longer necessary.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 14:57
Subject: Re: PL Required for Repeater Coordination
Don't repeaters that have tones always use them anyways? I don't really see
much reason to disable them if systems already use them. I know a local one
used to have a code for doing such, which I used a few times on my old rig
when the PL would get messed up and I didn't have assistance to change it. I
heard some systems only use it at night for some reason. I've known of a
couple repeaters that had different courtesy beeps at night, not sure what
the point of changing at night does to the repeater besides a different
beep.
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