DCS is in almost everything now, my TH-F6, IC-T90A will both do it, the
tm-g707A won't, but no one uses that around here anyway so it doesn't matter
to me right now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John J. Jacques" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: PL Required for Repeater Coordination


> Hi Butch, you forgot G E and there infamous  Channel Guard!  GRIN!  DCS
> is digital coded squelch, but I have never seen the feature on anything
> other than Yaesu radios.  Personally, I wish more radio's would offer
> DTMF paging.  It is handy when you want to monitor a frequency for calls,
> but don't want to listen to other traffic.  You can set the decoder for
> 32, for example, which is FA, and anyone can call you as long as they
> have a touch tone pad.  My Yaesu FT470 only has PL encode and decode.  By
> the way, for Bob, the correct name is CTCSS, which means Continuous Tone
> Coded Squelch Systejm.  See why we call it PL?  GRIN!  By the way, if you
> have unlimited calling, you  can give me a call at:
> 480-671-7912
>
> Or, send me a private message at:
> [log in to unmask]
> and I will be happy to call you some time and try to bring you up-to-date
> on all of the neat things going on since you were a novice.  I, along
> with many of us on the list got my original call in 71, when I was a
> senior in high school, but I was n SWL from the early 60's.  I had every
> A M broadcast band radio in the house de-tuned, so they would copy the A
> M boys on 160 meters in the Detroit area.  GRIN!
>
> 73:
> John.
>
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