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Anthony Vece <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:36:51 -0400
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No.

But if you find the pl tone you download it into your computer and you'll
know then what pl you have.

I mean one of these methods are totally usable however, sometime it best to
work with what you have.

Anthony


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: KENWOOD TH-F6A!!!


> I also don't think that method will universally work with all
> rigs.  Tim Hendel had a Yaesu and I forget the model, that he
> says works pretty well at setting P.L.'s.  He gets into the P.L.
> menu and then scrolls through the P.L. tones keying the repeater
> each time until it comes up.  He then knows which P.L. is the
> correct one.  I wish more rigs would allow that because in many
> cases if you hit the press to talk button that gets you out of
> the menu.  Also, the P.L. finder feature is nice to have but
> first of all the repeater has to be active for it to work and
> secondly even if it finds the correct P.L. tone we can't read it
> off the screen so it is of little value in terms of later
> programming the correct tone into a memory.
>
> Harvey

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