Hi Jefferey.

You don't have to set your radio for tone decode--tone encode is all you
need to access the repeater.  If using PL decode is causing you to miss
things because the tone is taking too long to lock, just set your radio for
encode only, and that should fix the problem.

73, de Lou K2LKK

At 09:59 PM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone, I have a couple of questions here about the traffic nets.  Is
>there anything special i need to know in order to pass traffic at all?  I
>have checked in on a few nets here but haven't passed any traffic.
>         Also, I've noticed that with some repeaters you have a disconnect
>tone and it mutes out your radio too soon and you sometimes have to press
>the mon on the THF6A  SIs there anything I can do to hear the repeater
>because you can miss like repeater announcements that automatically go
>out.  Any information on either of these topics would be appreciated, and
>thanks in advance.

Louis (Kim) Kline, A.R.S.  K2LKK
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