I think that DCS is just another form of  PL.  There are people who use
DCS, but as far as radio use is concerned they just use it in the place of
PL.  If there were no hams or repeaters that use DCS at some point why
would this be included on the THF6A, and other radios?





On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Brett Winchester wrote:

> My limited reading of the manuals that have had DCS is that this is a type =
> of selective calling system allowing you to direct communications to only =
> one or a group of radios while other radios on the same channel remain =
> quiet.    Useful but  anti-community I wonder as the nature of ham radio =
> was first evolved to be. =20
>
> I so see applications for ecom groups etc so they can monitor a busy =
> channel while not having to listen to all the chatter on the channel.
>
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> thank you!
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