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John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:27:15 -0500
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I can hear the hum alright, I always have been able to, my favorite PL to
hear is the 203.5  I don't know why,  if the signal is strong enough I can
hear it.
John Miller N1UMJ
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----- Original Message -----
From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: DCS list


> Well, I found the frequency from searching, and one day when on a bus with
> this old system I heard coms from the scanner, and then nothing from the
> bus radio until the general call was put out.  About the only times they
> would do a general call is early in the morning or late in the afternoon
> as a curticy greeting, or of something important happened that all the
> drivers needed to know about.  I could tell it was  a PL  because of the
> hum, which while we are in a thread of DCS and PL uses, how many of you
> can asctually hear a PL?  I know this may sound a little crazy, but if you
> listen really carefully you can hear a hum that will be faint for obvious
> reasons, but since getting my HT and playing with PL freqs and DCS I've
> noticed that different frequencies will have different pitch hums.  DCS is
> a bit of a challenge because it is more of a challenge.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Brett Winchester wrote:
>
> > Jeffery,
> >
> > did the bus in question have its DCS turned off  or were you listening
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> > the scanner?  If the latter there should have been a code for all busses
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> > would think too.
> >
> >
> >
> > thank you!
> >
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