That is an interesting way of doing things.  I noticed something about
repeaters acooss the lake from me in Michigan in Canada that very few if
any use PL tones.  Is this the case in other areas.  For some repeaters
you try to get into this is good, and for others it can be difficult if
you are trying to bring up a distant repeater with a tone and you bring up
the on e without.





On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, John Miller wrote:

> I know of a local repeater that only uses the PL at night because in the day
> time the band usually isn't as open as at night usually so people don't
> bring it up bringing up other repeaters as much, others including that one
> in the summer time, shut it off for nets but run it the rest of the time. As
> for the beep change, No clue but I know some owners that like to play,
> others around here they do that for sky warn nets and events, they change
> the tone so people know it's the skywarn tone so not to use the repeater
> with out checking first to see what's up.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: PL Required for Repeater Coordination
>
>
> > Don't repeaters that have tones always use them anyways? I don't really
> > see
> > much reason to disable them if systems already use them. I know a local
> > one
> > used to have a code for doing such, which I used a few times on my old rig
> > when the PL would get messed up and I didn't have assistance to change it.
> > I
> > heard some systems only use it at night for some reason. I've known of a
> > couple repeaters that had different courtesy beeps at night, not sure what
> > the point of changing at night does to the repeater besides a different
> > beep.
> >
>