I agree with you about the north east US. My base and mobile equipment all
has CTCSS active, I don't have much choice. Especially night time in the
spring and summer. I don't need repeaters in there just breaking squelch
constantly, or holding up my scanning of the local ones. I'm not much of a
UHF/VHF person due to a lot of things going on recently but I monitor
repeaters with the clubs I belong to so people know where to find me if by
some strange chance they might actually want to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Kenwood TS-2000
> the ctcss/tone/dts setting is the same as the mic gain and rf
> power....there is a beep at each end of the range and if you can count
> clicks, you have it.
> You can also program ctcss tones with the free kenwood software, and that
> is
> a bit more convenient.
> You also have separate buttons to turn tx tone and rx tone on or off
> individually as you wish....the tx tone is a bit anoying because there is
> no
> high or low beep indicating weather the tone is active or not...with the
> rx
> tone it is obvious because it mutes the squelch when it is active.
> I suppose if your trying to get into a tone controled repeater, you either
> get in or you don't and that is a good indicator of if the tone is active
> or
> not hi hi.
> For me, i never use ctcss tones simply because the ts2000 has excellent
> intermod rejection, and, because i live in an area where i don't get more
> then one repeater in range on a particular frequency at one time.
> I can see how ctcss might be a good thing to have if you live in an area
> like the north eastern US where you can get multiple repeaters within
> range
> on the same frequency.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Kenwood TS-2000
>
>
>> Hi all,
>> Many thanks for your replies and the synthesizer sounds good form my=
>> opinion.
>> How is it with setting the CTCS tone? How accessible is that?
>> Many thanks,
>> Christian SM0UWV
>>
>>
>> On 2008-05-27 at 19:23 Steve Forst wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Christian,
>> >
>> >As you can see, a number of people on this list have the TS-2000. It's
>> >not
>> >the latest and greatest, but is a fine rig. I've had mine almost 7
>> >years
>> >and get a lot of use and fun out of it.
>> >
>> >I just recorded a 15 second .wav file of the voice synth reading some of
>> >the
>> >menus. Not a studio quality recording, just did it on the fly, but
>> >I'd
>> >be
>> >happy to send it to you direct as an attachment, if you like.
>> >
>> >73, Steve KW3A
>>
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