I run a receive tone here because every time the band opens up, we have
repeaters in other states that keep the receiver open for hours on end and I
don't want to hear other repeaters, in fact on one repeater I monitor, we
can hear a repeater in CT regardless if the band is open or not. I only
monitor the repeaters for clubs I belong to and really am against the
practice of making 5 repeaters useless on a frequency so you can get in to
one far away when there's a band opening,that's where simplex is good enough
but I don't like VHF anyway which is where we have that problem, that's one
of the reasons why. There are many people around here who do that regularly.
I consider that maliciously interfering with the repeaters that people can't
use because of someone doing that. I love tone squelch, receive tone,
whatever you want to call it for that reason. I can only hear what I want to
hear. Some people love it, some are against it, I set it everywhere I can in
all my radios.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: TS480/SAT in FM operation
> most newer dual band type ham rigs will do split tone as well.
> They do split tone in commercial applications to create multiple user
> groups
> on one repeater pair.
> Personally, I never ever use RX tone for allot of reasons.
> Unfortunately, some newer hams don't fully understand the concept and
> stick
> rx tones in their radios...then can't figure out why they can't hear
> anything when the tone is wrong, or when the tone board on the repeater
> goes
> dead.
> Or, with some repeaters, there is only an input tone, and the repeater
> doesn't transmit a tone, but when some of these guys program their radios,
> they put a tone on both tx and rx and then can't hear the repeater.
> Anyway, leaving the rx tone off is always a good idea.
> The only time it's useful is if you are in a very noisy RF environment
> where
> you get allot of interference or noise on your receiver...the rx tone will
> block most of that and allow you to listen in piece most of the time.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: TS480/SAT in FM operation
>
>
>> PL and CTCSS is exactly the same thing, what you're talking about is
>> something else but that doesn't make sense at all. If you need a split
>> tone,
>> in other words different from receive to transmit, set the transmit tone
>> and
>> leave receive tone off, you'd be out of luck and that would be crazy
>> since
>> only commercial radios do that as far as I know though I did trick a ham
>> radio to do it once. Anyway, as long as the tone is the same for in and
>> out,
>> when you turn on tone squelch, so you need a tone to receive the
>> repeater,
>> it will transmit that same tone when you transmit so you have the tone
>> set
>> for receive and transmit that way.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Ray" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: TS480/SAT in FM operation
>>
>>
>>> PL tones are the tones going into the repeater. CTCSS are those
>>> transmitted
>>> by it. That is the best explanation I can come up with that makes sense
>>> to
>>> me.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Lou Kolb
>>> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 2:32 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: TS480/SAT in FM operation
>>>
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> I thought they were the same. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you
>>> mean
>>> by
>>> ctcss and Pl tones, but I thought both those terms refered to a tone
>>> that's
>>> transmitted continuously as long as the transmitter is up to hold the
>>> squelch open on the receiving end. I'm sure someone will correct me if
>>> I'm
>>> wrong. 73, Lou Lou Kolb Voice-over Artist:
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bob Ray" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:11 PM
>>> Subject: TS480/SAT in FM operation
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anyone that has experience with the 480 on fm repeaters may be able to
>>>> help with this. We have just added tones to our local repeater. The
>>>> 480 manual, if I am reading it right, doesn't allow you to have a pl
>>>> tone and a CTCSS tone at the same time. Does anyone have a work
>>>> around for this?
>>>>
>>>> Bob kd0br
>>>
>
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