I'm on a bit of a mission to document the 2m/70cm repeaters in Perth and what they're capable of.
One of the things that I'm having trouble sourcing is which repeaters are enabled for CTCSS. I know for example that VK6RVP and VK6RUF both require a 123Hz tone before they will open up the squelch, but I believe that other repeaters are what you might call "CTCSS Optional" - i.e. they don't require a tone to be sent on the input, but the repeater itself will put out a tone on it's output.
That's handy for people like myself who have to transit the city and can get bombarded with pagers or LIPDs - we can set the radios to require tone on receive, but people talking into the repeater don't necessarily need a CTCSS-enabled radio themselves.
I wonder ... does anyone know for sure which repeaters do or don't have CTCSS - either as an option or as a requirement? I'm planning on doing it the hard way tonight and just listening on various repeaters both with and without tone and see if I can figure it out that way - but if someone has a list that could save me some work, that'd be even better
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Re: 2m/70cm repeaters and CTCSS
VK6RBY 2m, VK6RAP 2m, VK6RLM, VK6RTH 2m, VK6RFM, VK6RCT, VK6RSR, VK6RBU 2m I'm pretty sure all transmit a tone.
VK6RNA 70cm is tone both ways. I believe the Albany 70cm is no tone (on the same freq as RNA)
Dunno about any others. I found RFM tone doesn't work too well with any of my rigs so I don't know if the tone is the wrong freq, drifts, or four of my rigs all have the same fault on one repeater freq
VK6RNA 70cm is tone both ways. I believe the Albany 70cm is no tone (on the same freq as RNA)
Dunno about any others. I found RFM tone doesn't work too well with any of my rigs so I don't know if the tone is the wrong freq, drifts, or four of my rigs all have the same fault on one repeater freq
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Re: 2m/70cm repeaters and CTCSS
Thanks guys,
I knew of the WARG page - that was one of the first places I checked. However it doesn't mention repeaters like RAP having "optional tone" which is what I was looking for.
I'll keep plugging away
I knew of the WARG page - that was one of the first places I checked. However it doesn't mention repeaters like RAP having "optional tone" which is what I was looking for.
I'll keep plugging away
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Re: 2m/70cm repeaters and CTCSS
If you have access to the repeater, an audio connection from your radio to your PC and a program like WinTone, you can see if the repeater transmits a CTCSS tone.
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Re: 2m/70cm repeaters and CTCSS
I think I can also do that with my Icom handheld, it has a tone search function, not that I've ever tried to use it yetrobbage wrote:If you have access to the repeater, an audio connection from your radio to your PC and a program like WinTone, you can see if the repeater transmits a CTCSS tone.
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Yaesu FT-1802M 2m Ham TRX mobile x 2
Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile
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Re: 2m/70cm repeaters and CTCSS
Good time to try it out! I can't find anything more recent (and free) than WinTone, which hasn't been supported for donkey's.
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