WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

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

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

WARG CTSS info is here:

http://warg.org.au/wordpress/?page_id=8

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

No CTCSS needed for RAA, RAL or RAW.

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.

robbage 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.

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 yet

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.