That is to bad. I wish my RLC-3 had 5/6 tone encoding. I have to use 2 tone encoding made by macros. 5/6 tone systems are easier on the battery life of pagers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the only positive response I received about 5 tone. Seems like > > anything new here meets with a "not invented here" attitude. > > From a controller-builder's perspective: There are over 2,000 6K and 7K > controllers in the field that have had the ability to generate 5-tone pages > (complete with the preamble tone and "X" tone) for many years. I've never had a > customer ask about the feature and I'm not aware of anyone using it. If I were to > guess the reason, I'd say it's the lack of aftermarket decoders. Commercially, > the popularity of alphanumeric display pagers probably killed off the 5-tone > system. > > 73, > Bob, WA9FBO > S-COM, LLC > Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
