Well, I do know Europe uses a lot of 5-tone equipment, but the fact that you had a lot of it was missing from your original post, so don't be surprised that your replies were skewed based on that missing fact.
I'm not 100% positive, but I THINK you will find that there are two 5-tone formats - that used by pagers (older ones) and that used by the European radios. They may be different and the controllers that support 5-tone only support the US version. That isn't to say that you could not use a controller that has a programmable tone generator to make the format you need. I can't speak for others, but MY reply was based on an equipment availability issue, and not a "not invented here" attitude. As I said, had you pointed out that you had a lot of european equipment, my response would have been different, and included the info above. But, I'm not psychic, nor is anyone else on this list (that I'm aware of). Thank you, and a belated Merry Christmas to you an all, Joe M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bradly Glen, > > Thanks for the only positive response I received about 5 tone. Seems like > anything new here meets with a "not invented here" attitude. > > We do not use a lot of 5 tone radios here in the US, but recently there have > been a lot of European radios being dumped on the market. I purchased one (a > Christmas present from me to me) to see what all this 5 tone (5TVO) stuff was > all about. There seems to be little information on the web. A search brought > lots of hits but most were ads for radios. A few hits hinted at the > possibilities and explained how the tones worked. Aside from that, I have yet > to find an > in depth explanation of 5 tone. I do understand that there are several > different standards (CCIR, EEA, etc) > > I have had a TK809T for about a week now and I am still trying to figure out > how this function operates in the programming software. The software help > files list a lot of functions but do not give an in-depth explanation of how > to > put the commands together to do something useful. > > My original thought was that maybe we could use it for paging our Red Cross > and ARES groups since individual and group calls are available. The added > functions such as stun and kill would be useful at times but of course > everyone > would have to adopt the standard and that seems not to be the case at the > present > time. I also understand you can do auto answerback and other neat functions. > > I appreciate you response to my question and I will keep experimenting to > find out how 5 tone works in this radio. > > Thanks, Art - KC7GF 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/
