AIE (automated Industrial electronics) used to make a pl/dpl counter box. It would count all tones and the number of hits on each. There may be some floating around yet. I may even have one stuffed in the closet yet, not sure.
73 Gary K4FMX > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:Repeater- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Morris WA6ILQ > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] DCS decoder software? > > At 01:23 PM 05/31/07, you wrote: > >Does anyone know of a software program that will take discriminator > >audio and display the DCS (or, optionally, CTCSS) being used? If not, > >can someone point me to the technical specification for DCS? (I know > >it's approximately 131 baud, sub-audible, occupying 2-300 Hz, but > >that's all I could find...) Maybe I can get my son to write such a > >program.... > > > >George > > Order Moto manual 68-81106E83 if it's still available... its a > no-charge technical overview of DPL published back in the days > when DPL was brand new.. See the Moto page > at www.repeater-builder.com for Moto's order 800 number. > > The DCS decode function is common in many scanners. It may be > more cost effective to acquire the most inexpensive scanner that > has that feature... > > A real handy box that I've not seen and I wish someone would sell is > something that you could feed discriminator audio to and display > the currently heard DTMF string, DPL or tone PL. > An enhancement to the DPL / tone PL display function would be a > storage feature so I could park it and a receiver (i.e. a 18ah gell cell, > a Maxtrac or a scanner, an antenna and this box) on a hilltop and a > week later it would tell me what tones/codes are in use on a > particular channel. > > Mike WA6ILQ > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
