At 8/28/2007 23:08, you wrote: >On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > At 8/28/2007 16:01, you wrote: > >> Bob Dengler wrote: > >> > >>> One concept that really helps in this area is CTCSS tone frequency > >>> standardization, IOW tones by region. All you then need to know > >>> is the > >>> freq. being used in the area you're traveling to. Many areas are > >>> already > >>> well established: 110.9 in Rochester NY, 107.2 in Niagara Falls & > >>> San > >>> Diego, 131.8 in Santa Barbara, 127.3 in Springfield MA. Even if > >>> you don't > >>> know what tone is in use, all you have to do is find the tone of one > >>> system. After that you can find the others by kerchunking (with > >>> ID of > >>> course!) all the other pairs with that tone. > >>> > >>> Bob NO6B > >> > >> It seems to me that if you have all the repeaters in an area > >> running the > >> same CTCSS tone, and start fighting a mixing problem... everything is > >> going to be back to keying everything else in short order. > > > > This gets us back to the "CTCSS-bandaid" issue. If your ham TXs > > are IMDing > > with each other & landing back on your inputs, you need to fix it. > > > > The only IMD problems I've had linger on my systems were caused by > > non-amateur TXs. If amateur TXs were involved, we found the actual > > source > > of the problem & fixed it. > >Ahh, but the reality is... all hams operating repeaters aren't >created equal. > >If you "push" that all repeaters in an area run the same tone, and >then some doofus comes along and his lashed up mess of a couple of >mobiles and a mobile duplexer hooked up with RG-8X and it starts >opening itself... he's just as likely to blame it on "that big club >repeater on the other leg of the tower" than on his own ineptitude.
So? If he's uncoordinated, he can blame whoever he wants. >If you're on a completely different CTCSS tone than Barney Fife >there, he has no case and he'll go hunting elsewhere, without any >bullets. I don't see why I should make my repeater harder to find simply to cater to such lids. Bob NO6B
