At 9/4/2007 12:40 PM, you wrote: >Al, > >Has nothing to do with pride, just sound sense that we don't need >tone. Tone has its uses, but not a solve all problems approach. > >In my case solves no problem and in fact does create one...vacationers >have trouble finding the tone freq. Most directories are not always up to >date and to have a computer on vacation to look it up is not what many can >or want to do.
True, but if a particular area standardizes on one CTCSS tone frequency, the directory becomes insignificant as the repeaters once again become just as easy to find as carrier-access systems - just without all the open squelch blowing from the distant weak signals on the input from that band opening. Bob NO6B
