At 1/17/2009 15:54, you wrote: >There is a second caveat to turning down the deviation& since a lot of >transmitters encode either digital or tone squelch injected without >components (pots) allowing adjustment of the level, the transmitter will >be sending those at +\- 600-800 Hz before narrowbanding. That equates to >approximately 15% of the available modulation. When you narrowband, the >transmitter will still be cranking out tone or digital signals that will >now be at about 30% modulation. Obviously this is gonna have a horrible >effect on transmitted audio quality.
The G.E. radios all have adjustable CTCSS level, so turning that down isn't a problem. Bob NO6B
