At 3/4/2009 22:26, you wrote: >You forgot one factor... most ham rigs don't have CDCSS abilities, and >like it or not those ARE the rigs of choice for people looking for codes >for repeaters since they are easy to reprogram.
Perhaps this is region dependent. Most radios made for the past several years can encode DPL, & most hams I know around here use fairly recent equipment. In fact I feel like a throwback sometimes, sticking with my older equipment - I sometimes get comments about my "ancient" Alinco G5T. Yet I have radios in the car & here in the shack that will do DPL. I think the main reason DPL is only used on one or two systems here (out of nearly a thousand) is because it's considered not worth the trouble given that most can encode it, & would inconvenience those who still use older equipment that can't make it. There's also an issue with several radio models not implementing DPL properly: when encoding they also force decode of the same DPL code, making the feature useless on any repeater than doesn't regenerate the same DPL code. Of those one or two systems here that use DPL, none regenerate. Bob NO6B
