I know many hams who are still using radios that don't support CTCSS ENCODE, let alone decode or CDCSS. Again, I said 'most radios', not all radios. Yes, many recent models do include CDCSS.
Joe M. [email protected] wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
