its about time the new 'ham' radios support encode and decode CTCSS (pl) I hate to have to buy and extra board to support encode
I would like to run our repeater in PL mode but a lot of our users have older radios with out encode the fun debate about CTCSS and CDCSS Thanks to the group for a good read ! On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, MCH <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] <no6b%40no6b.com> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
