On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:06 AM, WA3GIN wrote: > Does having numerous repeaters PL'd with the same tone freq. > increase the probability of the normally generated intermod/mixed > signal to now carry within the produced signal a correct PL tone > that may land on the input freq. of another local repeater? Is it > considered a bad practice to utilize the same PL for numerous > repeaters in the same band all located within a few miles of each > other?
Bad engineering design, yes. But the fact that it's commonly done, is also true. Not sure why. When "area plans" show something like "repeaters in this area all use CTCSS tone X" I always cringe a little. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected] http://facebook.com/denverpilot http://twitter.com/denverpilot
