Why do you cringe? Don't you have any faith in ham's ability to put on quality repeaters or fix problems?
As has been noted, many areas have used the same tone with great success. The only ones who haven't had great success have issues that using different tones only masks and doesn't solve. Those are the ones that should be making you cringe - the ones who 'have' to use different tones to hide their problems. I for one would rather have an issue I can hear, diagnose, and solve rather than solve a symptom and pretend it doesn't exist. Letting problems continue is what gives hams a bad reputation as second-rate site users. Joe M. Nate Duehr wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
