Help with first contact

[Phil]

Boy, I had some fun with 'CTCSS' (PL?) squelch when I started out. I was accessing the repeater down in the South-West of England whilst on holiday, had set up CTCSS on my Yaesu VX-7R as directed, and kept getting complaints about excessive 50 Hz mains hum on my rig! I kept telling them, "But I'm using a handheld with batteries!"

It was a while before one helpful ham thought to ask if I was a newbie who was dumb enough to be using the CTCSS tone around 100 Hz? I said I was, and have since discovered that every UK repeater offers CTCSS operation, but nobody uses it if they can avoid it! (Another thing the RSGB licence manual never told me.)

It's a bit like the driving test. Driving lessons and the test qualify you to get a licence, after which you are qualified to start to learn how to drive.

Phil M1GWZ




On 28 Jan 2013, at 20:18, Louis Mamakos wrote:

> Just curious, why wouldn't any repeater with PL tone required to open the receiver also just transmit the same PL tone?  It would presumably avoid this particular issue, as well as giving users the option of using a PL tone squelch while using the repeater?  Even if the receiver didn't pass it though, the transmitter could just always insert it into the transmitted audio.
> 
> louie
> wa3ymh
> 
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> On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Iain McFadyen <ki4hlv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Laurie,
>> 
>> Congratulation on the new License!!
>> 
>> As some of the others have already mentioned, you may have set your HTX-202 to both transmit PL tone and also be set up to need PL tone on the received signal to open the squelch.
>> 
>> For the HTX-202, you must set up the transmit PL tone, and the receive PL tone separately.
>> 
>> As you have probably found out, hit SC and adjust the transmit PL to 107.2, then hit SC again and set the receive PL to NONE.
>> 
>> This will mean that you hear the output of the repeater, regardless whether the repeater output actually has a PL tone encoded on it or passed through it.
>> 
>> I tried raising the .315 repeater from my home, but it is shielded from me, and is just breaking squelch and so is very noisy, so I cannot analyse the repeater output to find if there is PL encoded on it.
>> 
>> Our club still meets weekly at around midday on Saturdays for a social lunchtime gathering at Tippys Taco House on Lee Highway. Bring your HTX along, and we can check it out at the table, and confirm whether it is set up properly.
>> 
>> Iain KI4HLV
>> 
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>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I've been really busy this last year and haven't had the chance to check in.  I've tried to send my first contact on.  the 147.315 Mhz repeater with PL 107.2 this evening at around 7:40pm.  I used an input of 147.915 Mhz + PL 107.2.  I waited for a few minutes but did not get a response.  I'm using a Motorola HTX 202 and programmed the memory with the repeater output frequency and PL and set it to T-SQL.  When I do so, the repeater output frequency cut out. Does anyone have any experience with this radio? Any help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Laurie (KB3YYN)
>> 
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