One thing I've found RX PL for is on both the police and fire frequencies, the very loud and obnoxious repeater ID is not transmitted with tone. So if you are kind of dozing off and all
of a sudden you hear this dit dah dit dit dit dah dah dti dit at about 100 decibels, listening with PL or DCS decode is a must. Also like me with a high gain antenna 20 feet above the roof I get other municipalities on one fire frequency. I don't want to hear fire dispatch 50 miles away. especially when it's a big city and dispatch is very active. So our FD for the county is on a unique tone and
listening using PL decode is also a must. One more reason is
even in amateur bands when the conditions are right we get several VE repeaters. We then can turn on decode and the repeater operator will turn encode on the output. So just to plain listen, no
you don't need to use PL. But on shared frequencies or repeater ID that you don't want to hear or the VE DX, you have to use it.
________________________________ From: Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming PL into UV-5R
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:23 AM, scott richardson elmrich120966@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey guys. I need a little help getting a PL into a frequency. Here is the frequency I want to do this on.
Frequency- 154.78500
Type-RM
Tone-465 DPL
All my information came from Radiorefence.com . I'm not interested in transmitting just receiving. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Scott,
Here is the minimum that you have to do
Frequency: 154.785
Duplex: off
That's it. You never have to set PL (CTCSS) or DPL (DTCS) just to listen.
Optional things would be
Mode: NFM {UV-5R doesn't change any receiver settings for narrow/wide}
Skip: "S" to skip the channel when scanning
Jim KC9HI
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