Column 1 , CTCSS or DCS

Column 2, Tx Encoding
Column 3, Rx Decoding

In all my 30 years of PMR and amateur programming, I have only ever come across one system which did not use a different tone for Tx and Rx, let alone one which uses a combination of CTCSS / DCS for Tx and Rx.
DCS is frankly not very good, which is why it was not widely used in the commercial world. It is prone to false triggering. DCS polarity is merely a numerical compliment and again, negative values are never used in practice.

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 19:42, Tony Ling <tonyg7txu@gmail.com> wrote:

Your correct setting should be
Tone Mode = TSQL - this sets CTCSS encode and decode.
Tone = 131.8

To my mind, I find CHIRP's CTCSS/DCS configuration very clumsy.
It takes up file columns to describe a very simple concept which could easily be covered in three columns.

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 19:34, K0LNY ?? <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:

Hi,

My local repeater uses 131.8 for a PL tone.

I at one point had 88.5 in one place and 131.8 in the other.

So I changed both to 131.8, and it seems that it should still work, but it isn't keying the repeater.

I'm guessing the R in r-tone is for repeater, and the C in C-tone is CTCSS?

Anyway, which one of these is the repeater wanting to hear to open up?

Thanks.

Glenn

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A man with two clocks is never sure.
-- A derivative of Segal's law
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