Thanks for the help Jim. I've already done as you instructed but I was wanting to find a way to program the PL because another town's PD is coming through too. I was wondering if there is a way to block unwanted signals.

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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming PL into UV-5R To: "Discussion of CHIRP" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Date: Friday, December 6, 2013, 7:54 AM

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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Thanks again for all the help Jim. I've been around scanners for about 25 years but the UV-5R is pretty different. I'll let you know if it works ok.

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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming PL into UV-5R To: "Discussion of CHIRP" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Date: Friday, December 6, 2013, 11:06 AM

No problem. The first thing that you should do it to click "View" in the menu bar and enable "Hide Unused Fields" if it isn't already.

RX only:

Tone Mode: Cross DTCS Rx Code: 465 DTCS Pol: NN

Cross Mode: ->DTCS

RX and TX (you don't need the TX code to listen but it doesn't hurt to have it set):

Tone Mode: DTCS

DTCS Code: 465 DTCS Pol: NN

You might be interested in looking at the "CHIRP Guide" on the Miklor.com website and the "Understand CHIRP's columns" guide available from the CHIRP wiki pages.

http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MemoryEditorColumns

Jim KC9HI

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:46 AM, scott richardson elmrich120966@yahoo.com wrote:

Thanks for the help Jim. I've already done as you instructed but I was wanting to find a way to program the PL because another town's PD is coming through too. I was wondering if there is a way to block unwanted signals.

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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:20 PM, scott richardson elmrich120966@yahoo.comwrote:

Your solution worked like a charm. I have one more question. Is programming a PL the same as programming a DPL?

Not exactly the same, but similar. PL uses the Tone and ToneSql columns to set the transmit and receive CTCSS tone selections. DPL uses the DTCS Code and DTCS Rx Code columns to set the transmit and receive DCS code selections. They both use the Tone Mode column (and sometimes Cross Mode column) do determine which of the columns are actually used (just because a column has a default value in it does not mean that value is being used). That is why it is a good idea for new CHIRP users to enable "Hide Unused Fields" as I mentioned earlier.

Jim KC9HI

Jim KC9HI

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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