On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Milton Hywatt mhywattt@yahoo.com wrote:

Evidently I've lost my marbles, not that I had many to lose in the first place. The issue is decoding tone. Just want to open squelch only when tone is present and properly decoded. Two public safety agencies. Standard PL toning used. Now.. when setting up Chirp I can only get just DEC to appear on the display if I set the Tone Mode to Cross then the Cross Mode to --> Tone. Only reason to decode tone, eliminates the repeater Morse code ID which is not transmitted with a tone encoded. So is this all correctly done? Before I had it set to TSQL and Tone - Tone but it wasn't eliminating the repeater ID. So I set out for an alternative setting. I have it set up similar on a Wouxun HT and when it receives a signal it can't decode the green activity ligh illuminates but there is no audio. So far I haven't heard any ID which is usually every 15 minutes or less.

There is a CHIRP guide on the miklor.com website and one here as well.

First, some are confused by the unused fields containing default values. If you fall into that category, I recommend that "Hide Unused Fields" in the "View" drop-down menu be enabled. That being said, here is how you can setup RX CTCSS.

For RX using CTCSS and TX using CTCSS with the same tone...

Tone Mode: TSQL Tone: N/A ToneSql: {required CTCSS tone} Cross Mode: N/A

For RX using CTCSS and TX with no CTCSS (or DCS)...

Tone Mode: Cross Tone: N/A ToneSql: {required CTCSS tone} Cross Mode: ->Tone

Jim KC9HI