[chirp_users] Tuning step roadblock

[Don]

> It does 2 single tones, one after the other. Like 459.3 and 829.6 Also 
> it will do the group call using a 3rd long tone.
>
> This group call with a long tone of 1050 works great on the weather 
> channels. That way you can leave the radio on at night, and still get 
> alerted if the weather service issues an advisory. Note, when you are 
> on the weather channel, it will not receive anything else.
>
> I don't think it does DTMF decode.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 12/8/2013 7:11 PM, Milton Hywatt wrote:
>> Does the TYT do 2 Tone or 2 Tone DTMF? Our FD
>> does 2 tone but only two single tone frequencies.
>> I imagine that most fire paging consists of a combination
>> of single tones at different frequencies. I remember when
>> I was a volunteer fireman that I only had a pager. And it
>> received the two single tone multi frequency tones depending upon
>> what station was signaling. I guess you would call this STMF toning.
>> I'm pretty sure my Anytone AT-5888UV when doing 2 or 5 tone signaling
>> uses DTMF tones for both encode and decode. And that's not going to
>> work unless the public service entity also used DTMF signaling.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Don <kb5kwv at qsl.net>
>> *To:* Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, December 8, 2013 7:57 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [chirp_users] Tuning step roadblock
>>
>> The only Chinese talkie that I know does 2 tone decode like the fire 
>> department page, is the
>> TYT model TH-UVF1 like this one.
>> http://www.kightradio.com/TH-UVF1-Dual-Band-VHFUHF-Handheld_p_78.html
>>
>> I don't have any thing in this web site, other then I have bought 
>> several radios from here.
>>
>> Don
>> KB5KWV
>>
>> *
>> *
>> On 12/8/2013 2:33 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:05 PM, ddubois <woody2 at questiongravity.com 
>>> <mailto:woody2 at questiongravity.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Thanks Jim, that did the trick. I did figure out what "tuning
>>>     step" meant around 3am, but didn't want to write back and admit
>>>     that I was still up and obsessing over it :) I'm glad I went to bed.
>>>
>>>     I have all my channels configured now, except for the "page"
>>>     channel on the Icom that I wish to emulate in the Baofeng. In
>>>     the Icom, the channel is muted until it receives a 2-tone page
>>>     signal. I can see how it is set up in the Icom CS-F14 program,
>>>     but I'm not finding any functionality like that in CHIRP. When I
>>>     click on "Settings" in CHIRP, I only get a blank field. Can I do
>>>     this in CHIRP? I see nothing in the wiki about functions like this.
>>>
>>>     And, perhaps similarly, in CS-F14 under Common>Set Mode there is
>>>     a squelch value variable that has been set to 125. Is that
>>>     something I need to set in the UV-B5?
>>>
>>>     Thanks much! Doug
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug,
>>>
>>> CHIRP will program a great number of brands and models of radios. 
>>> Each type or radio (or family of radios) needs a specific driver 
>>> that matches up to that radio's capabilities. CHIRP cannot make a 
>>> radio do something that is isn't capable of doing. In this case, the 
>>> UV-B5 (or any of the Chinese radios that I am familiar with) are not 
>>> capable of decoding a 2-tone page signal. So you won't see that 
>>> functionality for the UV-B5 in CHIRP.
>>>
>>> You will only be able to use a CTCSS tone or a DTCS code for 
>>> selective squelch operations. But be careful setting up a receive 
>>> tone or code. If you don't know how to do it properly, your settings 
>>> could wind up programming a channel that will never hear anything. 
>>> Having no Rx CTCSS tone or Rx DTCS code always work (but you may 
>>> hear other station on the channel that you may not want to).
>>>
>>> Jim KC9HI
>>>
>>>
>>>
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