[chirp_users] Settings to match Motorola PL tones

[W Paul Mills]

On 06/08/2016 10:13 AM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:58 AM, W Paul Mills <AC0HY at wpmills.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sounds like your tone frequencies do not match. Perhaps the Motorola is
>> not really on 67 Hz.
> 
> I would be more suspicious of the Baofeng being off frequency. I have
> heard reports that Baofengs will not work with the DTMF decoders on
> some repeaters due to transmitting off-frequency DTMF tones. It would
> not surprise me if the CTCSS/PL tone was also off. Motorolas tend to
> have very good CTCSS decoders (meaning they'll reject off-frequency
> tones), so you're likely to see a problem like this surface more when
> using a Motorola than a Baofeng receiver.
> 
> Tom KD7LXL

I have never had this problem with any I have seen. And I have seen dozens.


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