<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Ken G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kdubya@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">kdubya@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div></div></div></blockquote><div>Ken,<br>Just scan for both. I don't know about where you are located, but looking at <a href="http://radioreference.com">radioreference.com</a> for my area, the use of the older CTCSS is still more likely to be used than DCS. There are also fewer CTCSS tones to scan than DCS codes. So I would start by scanning CTCSS. If the odds are in your favor and it is found to be CTCSS, you won't have to scan DCS at all.<br>
<br>Also remember that if you are trying to find the tone/code to access a repeater, you have to listen/scan the frequency that the repeater users transmit on to determine the tone/code. In this case I would do the scanning in VFO/frequency mode listening to the frequency I would normally transmit on.<br>
<br>Jim KC9HI<br><br><br></div></div>