<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>One thing I've found RX PL for is on both the police and fire</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>frequencies, the very loud and obnoxious repeater ID is not</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>transmitted with tone. So if you are kind of dozing off and all <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span>of a sudden you hear this dit dah dit dit dit dah dah dti dit</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>at about 100 decibels, listening with PL or DCS decode is</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>a must. Also like me with a high gain antenna 20 feet above the roof</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I get other municipalities on one fire frequency. I don't want to hear</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>fire dispatch 50 miles away. especially when it's a big city and dispatch</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>is very active. So our FD for the county is on a unique tone and <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>listening using PL decode is also a must. One more reason is <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>even in amateur bands when the conditions are right we get</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>several VE repeaters. We then can turn on decode and the repeater</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>operator will turn encode on the output. So just to plain listen, no <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>you don't need to use PL. But on shared frequencies or repeater ID</span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>that you don't want to hear or the VE DX, you have to use it. <br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 6, 2013 7:54 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] Programming PL
into UV-5R<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv2975634854"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra"><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:23 AM, scott richardson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:elmrich120966@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:elmrich120966@yahoo.com">elmrich120966@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv2975634854gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey guys. I need a little help getting a PL into a frequency. Here is the frequency I want to do this on.<br clear="none">
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Frequency- 154.78500<br clear="none">
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Type-RM<br clear="none">
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Tone-465 DPL<br clear="none">
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All my information came from Radiorefence.com . I'm not interested in transmitting just receiving. Any help would be appreciated.<br clear="none"></blockquote></div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">Hi Scott,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">
Here is the minimum that you have to do<div class="yiv2975634854yqt7540047464" id="yiv2975634854yqtfd98263"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra"><div class="yiv2975634854yqt7540047464" id="yiv2975634854yqtfd61450">Frequency: 154.785</div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">Duplex: off<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">That's it. You never have to set PL (CTCSS) or DPL (DTCS) just to listen.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">Optional things would be<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">Mode: NFM {UV-5R doesn't change any receiver settings for narrow/wide}<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">Skip: "S" to skip the channel when scanning<br clear="none">
</div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2975634854gmail_extra">Jim KC9HI<div class="yiv2975634854yqt7540047464" id="yiv2975634854yqtfd00372"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt7540047464" id="yqtfd41664">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">chirp_users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>