<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Forrest <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wfj@usa.com" target="_blank">wfj@usa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Curious why you say that using tone squelch on both TX and RX is not recommended???<br>
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THX.<br>
Forrest<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Forrest,</div><div><br></div><div>This is more directed to new users that don't know what tone squelch is or how it works. What happens is that they program both a TX tone and an RX tone for a repeater that does not transmit one and then ask "The green receive light lights up but I can't hear anything. Why doesn't it work?" Programming no RX tone always works. Programming an RX tone when the other station doesn't transmit one, or transmits a different tone than the one programmed, never works (unless your goal is to never hear that station:).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Once it understand how tone squelch works, why it would be needed in a particular application and it is known that the remote station is transmitting the matching tone, it is certainly encouraged to use both.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim KC9HI</div></div></div></div>