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Performance gain when turning off CTCSS/DCS?
Battery life
Very unlikely.
Latency
Also unlikely, because most tone decoders don't operate in a way that adds latency to begin with, they're purely "backwards-looking". They take a few ...
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Programming receive tone on Kenwood V71A
The tone values for Tone mode and CTCSS mode are stored separately in the TM-V71A. If you set the value when you set up for tone and then change into CTCSS mode, you'll be back at the default 88.5.
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BF-888 radios don't work with UV-5Rs on the same frequency
You might try changing the Tone Mode from TSQL to just Tone.
TSQL mode does two things:
sends a tone on transmit
requires a tone on receive to break your radio's squelch
Tone mode only does one ...
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Private Channel?
This topic came up in a discussion on a Facebook ham page.
I had my own thoughts on legally narrowing the available listeners when setting up my mobile to cross-band repeat so as to catch it with my ...
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