<div>Some radios do allow for a different pl for TX than RX, and in that case, set the RX pl tone to 100 and the TX pl tone to anything but 100hz.</div>
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<div>Wes<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Bruninga</b> <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">>>> How do we call CQ locally on APRS?<br>>><br>>>Voice Alert. Each of packet contains a 100 HZ tone which will
<br>>>be heard [by] all surrounding APRS also running Voice Alert.<br>><br>> I never quite got this. In order for this to work,<br>> I'd need to run PL squelch, right? So how, then,<br>> would my APRS station be able to hear, say, the
<br>> local digi or WX station that *isn't* transmitting<br>> a PL of 100?<br><br>The D7 and D700 take their TNC data from the radio receiver in<br>front of the CTCSS tone squelch. The CTCSS tone squelch only<br>
silences the speaker in the D7 and D700. This is why we can get<br>dual use from the 144.39 APRS channel for both APRS data<br>(without PL) and for the occasional human-to-human voice call<br>with PL 100.<br><br>Running Voice Alert in the mobile, is like adding another free
<br>radio channel in the APRS mobile. This hidden-back-channel is<br>for being able to make a voice call to such an operator on a<br>guaranteed known voice calling channel that you know he is<br>monitoring... Because you hear his (and only his) packet when he
<br>is in SIMPLEX range (about 1 to 3 miles)...<br><br>It works!<br><br>But the WORST killer of this function is HOME stations or 24/7<br>parked cars that still TX their Voice Alert PL100 packets<br>*without* an operator present. This is very frustrating since
<br>other voice alert mobiles that might be passing by, hear these<br>"CQ's" yet no one is listening in response.<br><br>So remember, Voice Alert is a MOBILE-to-mobile system only.<br>Home stations that TX it continuously can kill the golden goose
<br>due to QRM. People willturn their APRS channel volume down and<br>forget about it, and then they also do not hear voice calls to<br>them.<br><br>Of course you CAN monitor with CTCSS 100 from home for passing<br>simplex mobiles BUT ONLY IF YOU DO NOT TX PL100 24/7. Problem
<br>is that most radios cannot independently set their RX CTCSS<br>without also automatically enabling their TX PL... This is why<br>we simply ask home stations to never TX with voice alert<br>enabled.<br><br>Bob<br><br>
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