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Good Morning, I'm new to this kind of radio and software. I am trying to program my radio and I am wondering what ctcss/dcs enc and ctcss/dcs dec is. I'm used to PL and DPL. I put my frequency in and I key up on my Motorola and all I get is a green led as it sees the frequency but I don't hear anything. All the help would be greatly appreciated

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PL is Motorola's proprietary term for CTCSS. DPL is the same for DCS.

Dec sets a CTCSS/DCS that must be detected for the radio to open squelch. NONE is carrier squelch.

Enc sets a CTCSS/DCS to be transmitted. It should match the Dec setting, unless using a repeater that has different input and output settings.
 

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Thank you for the fast reply... What is the difference between D664N and D664I in the CTCSS/DCS settings?
 

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Good Morning, I'm new to this kind of radio and software. I am trying to program my radio and I am wondering what ctcss/dcs enc and ctcss/dcs dec is. I'm used to PL and DPL. I put my frequency in and I key up on my Motorola and all I get is a green led as it sees the frequency but I don't hear anything. All the help would be greatly appreciated



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CTCSS=PL DCS=DPL


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Thank you for the fast reply... What is the difference between D664N and D664I in the CTCSS/DCS settings?

Normal DCS signal polarity vs. inverted polarity. They are not interchangeable.
 

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Thank you for the fast reply... What is the difference between D664N and D664I in the CTCSS/DCS settings?



D664I is the inverted code to D664N

DCS/DPL is a repeating string of 1's and 0's, in some equipment the data string can be inverted(1's become 0's and vice versa) causing the receiver to not decode.

There is lots of info if you google search DPL or DCS that will explain how DCS works.


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