Hey everyone, please help! I am fairly new to the programming of public safety radios and I am building out a (basically) statewide interoperable unit. The radio being used is a Kenwood NX-5700H. I am gathering frequencies and info on all the ridiculous amounts of frequencies going into this radio and stumbled upon something that I do not know what to do with and my dealer really doesn't either. When looking at a few of the frequencies on radio reference they have the description but after the description it states " (input 94.8)" but the PL tone listed in the tone column is 225.7PL. For your reference this frequency can be found at this link starting at the "North Branch" subcategory Texas A and M Forest Service (Texas) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference . The question I have is would this be the DQT encode or DQT decode? Thank you in advance!
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Kenwood NX-5700H Input tone?
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Two things...
1. That means the receive tone is different than the transmit tone.
2. You really shouldn't be using a hobby site for the source of you programming information.
Different input tones are used to access different sites because of location. Repeater output tones are going to be the same so everyone can hear regardless of which site they can hear from their location.
Neither. The mobile receive (decode) is 225.7 Hz CTCSS and the mobile's transmit (encode) is 94.8, 151.4, or 210.7 Hz CTCSS, depending on which site the user wants to access.
I thought we didn't publish input tones, as they don't have much legit purpose for scanner users?
Thank you, I'm not sure if they were suppose to be there but they were on the provided database on RR.
mmckenna
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The CTCSS tones you listed would go in the QT fields. DQT is for DCS (digitally coded squelch).
And I'll second what @KevinC said above. If you work for a legit public safety agency, you should not be sourcing your radio programming info off a hobby radio webpage. The correct way to do this is through your statewide interoperability coordinator as well as getting correct information direct from each agency.
The FCC also requires that you have permission from the licensee before adding their channels to your radios.
Thank you for the info and I don't disagree about sourcing from RR. However, since the same information was provided to me by the licensee, the info retrieved here was accurate and really only used for the title post. I have the list and all approvals that I need, just a dealer who claimed they didn't understand the information.
All boxes have been checked as far as approvals and info.
mmckenna
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OK, good deal.
If it was me I'd be looking for another dealer.
That’s exactly what I did!
