Ok, I have a pair of Motorola TT5509 Talkabout Radios. I'm in Australia, so they are 40ch UHF CB here not FRS/GMRS whatever.
I cannot figure out how to disable all the useless tone squelch/interference eliminator or whatever else its called on these. I'm trying to work through a local repeater (yes we have open repeaters on UHF CB in Australia) and of course the radio can't hear my mobile radio through the repeater, apparently because it's not sending a tone to lift the squelch in the Talkabout. The radio has (apparently) 10 tones yet the book also mentions 38 'interference eliminator' tones and a QT filter which seems to be a tone squelch. I can't seem to find out how to turn ALL the darn things off. They are utterly useless no one here uses them. Even hams don't have access tones on repeaters on 2m or 70cm. Can anyone tell me the magic buttons to press to disable the darn tone squelch on receive please? The manual seems overly simplified and seems to assume you want it there all the time.
Cheers
Geoff in South Oz
I cannot figure out how to disable all the useless tone squelch/interference eliminator or whatever else its called on these. I'm trying to work through a local repeater (yes we have open repeaters on UHF CB in Australia) and of course the radio can't hear my mobile radio through the repeater, apparently because it's not sending a tone to lift the squelch in the Talkabout. The radio has (apparently) 10 tones yet the book also mentions 38 'interference eliminator' tones and a QT filter which seems to be a tone squelch. I can't seem to find out how to turn ALL the darn things off. They are utterly useless no one here uses them. Even hams don't have access tones on repeaters on 2m or 70cm. Can anyone tell me the magic buttons to press to disable the darn tone squelch on receive please? The manual seems overly simplified and seems to assume you want it there all the time.
Cheers
Geoff in South Oz