PL Tones

[koleary]

Can someone tell me how to enter this Tone into my Pro96. I have enter other ones like 123.0 etc but this one is little different and don't know How to input into scanner. Here are a couple of examples

d-311 (tried entering 311 and it does nto work, it defaults to a lower number_

d-132

Thanks for any help.

 

[Admin0140434]

1. enter frequency

2. press mode until letters in upper right read CT or DC (CT for pl, DC for dpl)

3. press func, then mode... display now reads "set code ENT accepts CL to exit"

4. press up or down arrows keys to desired tone, press ent

 

[koleary]

Thanks for the reply. I will try it out when I get home today.

 

[Voyager]

Can someone tell me how to enter this Tone into my Pro96. I have enter other ones like 123.0 etc but this one is little different and don't know How to input into scanner. Here are a couple of examples

d-311 (tried entering 311 and it does nto work, it defaults to a lower number_

d-132

Thanks for any help.

Change the mode to DC for CDCSS (which is what those codes are).

Joe M.

 

[John_M]

One way to enter a DCS tone is to turn on the scanner and manually set the scanner on the channel the frequency you want to monitor is in. Put the channel in DC mode and wait for a transmission. If a DC tone is present the scanner will display the tone and all you have to do is press enter and the DCS tone is saved for that channel.
Another way is to use Win96 software. To enter a DC tone just enter the tone into the the CT/DC section of the channel. The program automatically converts the DCS tone entered into a cooresponding CTCSS
tone frequency. That is the correct frequency for that DCS tone. Don't let this conversion throw you off like you entered something wrong. This threw me off at first also.

 

[Voyager]

One way to enter a DCS tone is to turn on the scanner and manually set the scanner on the channel the frequency you want to monitor is in. Put the channel in DC mode and wait for a transmission. If a DC tone is present the scanner will display the tone and all you have to do is press enter and the DCS tone is saved for that channel.

It does that whenever the code is programmed as '0' (the default). You can even be scanning and it will work - same with the enter key, too.

Joe M.

 

[loumaag]

Another way is to use Win96 software. To enter a DC tone just enter the tone into the the CT/DC section of the channel. The program automatically converts the DCS tone entered into a cooresponding CTCSS tone frequency. That is the correct frequency for that DCS tone. Don't let this conversion throw you off like you entered something wrong. This threw me off at first also.

I think that you are still confused. CT/DC are for CTCSS and DCS. If you are enterting DC codes in while the channel is set for CT then you are not doing it correctly. Enter DC codes when the channel is set for DC and enter CT tones when the channel is set for CT. Doing it the way you describe here is undefined.

To the original poster; you can follow the instructions that Admin0140434 provided earlier but at step 4 you can just type in the code and hit enter.