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PROGRAMING MOTOROLA MTS2000 UHF

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HI THERE:
I AM PROGRAMMING A UHF MOTOROLA MTS2000 HANDIE TALKIE AND ONE REPEATER CHANNEL USES A DPL 246 TONE,
THEN I CLICK TO SELECT IT IN THE LIST OF THE DPL TONES THERE IS NO 246 DPL TONE.
I TRIED TO DELETE THE VALE IN THE DPL BOX AND WRITE IT MANUALLY BUT IT STAYS BLUE AND DON'T ERASE.
IN ANOTHER FORUMS SOMEONE SAYS THE INVERTED TONE FOR THE 246N IS THE 523 INVERTED, BUT IT DOESN,T HAVE THE 523 NEITHER.
DOES ANYBODY KNOWS ANY TWEAK OR HOW TO DO IT ????
HELP IS APPRECIATED
 

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KevinC

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Motorola radios typically only allow the original “standard” DPL codes as those are the ones they rigorously tested to minimize false decodes.
 
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Some old Motorolas did allow for non standard PL codes. This is from my Bearcom rose bowl tech report.

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FRI 12.31.04 - 0800 - 1830

Arrived at LA office to get equipment boxes, found non standard PLs had been used for repeater
freqs on 2 channels and duplicate PLs on 2 freqs only 75 kHz apart.

All but one repeaters were GR-300s, those will not do 12.5kHz channel spacing.
 

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DO NOT ASK ME FOR HELP PROGRAMMING YOUR RADIO. NO.
I wish I hadn't lost the notes I made on this. I once took the time to use the service monitor and a radio and programmed up every possible DPL code and checked every one of them for every other DPL code it might alias to. This gave me the ability to look at the chart I made and tell you what standard DPL code and what non-standard DPL code would work with each other.

There were some that have as many as four aliases, and others, none.

Stop shouting. Find the caps lock key and press it once to turn caps lock OFF.
 

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I wish I hadn't lost the notes I made on this. I once took the time to use the service monitor and a radio and programmed up every possible DPL code and checked every one of them for every other DPL code it might alias to. This gave me the ability to look at the chart I made and tell you what standard DPL code and what non-standard DPL code would work with each other.

There were some that have as many as four aliases, and others, none.

Stop shouting. Find the caps lock key and press it once to turn caps lock OFF.
These aren't your notes (...unless they...are?) , but this is from the wayback of blenderman's site (which is now held by a .ru). Lotsa good DPL/DCS loving in here.

To the OP, you will see the 246 codes are in all red - if you read why...you'll see what that means.
 
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Back in my early Bearcom days ESPN had Kenwoods that did not have some of the same "standard" tones Motorola did, I had to avoid that one since we used both in the repeater system.

Nice chart, always assumed there was just one EIA standard.
 
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