Question Re: PL Tones

[ThomasMcKean]

Moving on from Wal-Mart post into something less controversial, I have a question about PL tones.

Do I understand this correctly:

If I scan with the PL tones set to OFF, I would hear ALL conversations regardless of PL tones, but would not be able to talk to them unless the proper PL tone is set? But if I set a PL tone, I will only hear others with the radio set to the same PL tone?

Is that right? That if the PL tone is off, yew hear everything, but if a PL tone is set, yew are filtered? I am still trying to figure out PL tones!

 

[wardaddy]

Yes you are right. However, there are radios that have an option to set a PL tone for TX but not RX, meaning that you can listen to every transmission and still talk to a group sharing a common PL.

 

[ThomasMcKean]

Yes you are right. However, there are radios that have an option to set a PL tone for TX but not RX, meaning that you can listen to every transmission and still talk to a group sharing a common PL.

Sweet. I have not seen this on any of the FRS or GMRS radios I have looked at? I have also noticed that when scanning, the radio does not give yew the proper PL tone to set to cut in. But I guess that is as it should be. It isn't any of your business to be talking to them anyway.

 

[gewecke]

I'm not aware of any bubble pak radios which allow separate pl encode and decode, but your commercial talkies will as will most ham talkies.
There might be some that do tho...

73,
n9zas

 

[wardaddy]

Yeah, I guess I should have made myself clear. Bubble-pack radios are probably not going to have such an option. I was speaking of commercial radios which may or may not be part 95 certified

 

[stmills]

I have a set of Motorola MR355r that allows different encode and decode tones.

 

[W2NJS]

Separate transmit and receive PLs for PS radio systems are becoming more and more common. Almost all portables made in the past several years have the capability to handle such setups. OTOH most ham portables, for whatever reason, do not. DPLs can be set up the same way, but in practice they're usually the same for transmit and receive.