It's my understanding that many repeaters can be programed with a separate input and output tones.
So if a repeater was programmed with, for example, DCS 053 to access the repeater, and a CTCSS tone of 151.4 on the output, and you scanned the repeater while in use with tone capture, which code would show up?
Does the tone stay in the radio signal as long as it is being transmitted? If you only had an input tone, would you see it on the output?
When I travel, I often run the scanner to find active repeaters, read the tone, and then put those into the 2 meter rig. Is that tone that I see on the scanner because those repeaters have an output signal, or is that just the input tone repeated?
Thanks for anyone's willingness to help.
Delta
So if a repeater was programmed with, for example, DCS 053 to access the repeater, and a CTCSS tone of 151.4 on the output, and you scanned the repeater while in use with tone capture, which code would show up?
Does the tone stay in the radio signal as long as it is being transmitted? If you only had an input tone, would you see it on the output?
When I travel, I often run the scanner to find active repeaters, read the tone, and then put those into the 2 meter rig. Is that tone that I see on the scanner because those repeaters have an output signal, or is that just the input tone repeated?
Thanks for anyone's willingness to help.
Delta