SPEN1 - To PL or not to PL?

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BIODTL1997

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That has nothing to do with squelch tail.


" In continuous tone coded squelch systems as used in land mobile communications, for example, provision is made for eliminating the squelch tail by the use of the selective calling circuitry. In one type of continuous tone coded squelch system commonly used, the communicating transmitter sends a subaudible tone of one phase while transmitting a message and the same tone but of reverse phase for 150 milliseconds after the message; The receiver which includes a tone sensitive device such as a resonant reed, for example, in'response to the tone transmitted with themessage causes unsquelching of the receiver. The receiver therefore only receives when its particular tone. is transmitted and received. The reversed phase tone following the message damps the reed and results in the squelching of the receiver. This damping and resquelching of the receiver occurs rapidly and provides for the elimination of the squelch tail which would otherwise occur if only noise squelch were employed. For a further discussion of this type of system see Peth U.S.' Pat. No. 2,974,221. In other systems, the squelch tail elimination is-accom-' plished by. merely continuing carrier transmission for 150 milliseconds after the message without any reverse phase tone "
 

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While we are on the subject of SPEN, is anyone aware of any trunked system, UHF or 7/800 that simulcasts or patches to SPEN for users that do not have VHF-capable radios?
 

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Allendale, NJ had a SP]EN1 patch on 467.8500 a few years ago don't know if they still have it now. I think Mahwah had them too
While we are on the subject of SPEN, is anyone aware of any trunked system, UHF or 7/800 that simulcasts or patches to SPEN for users that do not have VHF-capable radios?
 

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Mercer County has their own emergency alert frequency 453.225 PL 103.5 all departments are on it. Depending on the alert they have been known to simultaneously rebroadcast on SPEN 1 but don't rebroadcast all SPEN alerts.

I know of none that rebroadcast SPEN 1 on any TRS talk group or UHF repeater. At least in the clear anyway.
 

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Middlesex County P25 700 MHz TRS currently has a SPEN patch (TG 33) and it's on all of the time. AS far as using a PL or not with a two way radio, when I worked for the NJ State Park Service (NJ DEP), their radios were programmed with a PL tone on transmit, and CSQ for receive.
 
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