Station identification Morse code annoying

[Rawkee1]

I haven't heard the station identification, that sounds like morse code, for quite a while on my BCD 996P2. We recently had a power falure and the station identification is back. I have the frequency entered in the scanner with the PL tone. My question is why did this start with the station identification again, and how do I get rid of it? Any cures or suggestions out there??

 

[PD47JD]

Try contacting the 'Station" (PD? FD? Commerical?) and ask them why they have resumed their morse code station identification. Me thinks it has something to do with an FCC regulatory requirement as in "station identification".

 

[Rawkee1]

I don't think it's that because I haven't heard the MC beeps until after the power came back on. That was 3 o'clock in the morning it started doing the beeps again. I haven't heard them for about a year. It's too coincidental after about four hours of no power to radio, the beeps start again every 30 minutes after the power returned.

 

[mastr]

Try contacting the 'Station" (PD? FD? Commerical?) and...

I got one of those calls once, the guy was insistent that I "do something about this". So I changed the ID interval to 10 minutes for the next 90 days. I figured that was long enough to encourage a lockout of that particular station.

My guess is that you have that frequency entered twice, once without CTCSS and that the power failure erased a temporary lockout made some time ago.

 

[902]

I got one of those calls once, the guy was insistent that I "do something about this". So I changed the ID interval to 10 minutes for the next 90 days. I figured that was long enough to encourage a lockout of that particular station.

I've had them, too. Amazing how things can switch from analog to P25 with just a button on the console.

 

[mmckenna]

I don't think it's that because I haven't heard the MC beeps until after the power came back on. That was 3 o'clock in the morning it started doing the beeps again. I haven't heard them for about a year. It's too coincidental after about four hours of no power to radio, the beeps start again every 30 minutes after the power returned.

It's common to set up the repeaters to send the Morse Code ID without a PL tone. That way radio users don't have to listen to it.
Sound like your scanner lost it's PL tone, or as someone else said, you have it programmed in with carrier squelch.

Don't contact the agency and ask them, they won't know. This is something that gets set up by the radio tech when the repeater is programmed.

 

[Rawkee1]

Thanks for all your help. Problem solved! I feel a bit bit foolish but I was sitting in the room and the MC beeps came on and I noticed it didn't come from the extended speaker from one of the scanners. It came from another scanner across the room. A Radio Shack Pro2067 that has the frequency without PL tone. When the power came on, it unlocked all the banks so I just had to lock the banks out again. Don't get old!!!

 

[W8KIC]

I have a little bit of a different take when it comes to the Morse code: I operate QRQ CW on the low bands (3-30 MHz) and those notes are music to my ears. I don’t use a reader but rather absorb the characters utilizing what’s left of the gray matter upstairs at 63 years of age. HOWEVER, if all I was listening to was a call sign fulfilling the ID requirement as set forth under the FCC rules and regulations, I’d probably have a short fuse myself, regardless of how fast the CW was being sent. Lol! It sounds like the solution as it relates to this particular issue is non-complex in nature and will likely please everyone in due course.

 

[Rawkee1]

Amen to that. Merry Christmas!

 

[PD47JD]

Thanks for all your help. Problem solved! I feel a bit bit foolish but I was sitting in the room and the MC beeps came on and I noticed it didn't come from the extended speaker from one of the scanners. It came from another scanner across the room. A Radio Shack Pro2067 that has the frequency without PL tone. When the power came on, it unlocked all the banks so I just had to lock the banks out again. Don't get old!!!

Oy.