TONE CODED SQUELCH
Yaesu FT-8900R Operating Manual Expanded Edition (courtesy of W5JCK)
Page 30 of 77
Two things must be remembered in this regard:
You must be sure that your repeater uses the same tone type (
CTCSS
or
DCS
).
Some repeaters do not pass the
CTCSS
tone; you may have to listen to the station(s)
transmitting on the repeater uplink (input) frequency in order to allow
Tone Search
Scanning
to work.
To scan for the tone in use:
1.
Set the radio up for either
CTCSS Tone System
(see page 27) or
DCS Tone System
(see
page 28) operation. In the case of
CTCSS
,
will appear on the display; in the
case of
DCS
,
will appear on the display.
2.
Press the
SET key
momentarily to enter the
Set
mode.
3.
Rotate the
DIAL
knob to select
Menu #39
TONE F
when
CTCSS
is selected, or
Menu #10
DCS.COD
during
DCS
operation.
4.
Press the
DIAL
knob to enable adjustment of the selected
Menu
Item.
5.
Press the
Main
band
key momentarily to start scanning for the incoming
CTCSS
or
DCS
tone/code.
6.
When the radio detects the correct tone or code, it will halt on that tone/code, and
audio will be allowed to pass. Press the
DIAL
knob momentarily to lock in that
tone/code, then press and hold in the
DIAL
knob for ½ second to save the new
setting and exit to normal operation.
0.
(1) If the
Tone Scan
feature does not detect a tone or code, it will continue
to scan indefinitely. When this happens, it may be that the other station is
not sending any tone. You can press the
Main
band
key to halt the
scan at any time.
(2)
Tone Search Scanning
works either in the
VFO
or
Memory
modes.
DCS Code Inversion
The
DCS
system was first introduced in the commercial
LMR
(
Land Mobile Radio
) service,
where it is now in widespread use.
DCS
is sometime referred to by its different proprietary
names, such as
DPL
® (
Digital Private Line
®, a registered trademark of Motorola, Inc.).
DCS
uses a codeword consisting of a 23-bit frame, transmitted (subaudible) at a data rate of
134.4 bps (bit/sec). Occasionally, signal inversion can result in the complement of a code to
be sent or received. This prevents the receiver squelch from opening with
DCS
enabled, as the
decoded bit sequence would not match that selected for the operation.