Singletone on XTS3000?

RADIO43 · Post by **RADIO43** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:46 am

Group,

I have a UHF XTS3000 with Singletone option. Using the RAC buttons I have no problem TX'ing my singletone of 389.0 Hz. Can I set the radio up to be muted to all RX's on the channel but then open up if it recieves the 389.0 Hz for a certain amount of time? I know that it will do this for MDC but not sure for the Singletone option. Basically I want it to operate like the Quickcall option on MT2000, HT1000, etc does when recieving the proper tone. I have been experimenting with this for a while now and can not get it to work. Thanks in advance.

Kyle

Post by Pj » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:18 pm

I believe the singletone was only intended to open repeaters that required it on the astro series. Last time I looked, there is no decode option to the radio. Singletone will not work on simplex channels (you can program it, but the radio will not send it).

RADIO43 · Post by **RADIO43** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:27 pm

Pj,

Thanks for the response. I figured that was going to be answer. Thanks again.

Kyle

ExKa|iBuR · Post by **ExKa|iBuR** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:21 am

Pj wrote:I believe the singletone was only intended to open repeaters that required it on the astro series. Last time I looked, there is no decode option to the radio. Singletone will not work on simplex channels (you can program it, but the radio will not send it).

So I guess that alert tone I have on a simplex channel (singletone via a side button) is just a figment of my imagination?

-M

EKLB · Post by **EKLB** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:43 pm

ExKaliBur:

Do you intend to post the tracking number and ETA for the two Radius DTMF mikes you promised to send in the feed back forum under the title of ExKaliBur = No Way /Waste Of Time ?

Or are you jerking me around for the 4th time ?

EKLB

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:49 pm

Staying out of the jerking around messages above.....

I can confirm that I also have a XTS3000 that will do singletone on a simplex freq.

Jay

Fuel4300 · Post by **Fuel4300** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:05 pm

I was curious about this so I played around with singletone on my Astro Saber this evening and had no problem getting it to transmit the tone on simplex both automatically and via a side button.

Mike

CTAMontrose · Post by **CTAMontrose** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:39 pm

same on my XTS, although while it did TX it on 446.000, when i programmed it to a repeater, it would NOT transmit it while i was on direct, it reverted back to the repeater input, then when i pressed PTT i was back on direct.

keep in mind i had it programmed to RAB2 and not to transmit automatically with PTT.

Post by Pj » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:56 am

Yeah, I have only had it setup on a repeater pair. When transmitting with the tone, it would only on the repeater in. If I placed the radio in direct, the tone would not transmit.

If you think about it, singletone was developed for repeater access, so hence the above situation.

CTAMontrose · Post by **CTAMontrose** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:00 am

yea, i guess the radio isnt smart enough to figure out that when the same freq is in both TX and RX that it ISNT a repeater.. lol

ExKa|iBuR · Post by **ExKa|iBuR** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:11 am

Pj wrote:Yeah, I have only had it setup on a repeater pair. When transmitting with the tone, it would only on the repeater in. If I placed the radio in direct, the tone would not transmit.

If you think about it, singletone was developed for repeater access, so hence the above situation.

PJ;

I'm curious if maybe because you have it set for Direct, it won't work. I'm thinking that maybe the radio "knows" that when you're on direct, your obviously not going through a repeater, but when you program a simplex frequency into the radio, the radio doesn't "know" if it's a repeater or not. I'll have to give the direct thingie a try.

-M

ExKa|iBuR · Post by **ExKa|iBuR** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:07 am

Yup, just what I thought.

When you have a conventional personality programmed with the same TX and RX frequency (Simplex), singletone works. But, when you have it programmed with a Direct frequency, singletone only works when not on direct.

-M