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I am trying to program my radio and I have a question. I'm a volunteer FF and my chief gave me a frequency list so I could program them into my Kenwood TM-271A (with the mod)

There is a "rxpl" and a "txpl" listed for some channels on the list. Some are listed as CS (carrier squelch) which I understand to mean no tone. What I am trying to figure out is should I program these as a CTCSS or as a simple tone. I dont' know enough about it to know the difference. I also can't seem to program the tone to be specific to rx or tx...I can't seem to set 2 tones

Example:
Ch1 - Fire Zone 1, Tx-158.775, Rx - 155.985, RxPL - 118.8, TxPL - 127.3

If I didn't explain this well enough, please let me know and I'll try to explain it better.

Thanks
Chris

Most likely because that radio wasnt meant for the application you are trying to use it!

NCSHP311 wrote:Most likely because that radio wasnt meant for the application you are trying to use it!

Well at least I wasn't the first to post it.. I refrained.

I don't know much about Ham Radios but you may not be able to set up a separate tone for TX and RX. CTCSS and PL are the same. CTCSS means Continous Tone Coded Squelch Setting, and is just a fancy way of talking about a PL tone. For example, in most cases "CTCSS 1" is PL 67.0 Hz.

O.T. - Not Motorola AND violation of FCC rules.

Were done here...