[Elecraft] [K3] Scanning for repeater tones.

[Fred Jensen]

Ummm ... Montana is relatively sparsely populated compared to ... shall 
we say the San Francisco Bay area.  Repeater/remote transmit CTCSS is 
fairly common out here on the populated frontier.  I think it all 
depends on where you are.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org

On 3/10/2015 7:45 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> Nate,
>
> I'll preface this by stating that I'm the repeater coordinator for
> Montana,  and a retired career 2-way radio tech.
>
> It's common for repeaters to require a CTCSS tone for access,  but is
> -very- rare to find one in the amateur world that also transmits the CTCSS
> tone.  Out of almost 300 I have in Montana I'm aware of none.  The ARRL
> Repeater Directory lists the tone required if it's needed for accessing a
> repeater.