[NLRS] CSVHFS Conference and NLRS Hospitality

[John P. Toscano]

Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:

>>The purpose of this email is to remind everyone that as the hosting club,
>>to extend a friendly and welcoming hand to our visitors.   We should expect
>>to see an influx of conference attendees as soon as Wednesday (July 26),
>>with the big surge on Thursday.   For those who have the opportunity,
>>please monitor 144.200, 147.21+ (thank you TCRC), and 146.46 simplex.  
> 
> 
> There appears to be no tone on this repeater by their web page. What's
> required this year?

The 147.21 repeater has never required a tone, and we hope to keep it 
that way indefinitely if we can, but it's getting harder every year with 
the amount of stray RF in the area.  The Tech Team is working on a 
number of upgrade projects, one of which would allow a savvy user to 
pick which remote receive site they vote into by picking one of 6 CTCSS 
tones, but we aren't there yet.  Certainly, for the duration of this 
event, you will not need a tone.  The repeater does put out a 100 Hz PL 
tone on transmit during QSO's, but not during ID's, so if you program a 
100 Hz receive PL into your radio, you will shut out the ID's and still 
hear the conversations.  But it's not required, or even encouraged.

John Toscano, WØJT
Member, TCRC Tech Team (along with everything else)