[NLRS] CSVHFS Conference and NLRS Hospitality

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 11:13 -0500, John P. Toscano wrote:
> 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)

Tone access to repeaters never cures the interference, it only hides it.
And it takes the open repeater away from those without the latest of
radios where it can be difficult to add tone usefully to some good
radios like the FT-726 or lots of working vintage handhelds.

With tone on the other bands of TCRC repeaters I didn't have confidence
from reading the web page that there wasn't tone on 147.21 and I sure
don't want to fiddle with programming tone while driving. My mobile
rig's too complex to allow that safely.
-- 
73, Jerry, K0CQ,
All content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer