[Scan-DC] CTCSS / PL

[John Wilson]

   Both radios will decode analog and digital CTCSS tones on analog 
signals when the option is selected.  The 796D search is quite slow but 
the 396 should be fast.  I have both the 796D and 996T.  The 996T is 
almost instantaneous whereas the 796D goes through a slower decode 
process.  Read your user's manuals as to how to activate the option.

oldsdoug at hotmail.com wrote:

>Hi gang, I have a question regarding CTCSS, or "Private Line".  I'll take a look on RadioReference also, but am using all my resources!  If a station uses a PL tone when it transmits, but I don't know what tone they are using, is there any way I can find out what the tone is while monitoring that station?  (I have a BC-396 and a BC-796.)
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>To give you the details:  My parents recently moved to Riderwood Village, a retirement community off Cherry Hill Road at the Montgomery / Prince Georges County Line.  Riderwood has 6 UHF frequencies (or 3 pairs):  452.500 / 457.500 MHz, 462.225 / 467.225 MHz, and 462.5 / 467.500 MHz that are used for security, maintenance, shuttle buses and the like.  The 452.5 / 457.5 frequency is shared by some other system(s!) and I have been receiving one of those (completely unintelligible, I might add!) in my travels around Montgomery County.  (I think it must be Capital Cab, looking in the FCC database.)
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>What I'd like to do is program my radios with the PL tone for Riderwood so that I don't hear the cab company jive, but again, not sure what Riderwood's PL tone is - is there any easy way to find it out?
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>Ten-four!
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>:)
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>Thanks
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