[Yaesu] ft-8900 need help with cross band function....

[Jonathan Thawley]

I'm not sure if this particular repeater has tone encoding on or not... i'll
have to do some testing tomorrow... but i will try that out tomorrow and see
if that helps out the problem :)

Thanks for the suggestion...

so does the 7800 not have that problem?

Jonathan

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM, KBØNLY <kb0nly at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Nope.. Nothing you can do about it, i have the FT-8800 and i also had an
> 8900 before trading it in for a couple FT-7800R's..  Long story short, it
> won't change back until the carrier its receiving drops.  If the repeater
> has tone encode and your running decode then its a little quicker as most
> radios drop faster that way, they drop the tone before dropping the carrier
> to remove any burst at the end of the transmission, if the radio it setup
> for decode and it sees the tone drop it will treat it the same as a carrier
> drop when crossbanding.
>
> The radio will see the drop of the tone and will then allow changeover, but
> still it needs to see a loss of receive on the one band before the other
> will go into receive.
>
> 73,
>
> Scott
>
>
>
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