Investigating an option for a friend of a friend... are there any export AM/FM rigs that have CTCSS/PL decoding on FM? Long story about Northern Maine hunting camps if anyone really wants to know.
The old Johnson Messenger 1 (white face) had a Tone Alert accessory. I still have a couple of those lying around, but never actually tried to use them. Those were based on reed elements similar to the old Motorola Vibrasponders. I guess you could say they're the mechanical equivalent of today's solid state PlI remember some old school CB had a PL feature. Can't recall how it worked, but was advertised as a private line.
Here is what I posted on another thread about CTCSS on the Lincoln 2 and Anytone. I do own a Lincoln 2 and experimented with the CTCSS.I know the Lincoln 'll plus does CTCSS and DCS encode, but I an not sure about decode.
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Jeff
Apparently so, but it appears the Anytone radio is designed like the President Lincoln which only has decoding or encode/decode options, no encode only.
Most repeaters use encoding only so these radio's are useless for repeater usage.
The only thing these installed tone boards are good for on these radio's is for private conversations with similar equipped radio's.