On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2. It has to talk, beep and chirp. > > Just about every controller beeps. By "chirp" do you mean fancy sound > effects? Some of the cheaper controllers only have simple beeps & won't > "chirp".
Hahaha... I love the way you put that Bob. It won't chirp! The sound effects get old, real fast. Even a simple dual-tone ascending courtesy tone in a fast conversation can get annoying. I programmed one of our controllers on a repeater we recently worked on this way. I laughed out loud when one of our other techs who helped get it on the air commented (after about a 40 minute drive home -- using the new repeater and seeing how its coverage was working) -- "I feel like I've been playing pong for half an hour!" We'll probably be ... uh... removing that courtesy tone. There is really only one good purpose for the sound effects... I can tell which repeater I'm hearing, coming out of the scanner across the room! Nate WY0X
