At 06:23 PM 09/05/07, you wrote: >At 9/4/2007 12:40 PM, you wrote: > >Al, > > > >Has nothing to do with pride, just sound sense that we don't need > >tone. Tone has its uses, but not a solve all problems approach. > > > >In my case solves no problem and in fact does create one...vacationers > >have trouble finding the tone freq. Most directories are not always up to > >date and to have a computer on vacation to look it up is not what many can > >or want to do. > >True, but if a particular area standardizes on one CTCSS tone frequency, >the directory becomes insignificant as the repeaters once again become just >as easy to find as carrier-access systems - just without all the open >squelch blowing from the distant weak signals on the input from that band >opening. > >Bob NO6B
And in several areas a 100hz tone = an open system.
