Technically, yes, but in SWPA nearly all ham repeaters use the same tone and I've never heard of it being a problem.
Besides, if all the hams run the same tone, and the commercial users avoid that tone, it makes intra-service intermod problems much less likely, and I would much rather have only ham-to-ham problems to solve. Joe M. WA3GIN wrote: > > > Looking for opinions. > > Our club has a couple of 2m repeaters; we chose to run them with PL and > we picked 107.2 because that tone freq. was not in use in the area. > Recently two other clubs who also have 2m repeaters have decided to > utilze the same PL tone freq. > > Does having numerous repeaters PL'd with the same tone freq. increase > the probability of the normally generated intermod/mixed signal to > now carry within the produced signal a correct PL tone that may land > on the input freq. of another local repeater? Is it considered a bad > practice to utilize the same PL for numerous repeaters in the same band > all located within a few miles of each other? > > Thanks, > dave > wa3gin > > >
