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I use the mantra High In, Low Out when dealing with repeaters.

Thanks - got one workming. All help much appreciated. Thank you

When it comes to repeaters (and privacy tones for that matter) I often equate tones to keys and locks. A TX tone on your radio is a key that can unlock the repeater (or radio with privacy tone) so you can transmit through it (or to it). The RX on your radio is the lock that prevents you hearing everything but what gets unlocked by the tone coming in from the repeater (or radio with proper tone). That’s why with no RX tone set on your settings you hear everything on the channel. As mentioned CTCSS and DCS are the tones.

Seems like most repeaters are CTCSS but in this case it’s DCS. These are still tones for repeaters and should be right in the same section of your manual that @Sshannon mentioned.

You’ll need to program your radio with the transmit tone. Without the TX tone the repeater will ignore your transmission. Usually it’s just a setting for each channel. Your manual should show you where. Look under “privacy tones” or CTCSS. It’ll be in that section. FYI “privacy tones” don’t protect you from eavesdropping.

@WRXJ947 Those are the tones for both send (TX) and receive (RX) for both repeaters. Program those into your radio TX-DCS and RX-DCS in the appropriate repeater channel/frequency locations on your radio. you can leave the receive (RX) off if you like and you will hear all transmissions on the channel. This will help you make sure you are accessing the repeaters first then put them in if you only want to hear the repeaters transmissions in those channel locations.

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That frequency is the one you listen to. Yes, TX is up 5 MHz and that’s where you must use the DCTS tone to get into the repeater. If your radio is a certified gmrs radio the offset will already be included when you choose a repeater channel (15RP - 22RP or 23-30 depending on how your radio has them labeled.) I recommend leaving the tone off of your receiver at first, so you can be sure you get in. If you’re bothered by hearing other non-repeater traffic on the frequency you can always add DCTS to your receive channel.

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