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Yes, Menu 18 is set for 2Tone and 2T is on the top of the screen. I can send tones with the CALL button. All radios are set to the same tone pattern. I just can't get the DB-25G to respond to the tones or mute the speaker until tones are received. Michael

As I said, I cannot use DTMF or CTCSS. Sometimes we use a repeater and the repeater will not pass those. Michael

Has anybody configured 2 Tone signaling on the DB-25G? I have figured out encode and call, but the receive is an issue. Basically, I want the speaker muted until it receives the proper 2 tone signal, then I want the speaker unmuted until it is reset. Kind of like a pager. I also want to be able to leave it on a local channel and muted until I send tones from my mobile to open the speaker so my housemate doesn't have to listen to others on the channel until I want to call her. I cannot use DTMF or CTCSS signaling for this. I see menu item 19 SPMUTE that gives the AND/OR option for unmutng the speaker with CTCSS and/or 2 tone, and have that set, but I'm not seeing any way to actually mute the speaker to wait for the tones, or how to reset it after it opens. Thanks for any help. Michael

A little late to these comments. Just got a couple DB-25G radios. They program OK with CHIRP. Channels 8-14 are present as RX only and cannot be changed. Programming not very intuitive. One nice (for me) feature over the DB-20 is the Quad-Watch, ability to monitor four channels at once. Having a bank or group function would be nice as I travel a lot and the ability to put additional repeaters in groups for different areas would be useful. The scan is kind of slow compared to most radios these days. The manual is just shy of worthless. After watching a couple YouTube videos I finally got it set up how I like it. The WX channels are way up at the end of the list (190-199) but are not marked to skip in scan by default, so you have to go in and mark them skip if you want to scan, which was a bit annoying. There is no resume delay when scanning, so if it stops on someone talking, it resumes as soon as they stop, if you have a lot of channels programmed, it will take a few seconds to get back to that channel so you will miss part of the reply. So far, so good. It meets my particular needs. Michael