wbrichards

weird question here on a subject thats above me so I'm hoping some folks on here can help... I have 2 maxtrac 100's setup using an adrino uno based controller with a ct, a few seconds hang time, and a 60sec tot. and thats it. the radios are programed to tx and rx a 100 pl tone. this arduino has some serious software glitches which sometimes causes the tx to hang with no COR unitl the TOT resets it and sometimes it wont play the CT... and honestly i may have a comma or something in the wrong place in the file thats making it act that way i dont know I'm done trying to get it to work right. so... I'm going to be changing to an id o matic 4 but one thing i don't like about my current setup is I have a few cheap chinese portables (H777) that access the machine and these things dont pick up a 180deg or 120deg reverse burst so theres always a static crash when the machine drops. Since to the idomatic 4 "passes" the audio from one radio to the next without processing it I'm wondering if i could program the tx radio to not have any tone but leave the 100 pl on the rx radio and maybe the pl tone will pass through and be retransmited through the tx radio ?? essentially, I'm wondering if the PL tone transmitted by one portable will pass through the machine with the idomatic4 and be sent out to be picked up by the receiving portable without being "filtered out" by the controller. assuming that would be possible I should be able to easily eliminate the squelch tail by having a 4-6sec hang time but no tone on the tx radio itself... and maybe still be able to hear a CT if the delay is super short and its just a 600hz cw T or E or something like that... I'm guessing it would take the Chinese portable at least 1 full second to figure out there's no PL on the carrier anymore and close down the audio. any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks much !! - bill