SteveShannon

You're welcome.
I have this same radio.  To set the tone you want menu item #12.  When you get there, just keep pushing the up button until 118.8 appears.  Lock that in and you should be good to go.
Let us know how it works.

Welcome @Maghunter 
Neither of you have to start with your call sign. You can just push the PTT and use each other’s names. “Hi Dennis, this is grandpa.”
Every 15 minutes and when ending a transmission or series of transmissions you are also required to ID. You can include some other identifier, which could be a letter, number, name, or pretty much anything you want: “Wrom258 - grampa”, but you’re not required to.
Exactly the same on a repeater. 

I use a Yaesu FT-4x with a tiny little Diamond antenna sometimes when range isn’t an issue. It works well. I’ll try to find a picture. 

Well finally got Morse Mania installed. Thanks again for the recommendation. Hope I engage with it as enthusiastically! Time will tell 🙂

I guess there's no chirp in Morris Code -- just Meows?😝

He definitely can. I seriously was thinking of doing the same for 1296, but a nice hunk of 1-1/4" Heliax put that to rest.😀

To see if he can.

It's not worth the aggravation for a 50' tower when a good piece of, let me say it without laughing, Andrews Heliax will do the trick. If you are going to be doing this on a 500'+ tower it would make one think about it, but the maintenance logistics are terrible. Again, let me laugh while I say it again, Andrews Heliax. Proper tools and equipment trump fly-by-night installs..

Welcome @Maghunter 
Neither of you have to start with your call sign. You can just push the PTT and use each other’s names. “Hi Dennis, this is grandpa.”
Every 15 minutes and when ending a transmission or series of transmissions you are also required to ID. You can include some other identifier, which could be a letter, number, name, or pretty much anything you want: “Wrom258 - grampa”, but you’re not required to.
Exactly the same on a repeater. 

It would be interesting to see a frequency graph of the ignore lists to see which users are ignored the most.  

I read that. It pretty much said that administrative law courts do not have the final say in adjudication or the defendant is deprived of due process. It doesn't really say much about administrative law being unconstitutional. That was the core of the decision. Anything else does not have bearing on the case.

My radios were aways sent back to a manufacturer approved repair depot. They would have all the required test gear to work on the class of radios they have been approved to service.
For scopes I would just buy one of the “cheap” digital Chinese ones new. Our company purchased a bunch of dual trace 50MHz ones from Rigol. They held up well considering how our service people beat their equipment up in the field.

In amateur radio it’s very similar, a shorter interval between IDs (10 minutes) and more choices for how to ID. 
97.117. Each amateur station, except a space station or telecommand station, must transmit its assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at the end of each communication, and at least every 10 minutes during a communication, for the purpose of clearly making the source of the transmissions from the station known to those receiving the transmissions. No station may transmit unidentified communications or signals, or transmit as the station call sign, any call sign not authorized to the station.

I thought that also at first, and etiquette would lean that way maybe, but here are the actual rules:

95.1751 GMRS station identification.
Each GMRS station must be identified by transmission of its FCC-assigned call sign at the end of transmissions and at periodic intervals during transmissions except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section. A unit number may be included after the call sign in the identification.
(a) The GMRS station call sign must be transmitted:
(1) Following a single transmission or a series of transmissions; and,
(2) After 15 minutes and at least once every 15 minutes thereafter during a series of transmissions lasting more than 15 minutes.
(b) The call sign must be transmitted using voice in the English language or international Morse code telegraphy using an audible tone.
(c) Any GMRS repeater station is not required to transmit station identification if:
(1) It retransmits only communications from GMRS stations operating under authority of the individual license under which it operates; and,
(2) The GMRS stations whose communications are retransmitted are properly identified in accordance with this section.
 

Welcome @Maghunter 
Neither of you have to start with your call sign. You can just push the PTT and use each other’s names. “Hi Dennis, this is grandpa.”
Every 15 minutes and when ending a transmission or series of transmissions you are also required to ID. You can include some other identifier, which could be a letter, number, name, or pretty much anything you want: “Wrom258 - grampa”, but you’re not required to.
Exactly the same on a repeater. 

Welcome @Maghunter 
Neither of you have to start with your call sign. You can just push the PTT and use each other’s names. “Hi Dennis, this is grandpa.”
Every 15 minutes and when ending a transmission or series of transmissions you are also required to ID. You can include some other identifier, which could be a letter, number, name, or pretty much anything you want: “Wrom258 - grampa”, but you’re not required to.
Exactly the same on a repeater. 

Some repeaters and repeater clubs might like users to Id at the start of a transmission too just for convenience but it is not something mandated by the FCC

Welcome @Maghunter 
Neither of you have to start with your call sign. You can just push the PTT and use each other’s names. “Hi Dennis, this is grandpa.”
Every 15 minutes and when ending a transmission or series of transmissions you are also required to ID. You can include some other identifier, which could be a letter, number, name, or pretty much anything you want: “Wrom258 - grampa”, but you’re not required to.
Exactly the same on a repeater. 

I was in the process of my routine quarterly updating the radio codeplugs in all my mobiles and portables the last few days, and this morning, I had four Astro Sabers, model I. II, and IIIs, to finish up and I discovered that they were not transmitting the Inverted DPL Codes. I spent about an hour trying to figure out if it was a setting in the CPS, or the radios were way too old to transmit inverted DPLs. The radios did fine with the normal DPLs.

I did have the Inverted Box Checked in both the conventional personality transmit and receive menus. The Astro Saber Radios would decode the Inverted DPL from a couple of my XTS5000 radios, but the XTS5000 Radios would not decode from the Astro Sabers when the XTS5000 decode feature was enabled. However, the XTS5000 radios would receive the transmission from the Astro Sabers Radio if the Decode feature was disabled and set for CSQ.

I went over and over the CPS Conventional Personality and Zone Assignment settings in both the Astro 25 Portable CPS and the Astro Saber & XTS3000 CPS and everything was set correctly, at least I thought it was, and then a thought came to mind what may be contributing to the cause of the problem. As I was staring at the displays of both the XTS5000 and the Astro Saber Radios, I noticed that the "Talkaround/Direct" symbol in both displays was indicated on both radios, which they should be.

Although, I do know for a fact that with the XTS1500, 2500, and 5000 series portable radios if you have a simplex channel selected, the Talkaround/Direct symbol (→) will automatically be displayed. After, I went back to a repeated channel with the Astro Saber radio and then back to a simplex channel, I noticed that the (→) symbol was not being displayed. Ah Ha!

What I didn't realize is that with the Astro Saber and of course the XTS3000 Series Radios that is not the case now. So, with the (→) not being displayed maybe that has something to do with the "Talkaround/Direct Menu in the Astro Saber & XTS3000 CPS, I went into the CPS and sure enough the menu was not properly setup for the Inverted DPL codes for transmitting if the TalkAround/Direct Feature was enabled.

With the Astro 25 Portable CPS when you have a simplex personality programmed, in the Zone Assignment Menu the T/A Direct column is grayed-out and you are restricted to making any entries, but that is not the case in the Astro Saber & XTS3000 Portable CPS and is not restricted, if the "TalkAround" Box is checked in the Talkaround Menu and the portable radio talkaround/Direct Feature is enabled, the radio will functioned as set. When I disabled the Talkaround/Direct Feature on the Astro Saber, the XTS5000 Radio was able to receive the Astro Sabers' Inverted DPL transmission when the decode feature was enabled. Problem solved.

This will be the case if you reprogram a previously programmed Conventional Personality from a semi/duplex configuration to a simplex configuration which was in my case. If you add a new Conventional Personality, the box in the Talkaround Menu will not be checked.

Over time and after programming a gazillion XTS and XTL radios with both the Astro 25 Mobile and Portable CPS', who would have thought that going back and checking the Talkaround/Direct Menu to disable that feature in any of the early CPS'. Well now, that will be something that I will be doing from now-on.

What I did was I created my own problem. As I was going through checking my programming on the various channels, I activated the Talkaround Feature on the Astro Saber Radio so I wouldn't activate a repeater nearby on one of the channels, because I didn't want to take the time to connect the radio to a dummy load, and then I went to a Zone with all simplex channels and some of them with Inverted DPLs. The end result of this was the fact that the radio worked as designed and all I had to do is go back in uncheck a few boxes. Lesson learned. At least, I figured it out on my own.

Of course, I know-not of any of the details, but it could just be a bot/scraper gone rogue/out of control - very common and often confuckulated as an attack - with the same end result.
OTOH, it could be the sad-H.A.M. cartel ....
SOURCE: Have run a dozen or so of my own websites and owned a small web-hosting company for 10+ years.

A little strange that someone is attacking this site. It has to be someone looking for holes in security and with any luck, they aren't going to find anything.
I've been having trouble with slow response times but have not experienced any errors and I would like to share the sentiments with the thank you! I enjoy this site and feel it's a shame that someone has a hair across their backside to the point they want to DDoS it.

Today I’ve been getting “access forbidden” errors when trying to reply to some posts. I also have seen an error that looks like a DNS error when the URL couldn’t be found and for the past few days I’ve seen a few instances where I received an error saying that there were too many connections. 
Another person has mentioned that he had gotten the “access forbidden” error. 
Have others seen these same errors?

Using Morse Mania I was able to recognize all the letters within just a few days.  You can too. It’s not that difficult. There are multiple levels, with each level teaching two additional letters. The first level is ‘E’ and ‘T’, a single dot and a single dash. But you have to keep at it or it goes away (at least for me).
What’s difficult for me is getting to the point of being proficient enough to send characters.  
I really urge anyone to try Morse Mania.  It’s actually fun.

In amateur radio it’s very similar, a shorter interval between IDs (10 minutes) and more choices for how to ID. 
97.117. Each amateur station, except a space station or telecommand station, must transmit its assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at the end of each communication, and at least every 10 minutes during a communication, for the purpose of clearly making the source of the transmissions from the station known to those receiving the transmissions. No station may transmit unidentified communications or signals, or transmit as the station call sign, any call sign not authorized to the station.

Welcome @Maghunter 
Neither of you have to start with your call sign. You can just push the PTT and use each other’s names. “Hi Dennis, this is grandpa.”
Every 15 minutes and when ending a transmission or series of transmissions you are also required to ID. You can include some other identifier, which could be a letter, number, name, or pretty much anything you want: “Wrom258 - grampa”, but you’re not required to.
Exactly the same on a repeater.