Travel Tone??

[WSIK532]

Does anyone know what freq. is for travel tone? I hear there was one. please provide all the information .

 

Thanks

WSIK532

[marcspaz]

Generally speaking, if a repeater accepts a tone of 141.3 MHz, it's considered an open repeater. It was the "travel tone" Popular Wireless and the Personal Radio Association came up with when they came up with the idea of the Open Repeater Initiative (ORI). It was originally repeater channel 20 with 141.3 for the tone.

[Socalgmrs]

OMG let’s not get into this AGAIN yes you may find some random repeater with a 141.3 tone or you may find some rando on the highway monitoring 16, 19, 20…. With a “travel tone set but this is not what gmrs is for and the vast majority of people are NOT running a “travel tone” the vast majority of people on gmrs do not want to here from randos while traveling.  They want to talk vehicle to vehicle while caravaning.   If you try and reach out while traveling on any gmrs “channel” with or without a tone the chances of you finding some one listing are very slim.  If you travel and want to talk to strangers on a lonely evening get a cb.  State troopers usually still monitor cb 19 for local travel call channel and  9 for emergencies.  

[WRUE951]

9 hours ago, marcspaz said:

Generally speaking, if a repeater accepts a tone of 141.3 MHz, it's considered an open repeater. It was the "travel tone" Popular Wireless and the Personal Radio Association came up with when they came up with the idea of the Open Repeater Initiative (ORI). It was originally repeater channel 20 with 141.3 for the tone.

Mark is right on the travel channel.  There was an attempt to set up CH 20 with 141.3 tone several years back but it never caught wind..  However it you scan while traveling, ch 20 does seem to get more random traffic then most other chnnels, unitl you get near bigger cities..  Then you are in for a free for all.  

[WRYZ926]

A lot of the GMRS repeaters here in Missouri that are along major US highways/interstates use the Travel Tone of 141.3. It's a different story once you get into the St Louis and Kansas City areas.

As Mark and WRUE951 stated, there is not an official travel channel per se. No channels were ever fully adopted for that use on GMRS. You can monitor channel 20 if you want or you can scan the simplex channels while traveling. You can also just program extra repeater channels with the tones set to 141.3.

And just ignore Negative Nancy and all of his negative vibes. He is either off his meds or needs to go seek  professional help.

[marcspaz]

1 hour ago, Socalgmrs said:

State troopers usually still monitor cb 19 for local travel call channel and  9 for emergencies.  

 

These are both wrong.

 

REACT stopped monitoring 9 in the very early '90s. State troopers haven't had a tunable HF radio since Smoky and The Bandit was in theaters. 

[WRYZ926]

The Missouri Highway Patrol stopped monitoring channels 9 and 19 about 20-25 years ago. Plus channel 9 is pretty much useless with all the ID10T's running amplifiers with the CB radios.  I hear at least one station from Puerto Rico blasting away on channel 9 all of the time. He sounds like he is sitting right next to me.

And not too many truckers use CBs anymore. What traffic you do hear is not something I would want women and children to hear. When I do listen to CB channels, its usually some ID10T showing his lack of intelligence or guys chasing skip.

GMRS is not just for talking to family and friends. You can use it for what ever reasons you want as long as you are not breaking any rules/regulations and you are not causing interference with others.

[WRXB215]

2 hours ago, Socalgmrs said:

OMG let’s not get into this AGAIN

Then don't.

[nokones]

45 minutes ago, marcspaz said:

 

These are both wrong.

 

REACT stopped monitoring 9 in the very early '90s. State troopers haven't had a tunable HF radio since Smoky and The Bandit was in theaters. 

Back in the day of CB radios, if a California Highway Patrol (CHP) Enforcement Vehicle had a CB, it was usually the officer's personal radio with the approval of the supervisor. However, the Department did install CB Radios in the commercial enforcement vehicles, and Scales and Inspection Facilities for directing commercial drivers prior to making an enforcement contact.

The CHP Dispatch Centers were never equipped a CB radio.

[PRadio]

2 hours ago, Socalgmrs said:

OMG let’s not get into this AGAIN yes you may find some random repeater with a 141.3 tone or you may find some rando on the highway monitoring 16, 19, 20…. With a “travel tone set but this is not what gmrs is for and the vast majority of people are NOT running a “travel tone” the vast majority of people on gmrs do not want to here from randos while traveling.  They want to talk vehicle to vehicle while caravaning.   If you try and reach out while traveling on any gmrs “channel” with or without a tone the chances of you finding some one listing are very slim.  If you travel and want to talk to strangers on a lonely evening get a cb.  State troopers usually still monitor cb 19 for local travel call channel and  9 for emergencies.  

Can you let us know what tone you use so we can all avoid you?  Of course you may not use a tone, since your tone here is negative, and there are no negative tones for radios. 

[marcspaz]

36 minutes ago, nokones said:

the Department did install CB Radios in the commercial enforcement vehicles, and Scales and Inspection Facilities for directing commercial drivers prior to making an enforcement contact.

 

That actually makes a lot of sense for those situations.

We had something similar to that here in some localities, but with waste management.  The counties that take a high volume of commercial waste have installed CB Base stations at the office and mobiles on some of the rigs on the landfill so they can talk to the commercial drivers and provide directions as they approach and move around the landfill.  Those facilities that I am aware of did it on their own (per location) without getting the county government involved.  It was just local managers that implemented it.

[nokones]

2 hours ago, PRadio said:

Can you let us know what tone you use so we can all avoid you?  Of course you may not use a tone, since your tone here is negative, and there are no negative tones for radios. 

 He may be using an Inverted Tone?

[GrouserPad]

19 hours ago, marcspaz said:

 

That actually makes a lot of sense for those situations.

We had something similar to that here in some localities, but with waste management.  The counties that take a high volume of commercial waste have installed CB Base stations at the office and mobiles on some of the rigs on the landfill so they can talk to the commercial drivers and provide directions as they approach and move around the landfill.  Those facilities that I am aware of did it on their own (per location) without getting the county government involved.  It was just local managers that implemented it.

Our capital city  has a lot of “freeway enforcement” vehicles that work inside the city limits and I have listened to them talking on CB back when I used to drive truck. I’ve spoke with them a few times over cb 19 as well. Been about 8 yrs ago. Not sure if the freeway enforcement is still doing this. 

[WRTC928]

3 hours ago, GrouserPad said:

Our capital city  has a lot of “freeway enforcement” vehicles that work inside the city limits and I have listened to them talking on CB back when I used to drive truck. I’ve spoke with them a few times over cb 19 as well. Been about 8 yrs ago. Not sure if the freeway enforcement is still doing this. 

I can remember that in the 1970s, most of the highway patrol and sheriff's department vehicles had CB capability, although I don't know if they were issued or private purchase. I'm sure they'd be a lot less useful today, since almost every vehicle has a cell phone and someone will call in the event of an emergency, so I'm not surprised that they stopped monitoring CB channels. I do have a CB in my truck, and sometimes I hear something useful, but not very often, TBH.

As far as I can tell, most people using FRS/GMRS to convoy on the highway are using tones. There have been a couple of times when I heard people who were obviously a mile or so behind me and I tried to warn them about something I was seeing, but they couldn't hear me. It may be that in some parts of the country, the channels are so jammed that you really need a tone, but in Oklahoma and the surrounding states where I do most of my driving, conversation is pretty sparse, and most of the time I'm solo, so I run with no tone. Even if I can't talk to them, I can hear people warning one another of lane closures, etc. and that's useful.