Split tones problem

[WSCS419]

Greetings, everyone. I am new to this, and possibly some of you have read this many times, but I have a slight problem with the split tones. Several repeaters in my area use them. The problem is that both tones are the same number, and then I don't hear anything, and I don't see that activates the repeater. Is there any trick to fix this? Thank you for the help you can give me.

[Socalgmrs]

3 minutes ago, WSCS419 said:

Greetings, everyone. I am new to this, and possibly some of you have read this many times, but I have a slight problem with the split tones. Several repeaters in my area use them. The problem is that both tones are the same number, and then I don't hear anything, and I don't see that activates the repeater. Is there any trick to fix this? Thank you for the help you can give me.

Post a picture of your cps and a picture of the repeater page or info.  Slit tones are never the same number.  Are you programming on the radio face or a program?

[WSCS419]

I purchased a Baofeng uv 9g and I use the software I downloaded from their website.

[Socalgmrs]

So you need to post the repeater info and a screen shot of the software code if you’re using.  That way we can see what’s going wrong. 

[SteveShannon]

12 hours ago, WSCS419 said:

Greetings, everyone. I am new to this, and possibly some of you have read this many times, but I have a slight problem with the split tones. Several repeaters in my area use them. The problem is that both tones are the same number, and then I don't hear anything, and I don't see that activates the repeater. Is there any trick to fix this? Thank you for the help you can give me.

Program only the transmit tone in your radio.  Leave the receive tone blank or set it to TONE rather than TSQL.  That will allow you to hear the repeater and anything else that’s on that frequency. 

Second, make sure you are close enough to the repeater to hear it.  Many repeaters simply don’t have much traffic so you might not hear anything, but if you are close enough eventually you’ll hear something.