SteveW

[WSES676]

I'm trying to program Chirp with a GMRS repeater that has dual tones.  Not sure if I'm doing it right.  In this example, the Repeater is in Bonney Lake, WA:

Is Tone mode TSQL?   Where do I put the dual tones?  Input tone is 218.1mhz and output tone is 114.8mhz......  

The only columns I can choose for those numbers is:  Tone Mode, Tone, Tone Squelch, DTCS, RX DTCS, DTCS Polarity, Cross Mode and Duplex.

 

Please help me with the programming of the two tones and the proper modes.

 

Thanks

WSES676

 

[Guest]

Cross tone and then you can input both different tones.   Then they will go under dtcs and rx dtcs

[WSES676]

Thanks for the reply, but the DTCS tones in chirp don't match the websites tones for that repeater.  Can't be digital, right?

I tried cross tone mode "tone-tone".  Still not opening the repeater but I'm close enough it should.   See below.  I know it's possible I'm just not hitting the repeater but I'm easily hitting much further repeaters.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

Yes I’m sorry I want even thinking about non digital times.  Totally skipped over.     Try swapping the tones should work.  Unless you have something In The way such as hills mountains trees buildings ect.   Are you sure the repeater is online?  Can you hear them talking on simplex?  
again sorry and try swapping the tones rx<~~~>tx. 

[SteveShannon]

13 hours ago, WSES676 said:

I'm trying to program Chirp with a GMRS repeater that has dual tones.  Not sure if I'm doing it right.  In this example, the Repeater is in Bonney Lake, WA:

Is Tone mode TSQL?   Where do I put the dual tones?  Input tone is 218.1mhz and output tone is 114.8mhz......  

The only columns I can choose for those numbers is:  Tone Mode, Tone, Tone Squelch, DTCS, RX DTCS, DTCS Polarity, Cross Mode and Duplex.

 

Please help me with the programming of the two tones and the proper modes.

 

Thanks

WSES676

 

Set tone mode to Tone. Don’t worry about the repeater output tone (which is your radio’s input tone. In Tone mode it doesn’t matter; all transmissions are reproduced. So then all you need to set is the tone you send to the repeater, 218.1 Hz (not MHz!!!!) Put that in the Tone column. 
Here’s something else: For a repeater be sure you have a 5.000 MHz offset and that a plus sign appears in the Duplex column. Repeaters are duplex. I only mention it because the highlighted line above isn’t set that way. 

[WSES676]

Thanks Steve..... This is the configuration I used based on your reply.  Hope i did it right.  Still not hitting the repeater but if the settings are correct, then I'm satisfied I'm not hitting for other reasons.  I just think I should easily hit it from my location as I'm hitting repeaters farther away (I know, there are other factors).  Please see below:

 

[SteveShannon]

4 hours ago, WSES676 said:

Thanks Steve..... This is the configuration I used based on your reply.  Hope i did it right.  Still not hitting the repeater but if the settings are correct, then I'm satisfied I'm not hitting for other reasons.  I just think I should easily hit it from my location as I'm hitting repeaters farther away (I know, there are other factors).  Please see below:

 

I guess I don’t understand why OFFSET doesn’t say 5.00000.  467.70000 MHz is your transmit frequency which is calculated when the offset frequency is added to the frequency in the first column.  Under duplex it should have a plus sign ‘+’.  The line for Bothell is a good example.

The way you had it in the earlier configuration (with cross mode) as suggested by wrxp381 really should have worked.  Switching to Tone rather than CROSS simply disables Tone Squelch on your radio so you hear everything on 462.700 MHz.  It’s a way to troubleshoot, but it does leave you subject to receiving transmissions from other radios.  Once you’re certain you have the repeater input tone correct you might want to go back to Cross mode and add the correct Squelch tone.

If you still don’t receive anything, try going closer.  If that doesn’t work then try changing your tone to 114.8 Hz in case the owner put the input tone into the output field on the repeater info page.

[WSDD519]

Under "Duplex", you have it set for "split"...when it should be "+".  That way your offset is correct.