Receiving Repeater Help

[Flyer88]

Hi All,

I am trying to use a repeater and I can open it but can’t hear anything. I have it set up in CHIRP as:

462.600 DCTS 503 NN - 0.500000

Here is the info I have:

Freq: 462.600

input tone 503 DPL 

output tone 103.5hz 

I don’t understand where you program the output tone into CHIRP? 

Any help would be great. 
 

 

 

Edited November 9 by Flyer88

[Socalgmrs]

103.5 Is not a digital tone. You’re in the  wrong column if you’ll notice 074 and 114 are both whole numbers where 103.5 is not a whole number.  
 

it’s usually very helpful to ask the owner of the repeater so they can help you with exactly what they need.  Usually they are extremely helpful.   However in this case it would seam like a simple swap to the other column would do the trick. 
 

also if this is a permission required repeater with private tones please do not put the repeater name and location in the same post as the tones. 
 

 

you do not need the rx tone to hear a repeater however.   If you’re opening it and hearing a kerchunk back then you’re ok.  Just because you can kerchunk a repeater does not mean it can hear and retransmit your voice.  How far away are you?   Have you heard other people on the repeater?  Do you have great line of sight?   What radio and antenna are you running.   This comes up every week it seams and the vast majority of the time the person is just not close enough or has something in The way OR no one was on the repeater when they reached out.   Again an email to the owner would usually help with all this.  

[Flyer88]

Thanks for the advice, I changed the post. I am about 8 miles from it 10watt transmit with a Nagoya 771. It comes back and I see the receive light up with other people responding to my radio check but I can’t actually hear anyone. 

[WRXR374]

In "Cross Mode" column, select "Tone->DTCS"  It'll ask you to set the TX tone (103.5) and ten the RX DTCSS (503).

[amaff]

4 hours ago, Flyer88 said:

Thanks for the advice, I changed the post. I am about 8 miles from it 10watt transmit with a Nagoya 771. It comes back and I see the receive light up with other people responding to my radio check but I can’t actually hear anyone. 

Disable the Rx tone is troubleshooting step #1. It's not necessary for using the repeater (but for filtering out, ideally, non-repeater traffic on your radio's end). But if it's set wrong for some reason, it'll also filter out your repeater.