DPL DCS Equivalency

[WSDU416]

Hi - I'm new to GMRS. I have two Baofeng GM-15 pro radios. I'm using Radiodity GM-30 software. The repeater I'm trying to program has both an input and output tone of 131 DPL. I programed the following configurations into the radios and none have worked. 

D131N in both input and output

D131i in both input and output

D131N in input and D131i in output and vice versa. 

And lastly 131.8 in both input and output

I was hoping to guess and check my way to the answer and reverse engineer my brain but that didn't pan out. 

Can anyone shine some light on what the problem is? Any help is appreciated. 

[brasda91]

10 minutes ago, WSDU416 said:

Hi - I'm new to GMRS. I have two Baofeng GM-15 pro radios. I'm using Radiodity GM-30 software. The repeater I'm trying to program has both an input and output tone of 131 DPL. I programed the following configurations into the radios and none have worked. 

D131N in both input and output

D131i in both input and output

D131N in input and D131i in output and vice versa. 

And lastly 131.8 in both input and output

I was hoping to guess and check my way to the answer and reverse engineer my brain but that didn't pan out. 

Can anyone shine some light on what the problem is? Any help is appreciated. 

Both in/out should be D131N as far as I know. I don't use the Radiodity software so, make sure you're setting the TX to +5 for the offset. Some programs like Chirp, you have to enter the correct offset in the specific column. Some software like the Wouxun has the TX colum where you just pick the correct TX freq. Even then if you "fat finger" it, you can set the wrong TX freq by accident.

Uploading a screenshot of your program will help too

[brasda91]

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"Some People" think their radios are junk and this video is "right to the point"

[WSDU416]

6 minutes ago, brasda91 said:

Both in/out should be D131N as far as I know. I don't use the Radiodity software so, make sure you're setting the TX to +5 for the offset. Some programs like Chirp, you have to enter the correct offset in the specific column. Some software like the Wouxun has the TX colum where you just pick the correct TX freq. Even then if you "fat finger" it, you can set the wrong TX freq by accident.

Uploading a screenshot of your program will help too

Good point - anything glaringly wrong here? I just tested again with the below and it didn't work.

[brasda91]

It looks good to me. Have you tried setting the Difference Feq Direction to +5 ? Part of me says that shouldn't matter since the TX freq is already set appropriately. 

[WSDU416]

5 minutes ago, brasda91 said:

It looks good to me. Have you tried setting the Difference Feq Direction to +5 ? Part of me says that shouldn't matter since the TX freq is already set appropriately. 

In this instance - that field can't be changed. It's grayed out.

[nokones]

You can't change anything except the Tones, PT-T ID, Display Name, and the wideband/narrowband emissions in RPT-23 channel.

[brasda91]

3 minutes ago, nokones said:

You can't change anything except the Tones, PT-T ID, Display Name, and the wideband/narrowband emissions in RPT-23 channel.

Good catch. I'm used to programming my own custom channels and leave the standard channels like they are.

[nokones]

1 minute ago, brasda91 said:

Good catch. I'm used to programming my own custom channels and leave the standard channels like they are.

You can't program custom channels in that radio with that software.  You can only program custom receive-only channels

[brasda91]

2 minutes ago, nokones said:

You can't program custom channels in that radio with that software.  You can only program custom receive-only channels

 I have never used the Radiodity software. I've only used Chirp and Wouxun software. Doesn't sound very user-friendly