I'm lost

[WSHB915]

I recently got a radioditty GM-30. I am trying to get it to work with a local repeater and dont know about how to get the ctss tone set up.

My question is do I enter the 103.5 ctss tone into the TX and RX? I read somewhere that I should only enter the ctcss tone on the transmit (TX) and not on the Receive (RX)??

Can someone please help?? 

 

[OffRoaderX]

You only need the TX tone. The RX tone is optional, and as you can already see, will cause you confusion - so you should ignore it for now.

After you level-up to "expert mode", then you can worry about the RX tone.

[HHD1]

3 hours ago, Socalgmrs said:

Just put it in both.  It’s the correct grown up why to do it.  That way you won’t have to hear other traffic and be confused.  You also won’t have to go back and do it right later 

A lot of repeaters I've seen use separate tones for tx and rx.  Use the RX tone only if you don't want to hear anyone that isn't coming through on the repeater. If you don't use it, you will still hear the repeater as well as any traffic on the same frequency transmitting directly to your radio.

And being a grown up means you can decide which way you want to do things.  Even if it's wrong and you make a mistake, it doesn't make you a child.  A child is someone that doesn't realize this yet...

[WSAM454]

2 hours ago, Socalgmrs said:

Just put it in both.  It’s the correct grown up why to do it.  That way you won’t have to hear other traffic and be confused.  You also won’t have to go back and do it right later 

No, if the repeater does not use the CTCSS tone on it's output you will not hear anything!   (Not all repeaters use a tone on their output.)   As OffroaderX said, you only need to set your transmit for the tone.

[WSFL951]

12 hours ago, WSHB915 said:

I recently got a radioditty GM-30. I am trying to get it to work with a local repeater and dont know about how to get the ctss tone set up.

My question is do I enter the 103.5 ctss tone into the TX and RX? I read somewhere that I should only enter the ctcss tone on the transmit (TX) and not on the Receive (RX)??

Can someone please help?? 

 

This video will teach you how to set up the CTCSS and the DCS.

[Socalgmrs]

Just put it in both.  It’s the correct grown up why to do it.  That way you won’t have to hear other traffic and be confused.  You also won’t have to go back and do it right later