"Frank" wrote in
news:01c3802c$00d94060$0125250a@ijujqtfjlxdptwlr:

Ah, if only the tone squelch was that easy for me. Pittsburgh, my city of
residence, has deigned to use the same tone on virtually all their 12
active police channels. Often, with my Yaesu VX-5R, the adjacent channels
erroneously open the squelch, so I get to listen to very weak signals
from the wrong channel. Also, with my VX-5R, once the squelch opens, and
the legitimate signal is dropped, there is a delay until the squelch
circuit realizes that the requisite tone is gone, so I get to listen to
more gibberish between legitimate calls.

http://www.wpascanner.com/pa/pghdps.htm

For the police:

453.100
453.250
453.400
453.550
453.700
etc.

For the local Port Authority Bus:

453.050
453.200
453.300
453.500
453.600
453.750


As the legitimate tone is dropped, say for police channel 453.250 from
above, I get serenaded with a cacophony from the bus radio at 453.200 (or
453.300, I don't know which)

Was this very bright for the police radios to have been configured so
that the tones are identical on so many frequencies, is there a reason
for this?

Unfortunately the VX-5R has no Attenuation option, so that in some areas
of Pittsburgh, the radio is virtually useless.

Regards.



Burr ...

^ The new antenna sure beats the rubber ducky I have been using
^ on my BC245. I had to lockout a lot of freq.'s!!

Receiving too much is a very annoying problem. In some cases setting
attenuation on those channels is enough. In other cases I've had to
move the frequency to a radio that has tone squelch, then I permit
only the applicable tone. Another option would be to put those
frequencies on another radio with the rubber ducky again.

Frank




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