As an aside, the selective calling "features" are usually worthless for ham
radio. They are there as sales gimmicks, and because these radios are sold
in some countries for commercial radios. I have an idea that the engineers
may not have as much operating experience. They often come up with neat
ideas with glaring problems in actual operation. Ham radio is usually a
poor substitute for other services. I.E. If you didn't get the call, was it
because you weren't listening or because you were out of range of the
extremely expensive wide area network? If you need selective calling, get a
cell phone. If you need fleet dispatch, get radios that last all day on a
charge and don't need to be within 6" of your ear to hear. If you like to
mess around with radios and try different things, You ARE a ham. Have fun.

Thanks for asking the question. We need more like you. We should all seek
to learn from the mistakes and triumphs of those who went before.

What were you trying to do?

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I'm totally new to amateur radio, so this may seem like a stupid
question. Does the typical 2 meter or UHF repeater repeat DTMF
tones?

ICOM radios have an optional DTMF Decoder to control squelch, and I
was wondering if I could set the frequency to a local repeater and
only hear messages when the correct DTMF signal is sent. That way I
could use repeaters and still have the privacy like subtones, instead
of listening to everything that comes accross the repeater.


But, this cool functionality won't work if repeaters don't repeat
DTMF
sent to them.


Thanks in advance for you help.