On repeaters the beep is more than a courtesy tone
It also signals that the repeater timer has been reset.

Transmission times are accumulative, if folks don't wait for the beep.
Example: A machine has a 60 second timer and station X talks for 50 seconds,
if station Y comes in before the beep, 10 seconds later the timer will shut
down the repeater. To signal a timer dropout, some repeaters use a voice
announcement, others use a series of short beeps, such as a triple beep.
Others may use a short delay, a short beep and then dropout.

As i said before -- if you use a roger beep on a repeater, a dozen plus guys
will alert you that you have a beep tone and ask you to turn it off
--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !






"Ken C" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:15:25 -0800, "Caveat Lector"
wrote:
Hi Ken -- ignore the nasty replies

I always ignore the crackpots; most have no lives and nothing to say
of value.

Well, NASA uses roger beep with its astronauts and ham repeaters use
them all the time, but call them courtesy tones. So I see no problem
with experimenting on SSB, especially with folks I know who have no
objection. Especially if the tone if not loud or extravagant.