Help with access tone
 

I am taking my IC-W32A HT with me to europe on Vacation. The repeater
access tone there is universally 1750 HZ however, my HT is not
designed for this requirement. Is there a workaround? A manual whistle
maybe? who would sell one?
Thanks in advance
73
Fred
wb6iiq

"Fred" wrote in message
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I am taking my IC-W32A HT with me to europe on Vacation. The repeater
access tone there is universally 1750 HZ however, my HT is not
designed for this requirement. Is there a workaround? A manual whistle
maybe? who would sell one?
Thanks in advance
73
Fred
wb6iiq

There used to be articles in magazines to build the tone in a mic.

But I would really be surprised if it wasn't in your radio. You may
just not want to do what would be required to activate it. With
the European requirements for frequency coverage, I wouldn't be
surprised if you have to opened jumpers or diodes on your PCB
to configure your radio for one of the various European modes.

Mike

"Fred" wrote in message
m...
I am taking my IC-W32A HT with me to europe on Vacation. The repeater
access tone there is universally 1750 HZ however, my HT is not
designed for this requirement. Is there a workaround? A manual whistle
maybe? who would sell one?
Thanks in advance
73
Fred
wb6iiq

Back when I was DA2LJ in Germany (70s) a whistle worked. You see once its
brought up, it stayed up till the carrier dropped out on the repeater,
resetting the system.

Your really going to love the system in Europe. The repeaters are on
basically the same freqs and spread out and seperated so its like a cell
phone system. You drop out of one, and your in range of another. Not like
stateside at all.

Dan/W4NTI

Hello, Fred and the group,

repeaters over here in central Europe are not any more "universally" to be
opened by 1750 hz tone. Many are carrier opened, and some need a PL tone.

The 1750 hz tone can be generated by whistling, though it is not the easy
way, since the length of the tone differs.
I bet, there is a setting in your HT to operate with the 1750 tone. I
operate a VX5R since 5 years, bought in San Diego. After doing some of the
"usual mods" www.mods.dk I could operate it over there as well as here in
Europe.

Unlike in the States, Repeaters are allocated frequencies between 145.600 to
145.787,5 in a spacing of 12.5 khz.
Only few are out of this range.

Mail me, offlist if you like, or here if this topic is of interest for
others, where you plan to go, from your name assuming somwhere in the german
speaking countries. Repeaters are strictly owed by clubs here, but are all
open by law, and are well documented. I can mail you a list, or a link. If
you need help for your travel, I am out of this business.

Herzliche Grüße an alle

73 de DL/OE8SOQ
Helmut

Echolink # 107658
"Fred" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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| I am taking my IC-W32A HT with me to europe on Vacation. The repeater
| access tone there is universally 1750 HZ however, my HT is not
| designed for this requirement. Is there a workaround? A manual whistle
| maybe? who would sell one?
| Thanks in advance
| 73
| Fred
| wb6iiq

"Fred" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
m...
| I am taking my IC-W32A HT with me to europe on Vacation. The repeater
| access tone there is universally 1750 HZ however, my HT is not
| designed for this requirement. Is there a workaround? A manual whistle
| maybe? who would sell one?
| Thanks in advance
| 73
| Fred
| wb6iiq


Fred,

Go to http://www.rigpix.com/icom/icw32ae_manual.pdf

page 4 item 18 "call button"

but you will have to make a EU version out of your HT

try he http://www.kb2ljj.com/data/icom/ic-w32a.htm

Maybe anyone else here nows a better way

73 de
OE8SOQ
Hemut