Originally Posted by KG4NEL
I know Baofengs do. As well as a part 90 emergency tone, which we are getting an ear full of on the 9100 reflector right now.
I know Baofengs do. As well as a part 90 emergency tone, which we are getting an ear full of on the 9100 reflector right now.
To be honest, I haven't a clue as to what that is. I always thought the emergency tone was "Somebody get their ass over here now!" :D
Jim
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Pretty much!
But the Baofengs have an emergency "siren" that part 90 users can activate. Someone was using it on the 9100 reflector earlier. It sounds like one of those personal alarm gadgets that the sell next to the pepper spray.
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That sounds like something that would get me to buy said pepper spray.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Let us not forget the 5-tone Mississippi Mule Farts which are popular with the 11M crowd...and whose users sometimes forget to turn off when they venture back onto 10M to resume their 10-10 numbers chasing.
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I honestly don't see a problem with roger beeps if you're doing simplex. It does designate end of transmission. But the idiots who leave them on when they switch to a repeater need to be shot.
I was guilty of that (On simplex) while learning the radio. Now, I've got it programmed for "Site Mode", so it only does an audible alarm, and not over RF.
If the roger beep was good enough for NASA then its good enough for me. IMO all this frowning on stuff is stupid. Ohhh, you shouldn't use a roger beep, you'll look like a retard. No wonder people double with each other all the time, because its never certain that you know when someone has finished speaking! Of course there's the callsigns and handovers etc, but I'd rather hear a quick beep than alpha bravo blah blah blah kilo nine blah blah blah zzzzzzz
I'm tempted to make a roger beep that quickly says DE MW0UZO K in fast CW.
Last edited by mw0uzo; 08-01-2013 at 10:31 AM.
I'm not sure how things are in the UK or Europe but in the US, most repeaters have a courtesy tone that sounds when the carrier drops on the input frequency. That makes roger beeps not only unnecessary, but annoying as well.
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