From: patrick jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 21:51:55 PST
My friend's handheld yaesu ham rig (set to 'wide') with its 151.8 Hz
tone unsquelches my Racal TRA-967 and his PRC-25, but does not
unsquelch my PRC-77.
J wrote:
>
> I have personally tried communicating between a PRC-68 (wideband 15
> KHz) and a modern Yaesu VX-5R set to 5 KHz narrowband. It works,
> kinda-sorta. Here's what happens:
> When the narrowband radio transmits to the wideband radio, the
> received audio is weak. When the military wideband radio transmits to
> the narrowband receiver, it sounds loud and all garbled. The remedy is
> to talk softly into the military wideband radio. That's a workaround,
> but it does work sufficiently to allow communications between the old
> and new style stuff. Also, the 'new squelch' on the military radios is
> 150 Hz. The closest tone to that for the newer commercial radios is
> 151.8 (er, something right around there) and usually works ok.
> Jim
>
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