Charles,
Point taken and good job on starting the coordination process. I will insert a table here and if anyone wants to reserve a frequency so they can start fiddling around with their radio sooner rather than later, please email or call me and I will update the table with your choices from the table below:
There are lots of choices on the CTCSS codes. Trying to keep it simple for everyone I prepopulated the table with some from The Ham Radio School piece Get the Right Signal Tone. Key is do not use one of the codes already taken by someone else and do not use 114.8 as that is the one used by our UHF repeater.
So, who is interested but doesn’t know where to start? Here is a really nice write up – Cross-Band Repeat with the Yaesu FTM-400XDR – that shows how to do it with a Yaesu FTM-400. If someone wants to find something similar for other makes and/or models, please do. Then send it to me and I will add it here if you don’t know how.
In the case of the link to the FTM-400 write up above, you can read the whole thing or just scroll down until you see the picture of the radio head. The most important tip I want to emphasize here is that you must unplug your microphone. In crossband function the FTM-400 goes into “hot mic” mode. So please do not overlook that very important step.
73
Phillip Beall (W5EBC)
