[arm-allstar] ctcss Tone Functionality

[Michael Lee Lockwood]

Question regarding PL Tones:

I’m using the RPi/URI with DSP to encode and decode ctcss tones on my node repeaters.

What I’ve found is that when using secondary encode/decode tones (not the default tone) the repeater tail and courtesy tones aren’t following the ctcss tone they originated with. For example:

Default tone is: 151.4
Additional ctcss encode/decode tone is: 146.2

When anyone keys up on 146.2, other users can hear if their receive ctcss tone is programmed to 146.2 DURING the transmission. However, as soon as they dekey, the tone changes to 151.4 immediately for the repeater tail and courtesy tone. So the folks using 146.2 never hear the tail or courtesy tone.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this how it’s supposed to function?

 Additionally, is it possible to allow only certain ctcss tones to broadcast over the linked nodes? Whereas other ctcss tones in usbradio.conf would only key the local repeater?

For example:

151.4 Only keys local repeater
71.9 Keys local repeater and linked node repeaters