He causes me to have belly laughs with his sarcasm!
What’s the purpose of using the CTCSS tone if you want to have an open channel?
to stop the local chit chat being heard - only people using the calling channel will be heard, and not the local kids, shops or club groups who will transmit on any empty channel
…and you’d be wrong. Many repeaters traditionally have the “travel tone” set and on “channel 20”
As others have mentioned Ch 20 is the defacto nationwide calling frequency for GMRS… The reason Ch 19 would not work is because it’s use is prohibited within a certain proximity to the Canadian border.
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