What can you say about squelch? This should take about 5 minutes, tops.

What? it’s almost 3 hours? 😱 Well, we do go deep, and we goof around some. But yeah, we even cut some stuff out to just end the show and get to dinner.

Before we dug into Squelch, we talked about this week’s MARS/Amateur Radio Interop activity, scheduled for Monday night through Saturday afternoon. It’s all on 60 meters, channel 1 (5330.5 kHz) with a nightly 10 PM nationwide broadcast (and some check-in stuff), and Noon Local Time ‘net’, Tuesday thru Saturday (so 4 regional ‘nets’. As I type this on Tuesday afternoon, we’ve had one ‘broadcast’ and one ‘net’. I’ll have some video and we’ll talk more on the next episode.

Then, it’s ‘all Squelch, all the time’. You might wish we had squelched ourselves a little earlier, but you do have playback control. Use it!

LINKS:

• We’ve talked about the Interop exercise before on the show:

  • Episode 275, October 30, 2016, MARS Attacks

  • Episode 285, December 10, 2016 A Very Bad Day

• And some Squelch articles:

  • Wikipedia article

    A Historical and Technical Overview of Tone Squelch Systems - Mike Morris WA6ILQ, RepeaterBuilder

    Understanding CTCSS and DCS - Video by Rohde & Schwarz

    Old school stuff: Squelch - WAYNE HOLMES