[FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Transition to New Frequencies

[Blaine Brooks]

> Should prove to be interesting as far as how often P25/digital will be used 
> versus NFM.
> Also of course will be the active monitoring challenge to determine which 
> repeater site has a specific CTCSS tone assigned for that site.  Will CAP 
> opted to use a different CTCSS input tone than the output tone for each 
> repeater?  Will the common CTCSS 100.0 still be in use or will that change?

If CAP does transition to NFM P25 digital as
the norm, CTCSS will not be used. NAC codes will
be used for repeater/direct channel access. These
codes will be harder to determine, and will be of no
use to the average scanner listener unless they are
lucky enough to have a Motorola Astro base unit or
handheld for monitoring purposes. Most of us with
digital capable scanners should have no problems
decoding the transmissions though, as long as they
are not encrypted.

-- 
Blaine Brooks / Flower Mound,TX USA
http://mysite.verizon.net/resrjsf6/