[App_rpt-users] DTMF number 3 Problem

[Steve Agee]

I too had this issue with a Wouxun at a repeater site and was scratching my 
head, until WB5UGT happened to look down at the deviation meter on my 
service monitor and told me to look for myself. Sure enough, upon pressing a 
DTMF key, the deviation meter shot to the far right and hit the pin on the 6 
KHz scale. So, the first few milliseconds of DTMF blow out of the pass band, 
before calming down and stabilizing. Several other hand helds worked fine 
with no issues.

N5ZUA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle at bdboyle.com>
To: "George Zolla" <gazolla at san.rr.com>
Cc: "John Wheatly" <taoswheat at gmail.com>; "Chris Drummond" 
<kc5izr at gmail.com>; <app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org>; "Wally Baker" 
<wallyb1511 at msn.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] DTMF number 3 Problem


> wouxuns are kind of notorious for poor DTMF encoding, levels, etc.  for 
> the price, kind of to be expected.  YGWYPF.
>
> i'm thinking the motos were set up to put cor, etc out in hardware. your 
> changes told asterisk to ignore the hardware signals.  put them back the 
> way they were working before you fiddled with them, and i'm thinking 
> you'll be fine, cheap chinese HTs notwithstanding.
>
> --
> Bryan
> Sent from my iPhone 5...small
> keyboard, big fingers...please
> forgive misspellings...
>
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2013, at 11:42, George Zolla <gazolla at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> We recently installed AllStar on an old PC. At present we have a 10 year 
>> old Motorola 2M Radius radio connected to the AllStar PC via a custom 
>> cable and URI. The radio was tuned by a professional with tuning 
>> equipment according to the AllStar instructions. We can RX well and can 
>> TX voice well on all radios. Now the problem. Some radios (Yaesu & Icon) 
>> can send any DTMF number combination and works flawlessly. However some 
>> other radios like the Wouxun can send any number but the number "3" key 
>> successfully.  For instance *81 gives us the time successfully but 3 used 
>> in any string doesn't work. I have modified only two usbradio.conf 
>> settings:
>>
>> carrierfrom = usbinvert
>> ctcssfrom = no
>>
>> When I change to:
>>
>> ctcssfrom = dsp
>>
>> we can neither TX or RX.
>>
>> Is there another setting that might help in the usbrdio.conf or any other 
>> config file? Can anyone help? It is a young ARC and most members use a 
>> Wouxon HT.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> George