Very well explained, thank you. After 8 years, still useful! 73.

Best CTCSS & DCS explained video I've seen. Simple but very informative.

This is a perfect explanation. All the other videos i found are missing the basic explanation of what Squelch is, before they go into all the tone settings. You have great teaching skills.

Just bought baofeng and you basically explained to total amateur all necessary about ctcss and dcs... Great mate! Thanks!

Great explanation of what 'privacy' really means. Always wondered how a transmission would be private short of encryption. Glad I found your video.

Was trying to figure out what CTCSS/dcs functions did. Your video explained it clearly. Thank you!

Thank you. I just purchased GMRS walkies for my son and I. I accidentally discovered how non-private those codes were. But I'm not sure I did a good job of explaining it to him. He will be watching this tomorrow. Huge thank you in explaining the repeater use for the tones.

Very well done. So true that nothing is private (and that actual range is usually 10% of the advertised range).

Thank You. I liked the part of how you explained the privacy code term that is used by marketing.

You should do more Instructional videos on VHF/UHF radio features & functions. Great explanation. Well spoken and presented. Thanks

Yep, just bought a radio with this on, the instructions makes no sense at all. You do, and made me realise that ill never use it. As you say.... Switch the channel. Thank you for time saving my life.

Nuisance Filter would have been a better term. I've always known and understood PL and DPL, but also assumed that most people had the wrong interpretation of what its function was. Glad you could explain it for everyone.

Wow. What a difference semantics can make. I really thought these codes provided some level of privacy, when in fact they are just specific filters. Dang. I appreciated the explanation of how they are useful on repeaters. VERY helpful.

This was a VERY good explanation. Thank you !

Great video! Answered all my questions.. Thanks for posting this

Awesome now this little YL will be all ears and transmitting like a trucker!

Wow thank you. Now I understand CTCSS and DCS.

Finally, this makes sense!!!! Thank you!

Straight to the point 👍🏼nice video.

Great explanation probably the best one on yt

Thanks a lot, very clear explanation!

Nice video, very enlightening. thx

Thanks for the bottom line explanation.

You are very good at explaining this things, can you help me with my 2 baofeng BF T-1? I allready programed it, it works but only within 100 meters between them, and it picks up a local repeater in my are from 3 km away! It doesn't make sense! I know repeaters are stronger then handheld radios, but I see a lot videos here on youtube of people doing range tests, and they work really good with 4 km between them or more. I really like this model would love to use it.

My TM-D710G can scan tones. I haven’t used this feature. Will it locate the required PL tone automatically for a given frequency?

Bam 💥 You made this so much clearer then I’ve ever heard Thank you for this video Wrka431

what if scrambler and ctcss are both switched on.. is that possible? nice video though...

Great explanation. Thank you.

Absolutely the best explanation and demonstration in the universe since the Big Bang 😂👍

Does having a heigher ctcss exaple 244.7 has any different or effect on transmission as if i was to use 67.0 or 103.5

The only time I've ever had a use for the "privacy codes" on my gmrs radio's is at festivals when don't necessarily want to hear everyone's transmission.

Thank you. I've been telling this to people on other videos.

Very clear, easy for beginners, PL also explained

Very helpful, thanks.

A lot of good info. But, what's the correct setting to configure my UV5R to be able to send and receive? Hopefully using CHIRP.

Note , a repeater does not receive on same freq it transmits on .

Can each sender/receiver only have a single CTS or DTS "tone" selected? Or do some radios allow you to set more than one tone for even more selectivity?

Well explained!

Whats the difference between T-Ctcss and R-Ctcss? or vice versa with DCS codes?

How do people on a locality "agree" which frequencies their respective groups should use? Do you just listen for a while on a particular band to check that there's no traffic?

The private codes Motorola uses has its sense of privacy, meaning that only those in the same frequency and code will be able to talk. It should be more used as private listening and no privacy at all for what you say. However the word PRIVACY (PRIVATE) implied by them is really misleading as you well explained. Thanks for the video.

Question: If I have my GMRS channel e.g., channel 23 set to a PL tone of 250.3 (or the designated repeater tone) and there is no local repeater, the radio will still transmit and receive in simplex?

So basically it's an ," Ignoring" sort of thing.....and what we can't hear can't hurt us.

Is the code waveform on through out the entire duration of the message? Or does it just start with the tone and listens until audio is gone?

So if people are using DCS can you hear the conversation if you have the R-DCS to off on your uv5r, and if you can do you just hear the digital code?

please correct me if wring ct 27 is 162.2 not 167.9

Most programming sites for handhelds demo a CTCS for transmit side only. If the repeater has PL in and out, shouldn’t you enter both? Or is there a reason to only have it on one side

Basically, CTCSS & DCS is best to be turned off?

PL - Private Line (Motorola) Channel Guard (GE Radios)

The thing that always kind of bothered me with the idea of using CTCSS/DCS is mainly that I could be stepping on someone else's conversation without even realizing it bc I'm not looking at the radio.

Specific frequency, say 462.68750, is to specific telephone number, say 212-123-4567, as CTCSS or DCS, say 67.0 or 023, is to the "extension" number - is that accurate to say? Meaning, you can dial in the frequency, but if it has that code and you don't know or include it, you won't be able to "talk" to the other end?

I work in the soundboard at my church, theirs a lot of witless microphones, and something’s on our radio interferes with other church equipments. What would be better in my situation, DCS, or CTCSS?

can you please make a video of what is CROSS, TSQL, and DTCS please?

Finally !!!!

can you tell me what's the real Difference, say we are at the camp ground chatting between family members say, is there any noticeable difference in using dcs or ctcss? I can't find any videos about the difference in using the two. . you did a great job of explaining it all though, very good and thank you, thumbs up!

The privacy is for the people not wanting to hear unwanted people's conversations

Um , bells and whistles .

It’s actually 2:54 lol

why don't they market it as a filter group or a squelch group? name it after what it actually does. not something that has nothing to do with what it does.

what GMRS channels and FRS channels can unlicensed users, use. like for family use. but also on high frequency? I just ordered Midland GXT1000VP4 and the users manual sais. The radio operates on GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) frequencies which require an FCC (Federal Communications Commission) license. You must be licensed prior to operating on channels 1 - 7 or 15 - 22, which comprise the GMRS channels of the radios. Serious penalties could result from unlicensed use of GMRS channels, in violation of FCC rules, as stipulated in the Communications Acts Sections 501 and 502 (amended). Please let me know, because I seen youtubers using channel 18 on GMRS and I highly doubt he had a FCC license because he probably would have mentioned it.

Ahhhh he said hamheld ooohhh he hungry buy him a subway haha

ANYWAY NO: ANYWAYS

Yup, just change channel.

Lke Number 265

Those handheld radios area a toy really. Good only really if you are working apart from others on a larger installation in the outdoors or going hiking etc. But otherwise turn one on at home and get ready to hear a heap of people 50 miles away with powerful transmitters who can't hear a thing you say back!

So, basically, CTCSS and DCS is absolute BS and don’t need to be used. Sounds like an absolute useless feature to me.