UHF Selcall question

The selcall numbers you are seeing are for HFI may be mad but I'm not crazy
Hooroo
Ray

Andi,
Have to agree with the others Selcall is only HF, my UHF TX 3400 doesn't have a keypad. Keep the shiny side up

My phillips 620 & 650 UHFs do have selcall as do some unidens.
If the recieving radio is on the channel or scanning the frequency it will recieve and respond to a selcall.

UHF selcall has always been an option but never on our sets have we bothered. It has always been a pain in the proverbial that some kids like to be nisy about it and that you can't get through to some stations you needed. The mobile phone has bypassed all that need.

It can be heard as a sharp tuneful??? notes at the start of some braodcasts to open up the set to receive, otherwise the digital signal was deferred and not amplified. You always needed to advise on purchase so the selcalls could be aligned to be the same transmit/receive to your other sets.
Regards

JohnR - Not enough of the right travelling, some here..... some over there.......

Well, I have learned something new, I did'nt know that UHF had selcall as an option.
It seems hardly worth it, the range of UHF is, on average, only 12-15 km compared to 1000's km with HFKing Edward River, Mitchell Plateau
VKS-737, ch 2, sel. 2131

UHF selcall can be 4 or 5 digits (older models may be 4 digit). 5 digit radios can call 4 digit radios by adding 1 to the beginning of the number.

4 digit radios can only call 5 digit radios if the 5 digit selcall starts with 1 (and even then it isn't as reliable - may have to try more than once).

Andi, Bob is right. I have a TX3400 with Selcall.

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Rohan (Sydney - on the QLD side of the Harbour Bridge)