UHF Selcall question
Submitted: Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:36
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Andi
I notice many members post their UHF freq. and selcall. Two questions
1) Do you need to have all parties (within range ) on the same Freq. I.E Ch 10 or 18 or wahtever to recieve Selcalls?
2)The selcall numbers the members are listing are 4 digit, yet my 3 week old GME 4400 is 5 digit. Whats that about?
Thanks in advance
Andi.
Reply By: Mad Dog Morgan (Vic) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:51
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:51
The selcall numbers you are seeing are for HFI may be mad but I'm not crazy
Hooroo
Ray
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Follow Up By: Member - George (WA) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 14:05
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 14:05
Yes all parties have to be on the same Channel/Frequency.
The selcall numberis for
HF radio's
As far as I know, UHF radios do not have selcall facilities, but I may be wrong.
Technology changes so quicklyKing Edward River,
Mitchell Plateau
VKS-737, ch 2, sel. 2131
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Follow Up By: Member - Nigel (QLD) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 17:49
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 17:49
yep - you are wrong :)
UHF CB has selcall - it is a much shorter selcall than what is used on HF and can be 4 or 5 digits on UHF (add a 1 to the front of a 4 digit selcall when calling from a 5 digit radio).
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Reply By: Martyn (WA) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 14:25
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 14:25
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
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 18:13
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 18:13
Martyn,
Your TX3400 does have Selcall, the book of destructions will tell you how to set it up. But you do need the selcall numbers of other GME's to use it to its full advantage.
We use selcall on the station, to call other mobiles, if they aren't immediately available. The Tx radio leaves its own selcall# displayed on Rx radio, plus having an alarm beeping every 3 seconds. Saves a lot of frustating calls when no one is near the radio.
hooroo...
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Follow Up By: Martyn (WA) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 22:43
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 22:43
Bob,
Amazing, thanks for that I've never used Selcall in conjunction with UHF only ever HF, you live and learn, Thanks again.Keep the shiny side up
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Reply By: lindsay - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 14:56
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 14:56
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.
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Reply By: Member - JohnR - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 15:01
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 15:01
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.......
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Reply By: Member - George (WA) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 15:50
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 15:50
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
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Follow Up By: Member - Nigel (QLD) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 17:54
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 17:54
it's very much worth it - I can call home from the next town (some 100km away) by using a repeater. We leave the home set in selcall scan and that way can pickup calls from 3 different repeaters depending on what direction the mobile is. Also saves listening to the ever increasing dribble that cheap handhelds are bringing to UHF CB.
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Follow Up By: Steve L - Monday, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:27
Monday, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:27
Sorry, don't agree with the 12-15km average range you mention - except for extremely rugged terrain, I've never had a problem in 5 years of achieving over 30-40km any time I use the UHF.
Still doesn't compare to HF, but more than double what was quoted...
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Reply By: Member - Nigel (QLD) - Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 18:08
Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 at 18:08
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).
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Reply By: Member - Rohan K - Monday, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:18
Monday, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:18
Andi, Bob is right. I have a TX3400 with Selcall.
For answers to all your UHF questions, go here:
ACBROSmile, you're on ExplorOz
Rohan (
Sydney - on the QLD side of the Harbour Bridge)
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