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CW ident while x-mitting?

Interesting....
Which repeater is it? Wouldn't happen to be the 147.435 machine, would it?
All of the Amateur repeater controllers I'm aware of allow you to do a CW ID *of the repeater*, but they all wait until the current user unkeys to broadcast it.
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I'm not telling... LOL

This isn't the repeater... This is the individual's radio....

If you did tell, someone who knows CW could listen for the individual in question and determine if the CW was the repeater callsign or the individual's callsign or some random message.

Just because some of us didn't pass a code test to get our tickets doesn't mean we don't know CW.

Yep, there's two groups....."No Code" and "Know Code".
I won't get into a discussion of either, as there's still a lot of bad feelings about it.
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reply to neonhomer
Maybe this

»www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index···2.0;wap2
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reply to DrStrange
Yes, it is 435..

I'm not bashing anyone who does or doesn't know code. Me personally, I *want* to learn code. Just can't find the time...

reply to drjim
I don't get involved in 'know code' vs. 'no code' any more than I already am.

I studied 40 years ago and never got around to taking the test.
By the time I got around to it [2010], code was no longer required.

I can copy CW at about 10-13WPM on a good day, maybe 5-7WPM on a bad day. I might have been able to pull off 20 with a lot of practice if I had had to. Maybe one of these days I'll work on it, just so I can say I could have passed Extra with the original code requirement.

reply to neonhomer
Thanks for the info.

I'll have a listen to that .435 machine one of these days and see what I hear.

Have you (or anyone else) ever listened to 435 before? If you haven't, be prepared to hear stuff you have never heard before on amateur frequencies. Language, jamming... a massive part 97 violation.

I listen because the fighting and other bull is funny... and a good example of what NOT to do on amateur radio!

I can pick up the repeater here in Ventura on my HT. I tune in once in a while. Funny to hear them fight with each other.
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reply to neonhomer
I listened to 435 on a daily basis back in the early 90's. At times it was hilariously funny, and at other times it was a cesspool of Amateur radio's worst.
It's been cleaned up, and gone through several owners, since then, and I haven't listened to it lately.
At one time, 435 had an Arbitron rating higher than several of L.A.'s bigger radio stations.
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reply to Postal
Same here... I occasionally talk to the repeater owner and a couple of others through Facebook... (KE6RRI is the owner... I also talk to N6BHU on occasion.) RRI has cleaned it up a little, but it's still "good ole 435".

A bit OT - I like it how there are certain people on there who blatantly disregard Part 97 and the FCC, but when it plays into their advantage, the certain ones start hollering "I'm writing Laura Smith." or "The FCC is listening..."

Still funny though...
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I'm a regular listener of 435 also. I also chat with Christina on fb from time to time. I used to get on the repeater with echolink back before it got took down. The history of that repeater is something else. I usually have it running here in the background most evenings. Love the cast of characters out there. Just glad I'm not the one that has to worry about the FCC and complaints.

If you listened recently, IIRC, the operator I am referring to is Darrin Jones. I think he is the one I hear that from.

I was hoping if I listened to code practice mp3's in my sleep, I'lll wake up one day knowing code... LOL

I think what you are hearing is the remote radio IDing while he is transmitting. There was talk on the repeater quite awhile back that if you are using a remote to get into the repeater they want it to id. I don't think very many do this though .
That way they can tell if someone has hacked into the remote and using it to jam and other nonsense. I don't know code myself so i wish i could tell you what it is saying. I promised myself when i got my license i would learn code and one day i will. Just haven't found the time to concentrate on learning it!

reply to neonhomer
Much to my surprise, the cheap little Baofeng UV-5R HT that I recently picked up at a flea market has a feature called PTT-ID which sends your call in morse code (in the background) when you press the PTT to transmit. It can be programmed to repeat your call when you unkey. Maybe his rig has a similar feature?
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Really... All mine does when I turn on PTTID is spit out DTMF...

The manual leaves something to be desired...

Yes, the manual is more of a curiosity than a help. I think you are correct. Looking at the Baofeng software (which I don't use) it looks like PTT-ID is in the DTMF subset of commands. I don't see any field for entering a call sign, and the manual's description of the "feature" is not very clear, so...

Thanks for clarifying this, um... feature!
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reply to drjim