Quick question

[FreeWillie]

I'm studying and plan to test on June 15th in Marlboro . Any way I was looking at some repeater listing in the 2M band and some of them gave a listing of DGTL. I assume that means digital tone. What's a DGTL tone? I can't find the answer anywhere. Thanks for helping a soon to be newbie HAM.

P.S. I am consistently scoring in the mid 90's on the practice Tech exam.

 

[cockpitbob]

I'm studying and plan to test on June 15th in Marlboro . Any way I was looking at some repeater listing in the 2M band and some of them gave a listing of DGTL. I assume that means digital tone. What's a DGTL tone? I can't find the answer anywhere. Thanks for helping a soon to be newbie HAM.

P.S. I am consistently scoring in the mid 90's on the practice Tech exam.

The DGTL is probably DCS (digital coded squelch). Same idea as the PL-tone but instead of your radio transmitting a specific tone to get the repeater to listen to you, it transmits a digital code.

If you are scoring in the 90s and still have 2 weeks to go, start studying for the General! In some ways it's easier than the Tech. If you pass the Tech it costs nothing to try the General test. A good number of people pass both in one sitting and on rare occasions someone will pass all 3 and walk out an Extra. Just think, you could walk out of there not confined to the short, line-of-sight wavelengths but be able to talk around the world.

 

[n1bsbri]

I'm studying and plan to test on June 15th in Marlboro . Any way I was looking at some repeater listing in the 2M band and some of them gave a listing of DGTL. I assume that means digital tone. What's a DGTL tone? I can't find the answer anywhere. Thanks for helping a soon to be newbie HAM.

P.S. I am consistently scoring in the mid 90's on the practice Tech exam.

I'm thinking that means digital modulation, like DMR. Good luck on your test.

 

[FreeWillie]

I'm thinking that means digital modulation, like DMR. Good luck on your test.

From the pool of 396 questions, you have answered 396 of them correctly. For best results, we recommend that you continue studying until you've seen all of the available questions. Once your practice exam scores are consistently above 85%, your chances of passing the actual exam are extremely good.

Your individual scoring history for this course:
t2010 2013-05-27 11:14:34 74.29%
t2010 2013-05-27 16:15:15 82.86%
t2010 2013-05-27 17:03:23 62.86% <----- Wife was yelling at me

t2010 2013-06-01 17:49:34 91.43% <----- Wife stopped yelling at me
t2010 2013-06-01 17:57:48 88.57%
t2010 2013-06-01 18:06:31 91.43%
t2010 2013-06-01 19:41:27 91.43%
t2010 2013-06-01 19:50:39 80.00%
t2010 2013-06-01 19:59:11 100.00%
t2010 2013-06-01 20:29:54 88.57%
t2010 2013-06-01 20:39:15 88.57%
t2010 2013-06-01 21:37:09 88.57%
t2010 2013-06-01 21:45:24 97.14%
t2010 2013-06-02 14:06:47 88.57%
t2010 2013-06-02 14:54:04 91.43%
t2010 2013-06-02 15:02:30 94.29%
t2010 2013-06-02 15:11:39 94.29%
t2010 2013-06-02 16:12:19 94.29%
t2010 2013-06-02 16:22:05 94.29%
t2010 2013-06-02 16:30:49 97.14%
t2010 2013-06-02 18:03:53 97.14%
t2010 2013-06-02 20:41:05 91.43%
t2010 2013-06-02 22:01:43 94.29%
t2010 2013-06-02 23:18:35 97.14%
t2010 2013-06-03 17:16:49 94.29%
t2010 2013-06-03 23:13:05 97.14%
t2010 2013-06-04 23:21:06 97.14%


Study, study, study!

 

[n1bsbri]

From the pool of 396 questions, you have answered 396 of them correctly. For best results, we recommend that you continue studying until you've seen all of the available questions. Once your practice exam scores are consistently above 85%, your chances of passing the actual exam are extremely good.

Your individual scoring history for this course:
t2010 2013-05-27 11:14:34 74.29%

... TLR ...

t2010 2013-06-04 23:21:06 97.14%


Study, study, study!

You're over-thinking it, man. Just take the test. Or better yet, spend some of your time looking over the Extra test. You can take all the tests in the same session, no extra charge. You might very well pass, even if you don't you will have gotten a look at the test. Makes it easier for next time.

 

[BostonVI]

You should do fine. I'm not sure if I got lucky or not, but the technicians exam I took a few weeks ago didn't have any of the more difficult questions from the practice tests (i.e. the math based problems).

 

[chaser001]

I'm studying and plan to test on June 15th in Marlboro . Any way I was looking at some repeater listing in the 2M band and some of them gave a listing of DGTL. I assume that means digital tone. What's a DGTL tone? I can't find the answer anywhere. Thanks for helping a soon to be newbie HAM.

P.S. I am consistently scoring in the mid 90's on the practice Tech exam.

You'll do fine on the tech test...start studying for the General.

I think the DGTL are D-Star repeaters, AFIK the only radios that are D-Star compatable right now are from ICom; but don't worry that won't be on the test.

 

[FreeWillie]

You'll do fine on the tech test...start studying for the General.

I think the DGTL are D-Star repeaters, AFIK the only radios that are D-Star compatable right now are from ICom; but don't worry that won't be on the test.

I wasn't worried about it being on the test. Several repeaters around me are DGTL and I was wondering what it meant since I haven't come across the term anywhere before and I've had absolutely no luck hearing any traffic on them.