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> Do you see an icon that appears on the LCD display that shows 'CG' ?It's on purpose, because it's virtually never someone has encode only in
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\n> If you do see CG on the LCD in receive then hold the monitor button,
\n> the small blue button below the PTT, in for a few seconds until CG
\n> goes away on the display and then try transmitting again and see if
\n> you can hear the repeater coming back.
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\n> If this works then you probably have a transmit and receive CTCSS
\n> tone enabled, GE calls this channel guard CG.
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\n> If you see this icon then you probably have the same receive CTCSS
\n> tone enabled because the MPA software does this automatically without
\n> the programmers intervention when a transmit tone is enabled.
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\n> This is my only major complaint with GE software, that all software
\n> versions enable a receive tone if you have a transmit tone enabled,
\n> on purpose or by mistake.
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