T.R.A.S.H. RADIO GROUP - BEEP / BEEBOOP
Whats that "sound" when someone unkeys a T.R.A.S.H. repeater ?
The BEEP is telling you someone on the LINK has unkeyed.
The BEEBOOP is telling you someone on the LOCAL REPEATER YOU ARE LISTENING TO has unkeyed.
The
sound is typically called a courtesy tone (or heaven forbid a Roger
Beep). The repeater is letting you know the last person using the
repeater has released their push-to-talk (PTT) button and their
transmission has ended. The repeater is now ready for the next person
to talk. You MUST WAIT for the beep (or beeboop) after someone
stops talking, otherwise you will TIME-OUT the repeater and it will stop
transmitting until the signal goes away for a couple of seconds (lack
of incoming signal resets the built-in 3 minute timer)
This is by design to prevent the repeater locking up in transmit forever
T.R.A.S.H. has a custom BEEP on every repeater to help signify that it is the T.R.A.S.H. system, and not some other repeater or system
No other amateur repeater or system in the world has OUR custom sounds!
Again, What is that sound? It's not an audio "tone" like other systems? It sounds like a little girl
The custom BEEP and BEEBOOP you hear is actually a text-to-speech file that "reads" a text file and "speaks" it out as audio
The reason for this is because we have integrated several digital modes (DMR & P25) into our system and they do not reproduce tones very well. Hence the need for text-to-speech where the repeater "speaks" the words BEEP, and BEEBOOP. Clever, huh?