Skylar I checked the TS-480 a few moments ago. Pin 6 on the Data connector does follow the carrier squelch but NOT PL decode. So if in PL decode mode (“CT”) it will change state with just a carrier. I think I went over this with a guy using a TS2000 a month or so back.
So if carrier squelch works for you its ok, and it needs a pull up resistor. See,s to be open collector output. I did pull up to +5V with 10K. The manual notes to keep the pull up voltage below 7V but I figure 5 is safer.
And this holds for both 6 meters and 10 meters. But to me, using this for remote base I don’t se it working out well. You’d get keyups from carrier but no audio unless they had PL on their transmit signal on the right tone.
So I looked to see if there is a discriminator or wideband out that can be used in Asterisk usbradio to decode PL but nope its speaker audio. You can see a very small amount of tone coming through but I’m talking tone level down maybe 30 db from peak audio, that won’t decode well.
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