# TS-480 COR Pickup point

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**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/ts-480-cor-pickup-point/17839 "2020-11-18T16:14:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/ts-480-cor-pickup-point/17839/6 "2020-11-19T16:37:41Z")

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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.

GeorgeC W2DB  
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