What models have Fire Tone outs?

[dgoodson]

Are there any consumer-grade scanners with fire tone out capability other than the Uniden models?

 

[bravo14]

I do not think any other scanner will do that yet. The only one does is Uniden.

 

[mkewman]

negative.

 

[b7spectra]

If you opt for commercial grade - i.e. Motorola - there are several that will "beep beep beep" when the right tone hits it.

 

[scannerrail]

Whats a fire tone out?

 

[landonjensen]

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17245

 

[TXFirefighter112]

Do any of them work with trunked systems? Someone once told me they wouldnt a few years ago, I forgot the reason why and it's possible something has changed so that it would work.

 

[mcema699]

Are you asking if the tone-out capable will do trunking, I don't own any, but I think one will.
As far as toning out over a trunked system, I believe FCC prohibits paging on 800. If I'm wrong, I know someone will correct me.
I also don't imagine you can trunk and monitor tone-outs at the same time. I think they are seperate by design
There is a sticky for the tone-out pagers here.
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17245

Maybe an admin will move this?

 

[N9JIG]

Do any of them work with trunked systems? Someone once told me they wouldnt a few years ago, I forgot the reason why and it's possible something has changed so that it would work.

The Uniden 330/396/96/BC15 series radios that handle Fire Toneouts do not support this in any trunking mode.

While some trunked systems do have toneouts, they are often just there to make the same sounds the firefighters are used to hearing on the radio prior to calls.

AFAIK there are no rules that prohibit toneouts on any public safety freq, including 800 MHz.