Hearing tones on Minitor pager

[vs1988]

I have a buddy who is with the local VFD, and they have Minitor IV pagers for toning out members. We got into a conversation about the pager, and he said that when the tones go out, he will hear the three tones along with the pager's beeps going off.

I know the FD tones out with Quick Call II, so they drop the A and B tones, and then a warble. If the pager was on standby mode, would you hear the A and B tones, or just the warble alert and the pager's beep alert?

[w4rez]

Originally Posted by vs1988

I have a buddy who is with the local VFD, and they have Minitor IV pagers for toning out members. We got into a conversation about the pager, and he said that when the tones go out, he will hear the three tones along with the pager's beeps going off.

I know the FD tones out with Quick Call II, so they drop the A and B tones, and then a warble. If the pager was on standby mode, would you hear the A and B tones, or just the warble alert and the pager's beep alert?

I can't speak for the Minitor IVs, but I used to carry a Minitor I years ago and when the pager was in standby mode all I heard was beep beep beep until the second tone finished.

It might be configurable on the newer pagers, though.

[rescuecomm]

I guess they could be double sending the two tone sequential to better wake people up. My Minitor V (and the previous Minitor IV) only sounds the beeps.

Bob

[Quickcall]

The county next to mine sends out there tone sets twice before announcing the call.

[kf4pep]

Originally Posted by vs1988

I have a buddy who is with the local VFD, and they have Minitor IV pagers for toning out members. We got into a conversation about the pager, and he said that when the tones go out, he will hear the three tones along with the pager's beeps going off.

I know the FD tones out with Quick Call II, so they drop the A and B tones, and then a warble. If the pager was on standby mode, would you hear the A and B tones, or just the warble alert and the pager's beep alert?

Odds are they are sending a second set of tones after the set that is setting his pager off. Some departments have multiple, for example 1 set for fiire, one for first responders, and set both when you need both to respond. If EMS is dispatched on the same freq he could be hearing thier tones as well.

It could also be they are setting them twice from multiple transmitter sites (they do here for some departments in areas hard to cover), but if that was the case his pager would actually alert twice.

[nfd_rescue]

Our dispatch center sends the tone set twice. The first time opens up the repeater, and the second set is just to get everybody's attention before they start talking.

[Grog]

Some also use a second set of tones for a station mounted siren.

[UNIT21]

Some Fire Depts Will Use Three Tones A-b For Department Members And B-c For Cheifs Or Officers. So When The B Tone Is Alerting You, The B Tones Is Someone Elses A Tone. By Doing That You Can Page Faster, But Sometimes You Will Miss Storm Watch Announcements Or Special Messages. This Also Makes County All Call's Hard, But People Deal With It. Otherwise, He Needs To Listen To Other Stations On Open Monitor, And Figure Out How They Page, It's Not That Hard To Figure Out.