Need help programming IC-F50 radios...

[kickinkz]

One of our lieutenants on our fire department got a couple used ICOM IC-F50 radios from his old department a while back...I do all of the computer maintenance at our firehouse and he had issues trying to program the radios so he asked me to help. I'm able to set the buttons the way he wants and get the frequencies programmed, but he wants them to be set up as pagers also. Could someone explain to me how or where in the software those settings are? I have the tones, thought I had them set in the right spot, but when our test page goes off, I get nothing...his dad, who used to be the chief at his last FD had them programmed as pagers so it has to be possible...

Thanks!
Phil

[grumps96]

Hi Brother, In the software along the top find the model section, you have to be in LMR (2 Tone) If you were not in that mode when you programed the frequencies then you will have to start all over again! Then you have two places to enter data, one is on the individual channel, and the other is further down in 2 tone.
From there I hope you can figure it out, because as far as the paging entry I really can't tell you aymore then I have.

[kickinkz]

I'll give it a shot, thanks for the help!

If anyone knows what do after this point, please, don't hesitate to post!

Thanks!
Phil

[stevelton]

If you already know the A tone and B Tone, then enter that information in the "2 Tone" folder in the software.

Give it a name, and set that tone set to have the type of beep you what (PiPi, or PiPo/R) etc.and how ofter you want the beep to repeat.

Once you have the tones set in the 2 Tone folder, then go back to your MR Channel folder, and find the channel you want to add the tone alert to.

On the line with the channel you want, scroll over to the right and you will see where you can add a check mark on the 2-tone RX column for the tone set you want.

Just to the left of the 2-tone RX field, you will see the column labeled CH Mute. This is so you can set the channel to receive all audio all the time ( OR ), or set it to stay quiet until the matching tone set is transmitted on the channel , and then the mute will release and you can hear the message being paged (AND).

If you want the radio to reset itself after a certain period of time, in the common folder find the Auto reset Timer A, and change that timer to whatever you want (default is 30 seconds).
Back in the memory channel, change the column there to be set on Timer A.

If you dont want the radio to reset, then just leave that setting as Timer B.

Hope tat makes sence.
Steven

[kickinkz]

That helps a lot...can you pm me your email so I can send you a screenshot of what I have? There's a couple things you mention that I don't have listed under the software...

Thanks!
Phil

[rdale]

I don't have the "CH MUTE" you talk about but it is muting anyways.

My issue is group tones. Here is my department I'm listening for

634.5 / 591.1 St 1
669.9 / 569.1 St 2
569.1 long tone - All Call

All I want is the allcall 569.1 but I've tried every which way and it keeps alerting for every toneout, as other departments use 569.1 as the A tone in their two-tone combo. How can I set it to only get the 569.1 long tone by itself?

- Rob

[stevelton]

Originally Posted by rdale

I don't have the "CH MUTE" you talk about but it is muting anyways.

My issue is group tones. Here is my department I'm listening for

634.5 / 591.1 St 1
669.9 / 569.1 St 2
569.1 long tone - All Call

All I want is the allcall 569.1 but I've tried every which way and it keeps alerting for every toneout, as other departments use 569.1 as the A tone in their two-tone combo. How can I set it to only get the 569.1 long tone by itself?

- Rob

If you only want to be alerted for just those 2 fire stations, then program a tone set for each station with the tones you have. The channel on your radio can be set to listen for multiple tone sets, so if either one of those stations get toned out, then the radio will only alert for them. That way you can forget about the Group tone, and the radio wont go off for any other station using the 569.1 anywhere in their tone set.

You will also need the timing of each tone. Is the 669.9 / 569.1 a 1 second/3 second set, or 2 second/ 1 second?
You'll need those times. I guess you could get the time of the long tone 569.1, and just set that as a 2-tone, just put the 569.1 in both the 1st tone and 2nd tone spots.

As for the Ch Mute, you may have an older firmware.

Steven

[rdale]

The 2-tones are 1/3, I needed to NOT hear those and only hear the 5-sec allcall. But if I'm reading you right, I just need to enter 569.1 for A/B and then set each to 2 seconds?

[nate1992]

Would CH inhibit be the same as the CH Mute??

[rdale]

No, inhibit completely skips that channel as if it doesn't exist.

[nate1992]

OH! hmmm thanks!

[nate1992]

Okay i got the 2 tones to work on my radio, But i wont to program the same Frequency with out the 2 tones so i can still here other departments. is it possible to set it to where it will trigger the frequency with the 2 tones if the same frequency with out the tones is programmed in.
Note : this is on a Icom ic-f11

[rdale]

For the -F50 it is by programming it in twice. I don't know about the 11.

[nate1992]

well that is what i did was programmed it twice & it semis to work

[nate1992]

If any one happens to have a programming Manuel for the ic-f11 i would really love to have it!

[rdale]

You might post a new thread, this one is for the F50 so nobody would be looking for F11 here.

[nate1992]

true & i found it any way! but thanks!

[svfd17]

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I have an f60 and i it works fine but i want to program it with the mdc 1200 chirp but when i select mdc and put the frequencies in it says the radio is not mdc capable. if anyone knows how to program it this way it would be a big help