Ht1250

[Devils4121]

I have a HT1250. I am looking to put my first aid squad tones in it, but we have two diffrent sets we have one for ambulance calls and one set for rescue truck calls. I want both tones as one Pager channel, how would i do this because they never go off together, can i just put them in as ABCD or no?


Thanks
Justin

[kc8svs]

Justin,

As far as I know (am not completely familiar with QC2) you may have to put them into two seperate channels. As the radio reads A, and then reads B quickly and alerts. I think for ABCD it would need to read ABC, and then quickly read D and alert. So, you would only get one alert.

I hope you get what I mean. I hope that someone else with Quick Call knowledge can chime in for you.

[Devilz311]

You can have them both alert on one channel. If all four tones are different, you can set the alerting for AB & CD.

There's a bunch of different combos, but the main answer to the question is Yes, you can have different tone combos alert on the same channel.

[kc8svs]

Thanks for the info! Now we both know!

Thanks again!

[DPapay]

Looking at the quickcall screen on cps version 6.10.04, here are the choices of call formats;
A-B
A-B/A-C
A-B/C-B
A-B/Long B
A-B/Long C
A-B/A-C/Long C
A-B/Long B/Long C
A-B/A-C/Long B/Long C
A-B/A-D/C-D
A-B/C-D

[topcop1833]

Originally Posted by DPapay

Looking at the quickcall screen on cps version 6.10.04, here are the choices of call formats;
A-B
A-B/A-C
A-B/C-B
A-B/Long B
A-B/Long C
A-B/A-C/Long C
A-B/Long B/Long C
A-B/A-C/Long B/Long C
A-B/A-D/C-D
A-B/C-D

I hate to sound silly, but can anyone explain what each of those settings do? for example im guessing A-B = alert if tone A and B are met. And if a previous post is correct, AB/CD = alert if A and B or C and D are met. I've actually been looking for an explantion for quite some time by doing searches on here and batlabs.

thanks

[C138Kaysone]

Originally Posted by topcop1833

I hate to sound silly, but can anyone explain what each of those settings do? for example im guessing A-B = alert if tone A and B are met. And if a previous post is correct, AB/CD = alert if A and B or C and D are met. I've actually been looking for an explantion for quite some time by doing searches on here and batlabs.

thanks

A-B would be your QC tones and C D would be the second tones for your rescue truck... A-B ambulance, C-D rescue truck, once dispatch plays those pretty tones, it will activate and make your pager go off like crazy and your walkie making a beep beep noise. Thats what i have on my GP300 since i live in the city and rescue base is right around the corner.

I hope that explains it unless its backwards

[KC2OBW]

you can have it set up as A B C for instance the county I live in all the departments have a different A tone, one dept here in dutchess county New Hamburgh there A tone is 1403, and there b and c tones are different for Firematic it would be A 1403 and B 799, and EMS/ manpower would be A 1403 and C 1180 or 1182, usally a dept will have a A tone that they would use on all tone pairs the difference is weather it be man power, ems, firematic the b or c tone will be different but the A tone will always be the same.

[C138Kaysone]

Would my radio still go off if they play the AB tone or would it need to go through the whole sequence?

I just put my city fire pager on as A B and medic 1 as B C... so its just A-B/C-B

[lieut25]

Originally Posted by Devils4121

I have a HT1250. I am looking to put my first aid squad tones in it, but we have two diffrent sets we have one for ambulance calls and one set for rescue truck calls. I want both tones as one Pager channel, how would i do this because they never go off together, can i just put them in as ABCD or no?


Thanks
Justin

Can you list your tones so we can see if this can be done?

You may have the same A tone but diffrent B,C tones to activate your pager.

[CommJunkie]

Originally Posted by topcop1833

I hate to sound silly, but can anyone explain what each of those settings do? for example im guessing A-B = alert if tone A and B are met. And if a previous post is correct, AB/CD = alert if A and B or C and D are met. I've actually been looking for an explantion for quite some time by doing searches on here and batlabs.

thanks

I'm going to attempt to explain this. This is one of those things, for me, that are easily understood but hard to explain.

A-B = Tones A & B are met
A-B/A-C = Tones A & B OR Tones A & C are met
A-B/C-B = Tones A & B OR Tones C & B are met
A-B/Long B = Tones A & B are met OR Long Tone B is met
A-B/Long C = Tones A & B are met OR Long Tone C is met
A-B/A-C/Long C = Tones A & B are met OR Tones A & C are met OR Long Tone C is met
A-B/Long B/Long C = Tones A & B are met OR Long Tone B is met OR Long Tone C is met
A-B/A-C/Long B/Long C = Tones A & B are met OR Tones A & C are met OR Long Tone B is met OR Long Tone C is met
A-B/A-D/C-D = Tones A & B are met OR Tones A & D are met OR Tones C & D are met
A-B/C-D = Tones A & B are met OR Tones C & D are met

A typical tone-out system is 1 second Tone A followed by 3 second Tone B.
Long tones are 8 seconds long, and are only 1 tone.
The tones have to match in order; so for example, setting your Quick Call for A-C means the tones need to match in the order A first, and C second.
A-B/C-B would be for a common B tone. This is what I use for my station's fire and EMS tones. This will match both the A & B tone and the C & B tone in those orders.

Let's say, for example, your Fire tones are 100.0 and 200.0, and they are set off in that order. 100.0 would be tone A, and 200.0 would be tone B. Now let's take that further and say your Ambulance tones are 150.0 and 200.0 Since the 200.0 is in both of your tone sets, it can be used as the "common" tone. You would select "A-B/C-B" and 150.0 would be used as the C tone. Putting in the Quick Call would look like this:
A = 100.0
B = 200.0
C = 150.0
This will now alert your radio for both sets of tones.

I hope this kinda helps. If not, send me a PM and I'll try to explain further.