Minitor V and Silent Scan

[xltbob]

Ok, I understand the use of the Silent Scan. I have a two freq M5 that I want to setup to alert on the same set of tones on both frequencies (City freq and County freq). I have done that, the M5 does alert on both freqs with the same tones.

However, when it alerts, the radio goes silent (unless other tones immediately follow my station tones). This prevents me from hearing the dispatch that initially setoff the tones. Is there another setting that I need to modify in the programming to keep it "open" in order to hear the audio?

I changed the "Reset Function" from Revert to Manual to see if this changes anything, but I have not had a chance to test this out yet.

Any ideas?? I can provide my codeplug and other data later today if anyone wishes to see it.

Thanks a bunch
bob

[chrismol1]

Does dispatch usually drop the carrier after tones goes out?

[xltbob]

Yes they do.

[chrismol1]

Thats the problem. Its the same with dispatchers around here. When they stop transmitting the pager reverts back to listen for the tones.

You will want to set it as Revert N for 15 seconds
That way, it will check to see is the carrier is dropped before resetting

[xltbob]

Ok, thanks for the info, but I do not have the Revert for N seconds since my M5 does not have the stored voice option. I saw a Reset Function "Revert", would that do the same thing in a way??

[chrismol1]

Its been a while since I had my Minitor V, so I might be a little rusty.


Does it have a Delay N? If it does, then set Delay N = 15 seconds and it should be all set

[xltbob]

From the help file, these are the options

Auto RESET: Resets the audio when carrier drops.
Delay N sec Auto Reset: Waits N seconds before checking carrier drop.
Revert SQ: Reverts to Monitor Mode after receiving a SelCall page.
Manual RESET: Resets the audio only when the Reset Switch is depressed.
Time-out RESET: Resets after a selected amount of time only.
Delay AUTO_N with Revert: Wait N seconds and then behave as monitor mode until the reset button is pushed.

Of course now, I can't remember exactly which function was unavailable since I do not have stored voice. It was one of the selections that involved N seconds. I'll have to wait to go home later and check.

[xltbob]

Originally Posted by xltbob

From the help file, these are the options

Auto RESET: Resets the audio when carrier drops.
Delay N sec Auto Reset: Waits N seconds before checking carrier drop.
Revert SQ: Reverts to Monitor Mode after receiving a SelCall page.
Manual RESET: Resets the audio only when the Reset Switch is depressed.
Time-out RESET: Resets after a selected amount of time only.
Delay AUTO_N with Revert: Wait N seconds and then behave as monitor mode until the reset button is pushed.

Of course now, I can't remember exactly which function was unavailable since I do not have stored voice. It was one of the selections that involved N seconds. I'll have to wait to go home later and check.

Ok, I'm home now and looking at the codeplug and options. Due to the lack of stored voice, I get a message for the "Delay N", Time-out Reset", and the "Delay AUTO_N with Revert". The message states "Programming a pager's Reset Function with time delay, while a pager does not support Stored Voice function, may cause interference. Do you want to continue programming?" Answering yes provides me the seconds field to adjust the delay/time-out.

I'll try the delay for 15 seconds and see what happens.

Thanks
bob

[xltbob]

Ok, the Delay for N seconds seems to work, I just don't care for the squelch sound. But oh well.

[SCAEMT2011]

I have just downloaded the programing for the Monitor 5, but I need a codeplug..can anyone help me out please..

[ramal121]

Originally Posted by xltbob

Ok, the Delay for N seconds seems to work, I just don't care for the squelch sound. But oh well.

Me neither, but hey you'll get the whole dispatch now!

[SteveC0625]

Originally Posted by SCAEMT2011

I have just downloaded the programing for the Monitor 5, but I need a codeplug..can anyone help me out please..

Look in the LIB folder. Should be a sample code plug there.

If not, try codeplugsuperstore.com

[yodermans]

The way I do the ones that are non stored voice for my dept. is i set it to manual reset. what that does is leaves the pager in monitor mode till press the rest button

[SteveC0625]

Originally Posted by SteveC0625

If not, try codeplugsuperstore.com

Correction (with apologies):

codeplugsupersite.com

[JimD88]

Could someone further explain the difference between these 2 settings for me ?

3 - Revert SQ: Reverts to Monitor Mode after receiving a SelCall page.
4 - Manual RESET: Resets the audio only when the Reset Switch is depressed.

They seem to be saying the same thing. I have non-stored voice.

[cwachs]

Originally Posted by xltbob

From the help file, these are the options

Auto RESET: Resets the audio when carrier drops.
Delay N sec Auto Reset: Waits N seconds before checking carrier drop.
Revert SQ: Reverts to Monitor Mode after receiving a SelCall page.
Manual RESET: Resets the audio only when the Reset Switch is depressed.
Time-out RESET: Resets after a selected amount of time only.
Delay AUTO_N with Revert: Wait N seconds and then behave as monitor mode until the reset button is pushed.

Of course now, I can't remember exactly which function was unavailable since I do not have stored voice. It was one of the selections that involved N seconds. I'll have to wait to go home later and check.

We are using a Minitor V as our source for our station alert speakers. Since our dispatch has a habit of killing carrier after tones and before they talk, we are set to a 60 second reset so we hear tones and dispatch before it silences. However, the squelch noise is killing us!

Anyone know of a setting to allow a timed reset but not have it open the squelch up? Seems like really old school radio programming to have it revert to an open squelch like that.