I'm looking at buying a fire/ems pager but have no experience with them, only scanners. Is the Minitor V the best? Where should I buy it? Is it hard to program? All the help would be appreciated.
I'm looking at buying a fire/ems pager but have no experience with them, only scanners. Is the Minitor V the best? Where should I buy it? Is it hard to program? All the help would be appreciated.
Back when we used to use those type of pagers we had to send them to our dispatch center to have them programmed. It has been 10 years since I have worn that kind of fire pager so things may have changed.
Do you belong to a fire departemt? If not why do you want one? You may be able to purchase one but getting programmed may be hard if not affilitated with anyone. You may not find any one who can if no one in your area uses that kind of paging.
I find that hard to believe if anyone won't program it for him if he's not affiliated with any dept. it's just a receiver, and any authorized Motorola dealer can program it.
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I'm looking at buying a fire/ems pager but have no experience with them, only scanners. Is the Minitor V the best? Where should I buy it? Is it hard to program? All the help would be appreciated.
its no big deal
I bought a Minitor V pager when they came out and no I'm not with the FD.
I bought the programming cradle, cables myself and the software to program the Minitor V, which software is free by the way on the moto site
I used a scanner got the tone outs and loaded the thing to tone out on any FD and EMS within 10 miles
Best feature stored voice! I never turned off my pager and left it on 24/7 so it recorded every call I never missed anything, if I went around town it was in my pocket set to vibrate only and it would record the call so I could listen later I could later turn it on to music alerts when a call is dspatched the same thing a FF would hear. Theres many different programmable music alerts you can set to different departments
The pager fits good in a pocket and controls are very easy to operate
The li-ion battery will last all day
why, what else do I need to hear ? I'm not with the FD !Unless these new pagers are different, it only records the first 30 seconds, you don't hear anything else that is happening in the call. What good is that?
coming from the opinion that if your not with the FD you dont need a pager, why, what else do I need to hear ? I'm not with the FD !
come on now at least this isnt another post asking to program two way radio to police channel
theres plenty of other wannabe whackers to go play pretend FF or medic with a scanner
Not sure if you know how pagers work, but you can hear all transmissions after the tone out if you want.
Yea some places are crazy different- the agency around here uses a channel dedicated to paging
I dont need to monitor fireground or anything after what I know occurred, I leave that up to heros so they can monitor where they need to go maybe call the Chief on fireground as an auxiliary FF with their own purchased bunker gear once they arrive scene lol
This is getting too funny, seriously, why does every thread on here turn into this ? the op just wanted a pager :roll:
Sorry its getting too funny for you, just trying to understand, that's all. So you only want to know what originally happened? Not the outcome? Sounds a little odd but, hey if that is all you care about then ok.
I don't understand why someone would pay over $350 dollars (new) for a Minitor V when you can get a nice portable scanner that can do SOOOO much for for $120.