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Minitor VI - paging newbie is stumped

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Hi all,

I am a compete novice on paging equipment and I have just had a Minitor VI dropped on my desk with an instruction... "Get it working". :0

Apparently, our client needs to alter the length of the tone on the Minitor, but has been unable to do this.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Marc
 
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ZS6HZ said:
Hi all,



I am a compete novice on paging equipment and I have just had a Minitor VI dropped on my desk with an instruction... "Get it working". :0



Apparently, our client needs to alter the length of the tone on the Minitor, but has been unable to do this.



Any ideas?



Regards,

Marc
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What tone do you want to modify?
 
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Hi SteveC0625,

Thanks for replying to my post. The client is using a Zetron 2000 series encoder, and can't get the Minitor VI to decode. They suspect that the tone lengths are either too short or too long for the pager to decode...

Does that make any sense?
 
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I've just had a thought.... I guess there is a possibility that the pager is faulty. Could I not simply program up say, a GP-380 a DP-4800 or similar to send two-tone to the pager? Is this an easy way to test the device?

I'm in totally foreign territory with this paging stuff... ;)
 
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ZS6HZ said:
Hi SteveC0625,

Thanks for replying to my post. The client is using a Zetron 2000 series encoder, and can't get the Minitor VI to decode. They suspect that the tone lengths are either too short or too long for the pager to decode...

Does that make any sense?
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Without knowing how the pager is programmed, I've got no baseline to start trouble shooting. Do we even know if the Zetron and the pager are both dealing with the same tone pair?

The Zetron 2000 should be fully capable of sending a standard Motorola Quik-Call tone pair with proper timing of Tone A for one second, no pause, and Tone B for 3 seconds. It also should be capable of sending Plectron and Fast Plectron.

Find out exactly what tone system and tone pair are being transmitted by the encoder.

ZS6HZ said:
I've just had a thought.... I guess there is a possibility that the pager is faulty. Could I not simply program up say, a GP-380 a DP-4800 or similar to send two-tone to the pager? Is this an easy way to test the device?

I'm in totally foreign territory with this paging stuff... ;)
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Yes, you could set up a radio on the bench to send out the same tones, but let's sort out the whole system and not just one part of it.

More likely that there is a discrepancy between the pager and the encoder.

I am sending you a PM with my email. Please send me a copy of the pager's current codeplug. After you confirm what the encoder is doing, we'll go from there.
 
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