We have 5 analog paging sites here in my county so that's not a concern. I was curious if it's as loud as the Minitor, from what I can see it does not have a standard "beep" you find on the minitors
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I have both a Unication G5 and Minitor VI here and they are both load; however, the G5 is louder in my opinion than the Motorola VI. As far as the tones, yes, it has the standard Minitor style beep noise that you'd expect but you can also add a host of custom alert tones as well. The biggest thing that I noticed is the tone sampling time on the second tone in the two-tone page. The Motorola Minitor VI alerts almost immediately after sampling the second tone and the alert duration is as long as that tone (say 2 seconds) whereas the G5 sampling time is much longer, almost 1 to 1 1/2 seconds which limits how long the alert tone is. Now, this is adjustable; however, we are finding that some dispatches are cut off in the beginning; so we're still experimenting with this. What Unication engineers should do is fix the tone sampling; I mean if you listen in monitor mode, you'll hear just how long the G5 waits to activate it's alert from the second tone; crazy delayed in my opinion when compared to the gold standard Motorola Minitors... On a positive note, the receiver in the G5 blows away that in the Minitor VI as far as sensitivity; however, with additional sensitivity come poor selectivity; we've had several instances where the G5 falsed on another departments tones; we've never had this with ANY of a our Minitor VI pagers.
These are just my thoughts as we experiment with the Unication G5 when compared directly next to a Motorola Minitor VI and yes, before anyone comments, both pagers are running the latest firmware from their respective manufactures and we've been testing them in real world environment as well as lab environment with a General Dynamics Communication Service Monitor. The hopes is that later firmware will correct a few shortcomings of the G5; it's a good pager, but the problem with the discussions on RadioReference is that their users are looking at this device from a scanner perspective and not what it's original design was for, and that's a public-safety grade pager that give the added bonus of a scanner.