East Aurora PD tone?

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• Jan 26, 2018

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Has anyone else noticed the solid tone after transmissions on East Aurora PD Dispatch? I noticed it about two months ago, but just got curious about it tonight. Its a solid, low pitched, short tone at the end of about 75% of transmissions. Its not specific user specific either. Its audible wether it be dispatch, portables, mobiles. Just wondering what purpose it would serve? A roger beep? I have no idea, and its slightly annoying.

 

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• Jan 27, 2018

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Got a clip of it? Might be guard tone.

 

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• Jan 27, 2018

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MDC-1200 tone for signalling.

 

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• Jan 27, 2018

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BTFire21 said:

MDC-1200 tone for signalling.

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defiantly not a MDC..... ill get a recording of it....

 

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• Jan 28, 2018

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Maybe they have their PL tone turned up too high.

 

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• Feb 1, 2018

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I was able to get some audio. A few days of nothing that I could hear, and then yesterday, out of no where, its back. Confirmed on both a scanner and a portable. Sorry about the poor quality and galloping....but its clearly audible at the end, after the MDC1200 signaling

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dkdpeyllcdojwdt/East Aurora Police Dispatch.m4a?dl=0

 

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• Feb 1, 2018

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Sounds almost like repeater courtesy tone

 

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• Feb 3, 2018

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Had a discussion about this with a friend of mine who lived outside East Aurora up on the hill @ 1600'. Apparently their is a hospital that uses 155.640 as a paging frequency in the area and that is the tone you are hearing. This makes sense since it is not always present.

 

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• Feb 3, 2018

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explainable....however....when you do a FCC License Search, nothing comes up for that frequency that would make sense. The closest thing license to EA is Onondaga County or Erie, PA

 

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• Feb 3, 2018

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It is in Canada I believe and with the inversions we get makes it an intermittent signal.