996t Fire Tone Out

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sfd119

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It's useful if you are a FireFighter/EMT. The scanner acts as a pager when your department/agency gets paged out.
 

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When I had my 996 at the time. I used it for the city and 2 stations around me and put it on stand by so don't have to hear the chatter at night.
 

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In addition, we have some FTO information in our wiki - more specifically, look at the Missouri collaboration page, then drill down to the counties/communities you want to check. We don't have every tone everywhere, but it might be a place to start.

Anything in red is a link that is not yet defined.

You might also be a bit more specific about which departments/areas you need - maybe someone in the Missouri forum will have them already, and they simply haven't added them to the wiki

73 Mike
 

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The older T series doesn't have that ability AFAIK. The newer XT series scanners do.

However you are not without resources. This wiki article lists, at the bottom, several utilities - some free, others not - that will do the job (remember anything in blue - both here and in our wiki - is a link).

Fire Tone Out - The RadioReference Wiki

All that would be required, apart from the software, is a nice clean connection from the soundcard to the 996t. The article above has a link to another article that discusses this in detail.

In addition, I mentioned looking at the Missouri collaboration page and, lastly, the Missouri forum here at RR in an earlier message in this thread.

73 Mike
 

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Checked the Missouri page and the Fire Tone Out wiki, found nothing. I guess what I'm looking for is just maybe a chart that lists the different tones and maybe a sound clip?
 
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