Dispatching Help

[MikeEdgy]

Hello Everyone,
I am new here and needing some help. I operate an Event Medical company, we provide medical standby at events. I have BF-888s radios and a CF-19 laptop running windows 7. I have 2 questions, when at larger events we bring a dispatcher at a quite location in the event area to transmit call outs for our medics.

Question 1. Is there a way to record the conversations from the 888s radio?

Question 2. Is there a way to transmit a multie-tone alert tone either through the radios themselves or from the laptop through the radio?

 

[speedway_navigator]

I used a 2 conductor cable from the radio's earpiece jack to a laptop's mic jack and recorded audio with no problem. I was working for a 2 car racing team so I used a cable from each radio into a stereo plug so I could record one driver on the left channel and the other on the right.

I used audacity to record.
https://www.audacityteam.org/

You could create a tone or tones with audacity using the generate function, then play that file on the laptop with a cable from the speaker jack to a radio's mic jack. You would need to set the radio to VOX (if it has it) or manually key the radio.