bg5gnc
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It's made up of two tones that only firefighters seem to use. Like this:
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APX Does anyone know how to turn on the end tone that firefighters use?
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clbsquared
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That’s an MDC tone. You can set it as either “pre” or “post” alert. Unless you have a need for it, it’s just annoying.
Totally unnecessary unless the system requires unit identification. We hated it on pre. Asked that it be moved to post but was too expensive according to our contract provider to program each radio. I don’t know why anyone would want it unnecessarily. It’s VERY annoying.
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Just in case someone didn't mention it, MDC tones are really annoying!!! You won't make any new friends with it.
bg5gnc
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Please forgive me for not expressing myself clearly. What I said was the tone that appeared after the first minute in the video.
He is correct it's TPS, Digital signaling on an analog channel.
You would have to set up a personality for it, you do lose some functions when using that.
The help files in APX tells you how to do it
MTS2000des
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CopSounds (tm) and now FireSounds (tm)! Whackers on both disciplines can now make noises!
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There was a ham I heard who had quite the setup, a whackers delight, he had a couple radios - MDC, DTMF, MODAT, GESTAR, TPS, rotated between transmissions. You didn't know what your were going to hear next!
clbsquared
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Still annoying, unless you’re NYFD. And even then, I’m sure they get tired of hearing it. Squak, squak.
Reminds me of the seagulls in “Finding Nemo”.
“Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine”!!!
MDC and TPS aren't annoying to users with a proper commercial radio that knows how to mute it. Users should never hear it.
It's only people listening with scanners or ham radios that have this issue. In fact, if the channel has PL squelch and it's set up to drop PL, you don't hear it either. (Cue complaint about ham radios not knowing about PL turn-off bursts)
clbsquared
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I’m speaking strictly from a public safety users aspect. When you’re on scene with a dozen or more people using the radio. The MDC bursts become annoying. And THAT is a programming issue at the agency level.
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Why would you want to be more annoying on the radio than normal? Just don't do it.
MTS2000des
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I love the call out to whackerism a local repeater system has on their website:
Yeah – we turn it off on direct channels whenever possible. Even if the user has a display radio, and it's in their hand and not on their belt, they're usually busy looking somewhere more important when on-scene.
MTS2000des
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Every Bowelturd low audio road apple has them- the turdy audio is at like 1.2KHz deviation with a rolloff at around 1500KHz, but the stupid CB radio roger beep is what comes blasting through around 4KHz.
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I was on a job in the UK and one of our crew using a radio would always say "roger that!" at the end of most transmissions. Our UK counterparts would snicker because that means "F that!" in their area.Who is Roger and why is he always out?
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