Emergency Tones?

[landonjensen]

Today when i was at my fire station, they had they regular radio over the PA system through the station, but when they got a call, there was kind of like the tv show Emergencys where it goes, duh do deeeh, and then they would say the call, but today at the station it did that noise, and then the beep beep beep, call info etc.You usually dont hear it over the radio though. What is this system for?

 

[car2back]

Does your FD use tone pagers? generally the tones would turn the pager on, then the Alert would get everyones attention so they'd know a call was coming out.

 

[FNNM376]

it is for exactly what it did..... station alerting...... what do you think it's for.... come on

 

[landonjensen]

haha i didnt know, gosh, im not a FF. :roll: :wink:

 

[landonjensen]

nope, they use radios, no pagers except the cheif and BC.

Does your FD use tone pagers? generally the tones would turn the
pager on, then the Alert would get everyones attention so they'd know a call was coming out.

 

[car2back]

hmm.. do you have more than one station in your city? maybe the pager tones were to alert a certain station?

 

[bwhite]

They still use tones to activate/open up the radio when it is a call for that station.
Yes, they can run the radio "open" which means they'll hear everything, however, you can be sure during the night the radio's broadcast only "opens up" for that station when the tones are broadcast first. Pagers work the same way as do the scanners that use tone activation.

 

[nfd_rescue]

Some Motorola radios have a tone alert on them that will make a "beep beep beep" sound similar to a pager. I know the Radius M216 and the HT1250 have this function, and I'm sure there are others as well.

 

[landonjensen]

3.....

hmm.. do you have more than one station in your city? maybe the pager tones were to alert a certain station?

 

[car2back]

Then what bwhite suggested is probably right on the $$

where are you from, Arcadia?

3.....

 

[landonjensen]

wait no, they beep beep beep is just a alert, and it is at the beggining of every call.

Some Motorola radios have a tone alert on them that will make a "beep beep beep" sound similar to a pager. I know the Radius M216 and the HT1250 have this function, and I'm sure there are others as well.

 

[landonjensen]

yeah.

Then what bwhite suggested is probably right on the $$

where are you from, Arcadia?

 

[car2back]

You might ask one of the FF's about it, if yo ucould figure out what tone was being used for what station, you could maybe program your HT to recieve them!

 

[landonjensen]

I was told a HT1000 couldnt accept them:

Station 105 85105 (5/6 Tone)
Station 106 85106 (5/6 Tone)
Station 107 85107 (5/6 Tone)

 

[landonjensen]

anyone know?

 

[vs1988]

I'm not sure if any Moto radios can take 5/6 tones. Most are 1+1 or 2+2.

After some further searching I see their old Keynote pagers can accept 5/6 tones.

 

[bwhite]

The beep, beep, beep stuff or something similar will preceed all dispatches everywhere, it basically says "Listen Up !!" so you can pick that radio traffic out of all the others.

 

[pfish]

Some station alerts can be set off and send a pre-recorded phrase/message...when our city got a new 800mhz TRS, Motorola upgraded the equipment in all the stations, along with a new alert system. When the tones go off, you hear "Attention, incoming alert." in a female voice. This is not part of the dispatch, so you wouldn't hear it on the RF side..

I suspect you could also use a set of tones as you described, landon.

 

[Rayjk110]

Yep, the Motorola QuickCall feature decode was programmed into the base RX radio.

This is the same way it is at our fire station. It is a CDM1250.

 

[brentoli]

How many trucks does the station have? If it has an engine and a truck, or engine and and ambulance, each truck might have its own tone.