FTO's for TV Fire and Rescue(or other local departments)?

[eahuntley]

I was just playing around with my 396t and I realized I've never had a Tone-out programmed into it. I've been trying to find one listed somewhere, but having no luck. If anyone can help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[DickH]

I was just playing around with my 396t and I realized I've never had a Tone-out programmed into it. I've been trying to find one listed somewhere, but having no luck. If anyone can help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

As far as I know, it is not possible to do tone-outs on 800MHz trunked systems. We (Portland), TV F&R, and I assume Clackamas and Clark also, use alpha numeric pagers.
In case anyone's interested, here's what the last Portland box looks like on the pager:

E25 E9 E29 E4 T25
C4 C1 - RFIRE-
OPS3- 3808 SE
GLADSTONE ST , POR
(4100)- - btwn SE 37
AV (3700) & SE 39 AV
(3900)- FMAP:5596D
TMAP:627B3 #RP0463
8:41 09/07/09

 

[DickH]

I was just playing around with my 396t and I realized I've never had a Tone-out programmed into it. I've been trying to find one listed somewhere, but having no luck. If anyone can help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

I think Clackamas county still simulcasts tone-outs on their old freq. 154.19. Maybe they are just alerting tones. I'm not sure. Also try Cowlitz county on 154.235.

 

[pdxbofh]

Columbia County still uses tone out, but I am still trying to figure out which tones are for which stations.... (154.130)
Wish me luck, and if anyone has a list, I would love a copy !


WD

 

[pdxmedic]

CCOM simulcasts fire dispatch on 800 and VHF F-1 (don't have the freqs/TG handy). They still alert fire stations and personnel via tones on the VHF channel, and pretty much every firefighter in Clackamas County has a Minitor strapped to their hip. Interestingly, the tones themselves are only broadcast on VHF, so if you're monitoring 800 you'll hear a brief gap.

Us poor ambulance drivers have to make do listening to the voice dispatch and figuring out if we're closest.

AMR medic units in Multnomah County uses a pseudo tone-out on the 800 radios; when a unit is assigned a call the system alerts their portable radios -- which makes some noise! Fire, of course, is on the Zetron system. Everything is backed up by pagers and MDCs.