How do you program a G5 Unication Pager to work Fire Department? (South Carolina)

[Burdick10]

I have been attempting to tinker with the Unication PPS and figure out how I can make a trunked system act the same as a Minitor 6 (VHF). We have both systems, we have digital and analog tones. We also use a simulcast system for our pagers currently (So our digital frequency comes over our VHF system).

Everytime I put our 800MHz frequencies into the pager and input the appropriate TGID (Dec)-(Hex) and utilize the P25 portion for tones it pulls over other talk groups. I have tried using the Binding method on Trunked TG-Scan and I have tried with Trunked TG-Monitor. I have not been able to make any of them work.

Our system works like this: We transmit and receive on one 800MHz frequency and includes tones. We have four channels total, a Dispatch, TAC 1, TAC 2, and a Roaming Channel. When I put my program into the pager, I hear other agencies and I have identified them by the TGID that displays on the pager and I have triple checked to make sure they are not attached to the trunking system list.

I would love to see how another department makes it work for them!

 

[hazrat8990]

The knob needs to be set to Trunking TG-Scan and the binding feature set to Sub-Group Feature in order for it to alert. If you have it set to monitor, you will receive any TG that comes across the site.

How exactly do you want it to handle alerting? You can have it receive traffic from dispatch, as well as alert, or you could set it up to remain silent until a tone is sent.

 

[Burdick10]

I want to have a program for both. I have tried the binding function by sub group and changed it to manual monitor, and the pager still pulls traffic from other talk groups that aren’t supposed to be associated with that channel

 

[dchandler2]

Bear with me-new at this. ( Sounds like similar problem I am having) I have programed G5 800 trunk system with 16 talk groups with no issues. I would like to add a single channel VHF 2 tone fire dept frequency in the same profile zone slot (if that is correct term) . The fire dept is going to simultaneously transmit both at the same time on 800 & VHF. I would like the VHF fire dept freq to be silence until activated at the same time the 800 talk group is activated if possible. The VHF will be single freq receive only. Thank you for any help if you can figure out what I am trying to do.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Bear with me-new at this. ( Sounds like similar problem I am having) I have programed G5 800 trunk system with 16 talk groups with no issues. I would like to add a single channel VHF 2 tone fire dept frequency in the same profile zone slot (if that is correct term) . The fire dept is going to simultaneously transmit both at the same time on 800 & VHF. I would like the VHF fire dept freq to be silence until activated at the same time the 800 talk group is activated if possible. The VHF will be single freq receive only. Thank you for any help if you can figure out what I am trying to do.

You can not program a trunked system (with your TGs) and a VHF frequency on the same knob, though you can program them on different knobs in same zone, but you can only monitor one or the other.

 

[Echo4Thirty]

You also do not want to be scanning at all on a device set to tone out. The chances of the radio missing the complete tone set while its off on other channels/talkgroups is high.