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Minitor standard alert tone frequency
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SteveC0625
Order of the Golden Dino since 1972
I used Audacity to examine the tone. The continuous tone is 2205 hz for approximately 4 seconds.
The beep beep beep standard tone is also 2205 hz. It lasts approximately 3.25 seconds 22 beeps with 22 equal pauses between each beep.
All of the Minitor V tones can be downloaded from Centre County Fire - Various Tones and Sounds and several other places on the net. Any search engine can find them and the Audacity program.
If your "other radio" can use .wav files, you don't have to create anything, just get the files from an online source and load the .wav into your radio.
SteveC0625
Order of the Golden Dino since 1972
I believe that the OP is looking for the internal tones that the pager generates when it decodes a page, not the paging tones themselves. They follow the paging tones and have no direct correlation. Their timing has nothing to do with standard QC-II timing.
The alert tones are sounded for a fixed period of time as soon as the pager decodes and then stop to allow the user to hear the voice message. If the alert tones continued for the duration of the page, they'd interfere with hearing the voice dispatch.
Yes I'm looking for the tones the pager generates, my other radio is a kenwood tk-3180. In the programming you can basically make your own by changing the Hz. I'm was hoping I can make it sound the same, don't see why this wouldn't work.
Yes, I realize what he is asking for. And yes, the timing does have a direct correlation as I outlined above.
The reason the alert tones stop for the vocie is that the paging tones have stopped prior to the voice announcement. Otherwise the dispatcher would interfere with the tone decoding. As I said, the pager generated tones stop when the paging TONES stop. Try it. Generate a page and set the timing for 1+10. The pager will start generating the tones at about second 2 and go for about 9 seconds. It will stop with the end of the second paging tone. How do I know? I've tried this many years ago.
Oh, and the Kenwood may or may not sound the same depending on the format of the wave. A square wave won't sound the same as a sine wave to to the increased harmonic content. But, try it and see what you get.
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