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Question on minitor 6

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firebell9137

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Hi everyone. Why does the minitor 6 1 channel have 1 channel and 8 knob positions? Lol. 🤔
 

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For starters, it's cheaper to manufacture a single piece of hardware than it is to have two different versions. Both versions have the same internal hardware, it's just a matter of the 5 channel option being enabled if you pay for it. Oh and of course you could have various options for how you setup a single channel pager, and having a multi-position knob allows you do to that. Open monitor, tone alert, tone/vibrate alert, on/off duty, different sets of tones per knob position, etc.
 

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For starters, it's cheaper to manufacture a single piece of hardware than it is to have two different versions. Both versions have the same internal hardware, it's just a matter of the 5 channel option being enabled if you pay for it. Oh and of course you could have various options for how you setup a single channel pager, and having a multi-position knob allows you do to that. Open monitor, tone alert, tone/vibrate alert, on/off duty, etc.

Ok good points. Thanks.
 
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