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Quik Call II Tone assessment question.

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CPS under the HT1250 gives you the option of:

A-B
A-B/A-C
A-B/C-B
A-B/A-D/C-D
A-B/C-D


My tones are:

850 715

Another is:

1984.6 671.7 (Slightly off due to coding option but they still alert the pager)


Is my tones option?:

A-B
 
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CPS under the HT1250 gives you the option of:

A-B
A-B/A-C
A-B/C-B
A-B/A-D/C-D
A-B/C-D


My tones are:

850 715

Another is:

1984.6 671.7 (Slightly off due to coding option but they still alert the pager)


Is my tones option?:

A-B

If you are putting all four tones in under the same personality, you would use A-B/C-D because you do not share a common tone.

If you are using the tones on different personalities, then you would use A-B and make two different QC-II Systems.
 

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What do you enter for a real long A tone only?
Is this all on one personality? I don't see an option that allows A-B/C-D/Long E in one line.

Is the single tone the same as one of the tones in the A-B or C-D pairs?

Unfortunately, the Pro Series doesn't have the 8 different tone pairs and 4 different long tones capability seen in the Minitor V so there may be some combinations that you won't be able to do on the HT1250.
 

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I've never understood this myself----why do certain companies (namely Motorola and Kenwood) still limit tone choices in a modern radio to A-B/A-C, etc.? I could understand years ago when actual tone reeds were in use for Minitor 2's, etc., but I see no reason to today. I had an Icom F43 that let you have 8 completely individual tone sets and it was one of the few I could actually accomplish putting in all that I needed to.



Is this all on one personality? I don't see an option that allows A-B/C-D/Long E in one line.

Is the single tone the same as one of the tones in the A-B or C-D pairs?

Unfortunately, the Pro Series doesn't have the 8 different tone pairs and 4 different long tones capability seen in the Minitor V so there may be some combinations that you won't be able to do on the HT1250.
 

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I've never understood this myself----why do certain companies (namely Motorola and Kenwood) still limit tone choices in a modern radio to A-B/A-C, etc.? I could understand years ago when actual tone reeds were in use for Minitor 2's, etc., but I see no reason to today. I had an Icom F43 that let you have 8 completely individual tone sets and it was one of the few I could actually accomplish putting in all that I needed to.


Because it is Motorola and it has to be difficult!!!
 

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The timing sequence of 1 second and 3 seconds was established for the mechanical tone reeds to give them time to lock on and then be long enough to prevent falsing. Modern tone decoders can pick out a tone in a couple of cycles (we're talking milliseconds).

With the computing power of the latest radios, they should be able to respond to any tone code sent to them. The only limiting factor is programming space (highly unlikely now-a-days) or just plain marketing stink.

The HT/CDMs do what they do and that's all she wrote.
 

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Motorola wants you to buy a Minitor, so your options in their radios for tone decoding are limited.

Icom doesn't make a tone pager that I know of, so they aren't worried about losing money on another product, so they'll make their radios able to do more with tone decoding.
 
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