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The tones in Armada do not come close to lining up with the moto QC2 tones our county uses for fire paging. Any idea how this works on the Ken/EFJ side.
 

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The tones in Armada do not come close to lining up with the moto QC2 tones our county uses for fire paging. Any idea how this works on the Ken/EFJ side.

Not sure of your situation, but fwiw, P25 two-tone decode cannot do the same tones. There is a fixed list of tones that the P25 standards group set up, and those are the only ones that can be used on a P25 system. If you're doing analog, then disregard...
A county that wanted to continue using two-tone paging when they went to a P25 trunked system had to change all of their tones to a completely new plan.
 

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Not sure of your situation, but fwiw, P25 two-tone decode cannot do the same tones. There is a fixed list of tones that the P25 standards group set up, and those are the only ones that can be used on a P25 system. If you're doing analog, then disregard...
A county that wanted to continue using two-tone paging when they went to a P25 trunked system had to change all of their tones to a completely new plan.
The chart Evans posted worked for me. In an APX you input the same tones as what’s in a pager and it works. I’m assuming the motor uses whatever is closest to the conventional tones that are input on the digital side.
 

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Running into an issue where a radio is not alerting to a tone that is configured "long-short" from the console, instead of standard short-long
Is there a way to adjust the timing in armada?
 

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In Systems → Lists → Two Tone Decoder, would it work to swap the A and B tones and set Call Format to B-A?

(Apologies in advance – haven't dealt with two-tone since the 80s :) )
 
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