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TK 2180 Pager Function

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Hello...and thanks for any help that anyone may be able to provide me. I am usually good at figuring out things on my own when it comes to programming, but this one is beyond me. I am trying to set up 2 channels on my TK 2180 to be used as my EMS pager and then fire pager on the other. I have entered in the correct channel info, PL tones, correct pager tones, and selected the right corresponding signal 2-tones signal for the channels. I am still hearing all of the radio traffic. The radio alerts as it should when the correct tones are received, but I don't want to listen to all the radio traffic...especially if I am setting in meetings where the radio traffic serves as a distrubance.

When I used a TK 280 Ver 2.0 radio, I didn't have this problem. Thanks again for any help that you may be able to provide for me!
 
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TK 2180 paging function

Look for an option for signaling. Select "AND" signaling instead of "OR" and it should function similar to a pager in select mode.
 
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Good news! After continuing to work at it, I found the mistake that I was making. I didn't change the settings from QT/DQT to the correct setting of QT/DQT and Optional Signaling. If only I would've figured this out earlier...lol
 
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