Haven't seen this addressed in other posts:
I'm programming a 3173 for 2-tone alerting and see it has 3 groups (2-tone 1, 2, & 3) with 2 tone pairs each for a total of 6 tone combinations. I want to have as many pairs as possible so I set up all 6 sets and 3 conventional channels (same freq & zone but different signaling groups) to scan the 6 sets. From other posts, it seems this won't work due to the scan parameters of the radio. Am I limited to 2 pairs of tones for alerting?
Then I tried setting 2 single long tone alerts on 1 channel thinking it would alert on any tone combination that matches either tone whether first or second but it won't alert. Does a tone need to be heard longer for the "long tone" setting to decode it?
This is a UHF uplink to a VHF repeater and there is an additional tone to open the repeater before the tone pairs and voice are broadcast. All tones and voice are broadcast twice so can I set 2 channels (4 pairs) for alerting?
I'm also confused by the help file for monitor in auto reset:
Does enable reset alerting?
Does disable leave the speaker unmuted for any future pages?
I'm programming a 3173 for 2-tone alerting and see it has 3 groups (2-tone 1, 2, & 3) with 2 tone pairs each for a total of 6 tone combinations. I want to have as many pairs as possible so I set up all 6 sets and 3 conventional channels (same freq & zone but different signaling groups) to scan the 6 sets. From other posts, it seems this won't work due to the scan parameters of the radio. Am I limited to 2 pairs of tones for alerting?
Then I tried setting 2 single long tone alerts on 1 channel thinking it would alert on any tone combination that matches either tone whether first or second but it won't alert. Does a tone need to be heard longer for the "long tone" setting to decode it?
This is a UHF uplink to a VHF repeater and there is an additional tone to open the repeater before the tone pairs and voice are broadcast. All tones and voice are broadcast twice so can I set 2 channels (4 pairs) for alerting?
I'm also confused by the help file for monitor in auto reset:
You can configure Monitor to have Auto Reset Timer deactivate the monitoring of 2-tone codes. During the matched state, the transceiver can communicate only with QT/DQT codes after the 2-tone codes match.
Check (Enable):
I don't believe this affects the monitor status for QT/DQT?When Auto Reset Timer expires, the transceiver cancels the matching status of 2-tone codes.
Uncheck (Disable):
The transceiver does not cancel the matching status of 2-tone codes.
Does enable reset alerting?
Does disable leave the speaker unmuted for any future pages?