How are the Balto city stations tone out

[patrolman123]

How are the Balto city stations toned out

Now that there seems to be a complete list of Baltimore county tones floating out there I was wondering how Baltimore city stations are toned out. Are there tones?
There must be some type of alerting system or page sent that turns on the lights and bells when the station gets a call.
Can anyone enlighten me on this topic???

 

[ericcarlson]

It appears that Baltimore city uses MOSCAD for station alerting, see talkgroup 49296 on their trunked radio system.

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=TRSDB&sid=188

-Eric

 

[wa8pyr]

It appears that Baltimore city uses MOSCAD for station alerting, see talkgroup 49296 on their trunked radio system.

I've always wondered about the wisdom of putting your MOSCAD (or other alerting) system on your primary trunked system. What if the system crashes completely? Not only would you have no voice comms, but no way to alert the houses other than telephone or flag/lamp signals.

Our system here uses 900 MHz conventional channels for MOSCAD (one for the data, the other for voice) for that very reason; if one goes down you still have a backup path to fall back on.

Tom WA8PYR

 

[patrolman123]

Baltmore city alerting

I see were you are talking about. Now can you use this info and the 396 like you would fore the Baltimore county fire dept?

 

[kirkman]

If the 800MHz. radios go down, Baltimore City Fire will use the OLD RADIO'S for back-up
The printers will also be down.
154.415
154.310
154.445

Somebody will stay up with the old radios on with pen & paper ready to write down the RUN and to turn out the co's in his house.

I don't know too much, only been in the BCFD for 25+ years.

 

[Dispatcher308]

Yeah Baltimore City does not have pagers anymore. They have a watchman at a watch desk, moscad and a radio on both VHF & 800mhz. However you can use the warble tone tones to alert you for any major boxes in the City, since they use the Warble tone.

 

[patrolman123]

Balto city tone out

Thanks for the idea
Do you by chance now what freq the (warble) tone out for balto city is?

 

[wadeless28]

I don't know too much, only been in the BCFD for 25+ years.

Rookie!! :wink:

 

[ResQguy]

Actually, BCFD does use pagers. But they are 900mhx alpha pagers with unique capcodes for each unit, and receive virtually the same text that is on the station printer...

 

[kirkman]

I hope Jon Sampson is do'in OK at R-1.

He is a good guy and he try's his best all the time, take good care of him!

One more thing, Tell him Tron said HI! Jon and Tron worked on Sq-54 together.

Take care

 

[patrolman123]

the city warble

Can anyone help determine what freq this warble is. It is from the city. Im not sure what chart to use in order to match up the correct freq.

 

[Llwellyn]

Reed 170 high, Reed 126 low.

1472.9Hz, 788.5Hz.

About 90% sure.

 

[patrolman123]

Does it have to be exact

In order for the tone feature to work for the city warble. Does it have to be the exact freq for it to work

 

[whatnext]

Its your standard centra com alert tone..

 

[patrolman]

the tone

WHich is what freq of tone