How a pager operates question

[civilwar1263]

Ok i want to program my motorola advisor to recieve my fire departments pages i know the frequency our county pages on but do not know the cap code if i just enter this frequency and no cap code will i recieve all the fire departments in the county pages and the pager will just not go off or what will happen? Thanks for the help and God Bless

 

[CommJunkie]

You won't get any pages without a cap code.

 

[SteveC0625]

Ok i want to program my motorola advisor to recieve my fire departments pages i know the frequency our county pages on but do not know the cap code if i just enter this frequency and no cap code will i recieve all the fire departments in the county pages and the pager will just not go off or what will happen? Thanks for the help and God Bless

If I am not mistaken, the Advisor is a digital pager. If your fire dispatch is tone and voice only, the two are incompatible.

Perhaps you could describe your system there a bit better so that we can give you a proper answer. VHF? UHF? Voice dispatch with paging tones? Digital dispatch along with the voice dispatch? City, town, rural?

If your agency does do digital dispatch along with voice, you'll first have to verify that the pager is on the same frequency as your dispatch.

 

[ecps92]

The "M" Advisor is not the same as the Fire Dept Plectron/Minitor.

The Advisor works on a Cap Code [Electronic Address] and the Plectron/Minitor work on Paging Tones typically shared with the Dept's Voice Channel

Ok i want to program my motorola advisor to recieve my fire departments pages i know the frequency our county pages on but do not know the cap code if i just enter this frequency and no cap code will i recieve all the fire departments in the county pages and the pager will just not go off or what will happen? Thanks for the help and God Bless

 

[Pezking]

Most fire departments use Quick Call II for paging. The Advisor pager uses either FLEX or POCSAG. It isn't going to work.

A better option is using a HT750, setting it up as receive only.

 

[firefive76]

The OP said Advisor and capcode, so I'm betting they use digital paging. My fire department also uses Advisor II pagers on POCSAG, they work great! CommJunkie answered your question, without a capcode, you won't get anything.