396 Long Tone B?

[Kirk]

I'm curious if anyone has played with Long Tone B paging decoding.

Basically, I have one radio frequency that is used by three departments. Each department has their own Quick Call (two tone) sequence, but they all share the same B tone. In the event of a fire or other multi-agency response, they send the B-tone for twice the normal length. Morotola calls it Long Tone B, and the Minitor's (most of them) support this.

I've programmed a Tone Out slot with the same pager tone for both tone A and tone B, and I don't think there's been a long tone since I programmed it that way. But I'm curious.. will this work?

It hasn't gone off for a standard set of station tones, so I guess that part is good.

Will it go off for a Long Tone B? What are the timing requirements? Anyone know?

 

[UPMan]

000.0 in A and any value in B will activate on a short single tone.
Tone value in A and 000.0 in B will activate on a long tone (group page.

 

[Kirk]

PRECISELY the info I was looking for. Thanks!

 

[DaveNF2G]

I think that's backward.

 

[Voyager]

000.0 in A and any value in B will activate on a short single tone.
Tone value in A and 000.0 in B will activate on a long tone (group page.

Paul,

According to my data, you program only tone A for short tones, and only B for long tones or group pages (opposite what you said).

Joe M.

 

[UPMan]

You're probably right...I'm posting from home and don't have my usual source of info handy. So I looked in the Yahoo group message archive for the answer...and copied my reply from your Sept 11 response to someone on the Yahoo board (deleting the specific frequency). :lol:

 

[Voyager]

You're probably right...I'm posting from home and don't have my usual source of info handy. So I looked in the Yahoo group message archive for the answer...and copied my reply from your Sept 11 response to someone on the Yahoo board (deleting the specific frequency). :lol:

You're on vacation and posting from HOME?!?

What happened to the Bahama Island trip?

Anyway, as for the 9/11 post, you're absolutely right (as to the source) and I was absolutely wrong in that post.

I'm pretty sure the group page (long tone) is 0 in A and tone in B. In fact, I just checked it on the service monitor and the statement just before this one is correct:

Short tone activation = tone in A and 0 in B
Long tone activation (AKA Group page) = 0 in A and tone in B

Now to correct my error on the list... <blush>

Joe M.