396 Tone out tones for Fredrick Firestone FD

[DGroves]

If no one has the correct tones for FFFD then I'm going to attempt to use the programs I downloaded in the wiki and acquire them. If someone else does have them, then please share and save me a lot of time.

Thanks

 

[NorthCOVideo]

Its an interesting thing to get into and I was trying to figure it out when I first bought my 396, but as I listened more and more to my radios I started to recognize different tones for different agencies. One thing I haven't played with is regenerating those tones myself in a tone generator, I'm not sure off hand how the tone out function works, but I remember it has to do with the specific sound frequencies. I might be able to come up with some specific tone frequencies, for specific agencies. Now on the other hand and I guess why I don't use the tone out function, is that when the tone out function is enable you cannot use it as a scanner at the same time. Its a great function don't get me wrong, especially if you are a fire fighter and need a pager of some kind.

 

[DGroves]

I get the gist of it being the level of Hz. All other tones will be filtered out except for the one that is programmed in to a specific FD station. When that tone is sent a variety of things which include but are not limited to radios start broadcasting, lights flash and/or turn on, alarms start sounding, pagers go off and so on. Yeah, and I realize that it is a standby feature that will keep the scanner from scanning except when the tone is received. Every once in a while I'd like to utilize it when I don't feel like listening to every single call. In addition I want to be able to get every penny of the $560 I paid for this thing out of it. The new 396 has a detector so I'm sure if I waited the two tone levels would be posted in no time for almost every department in the country. It's partly the hobby and having it now versus later. I'm going to play with the stuff that I downloaded tomorrow and see if I can get it to work. There will be some analog paging over the Commerce City feed, but like the link says it contains some Weld County audio. I'll post multiple departments including yours in Ft Lupton if I get it.

 

[scanlist]

FWIW Frederick-Firestone, Weld communications to Mountain view and Fort Lupton tones are sent via the old broadcast tower E.S.E. of your city.

You could use attenuation on whatever receiver you use for the two-tone logging to narrow things down.

Old Motorola HT600 and MT1000 radios make for inexpensive paging receivers as well.

Here is a link to midian electronics of a pdf file with a wealth of tone signaling information.

tone_signaling.pdf

 

[NorthCOVideo]

The one thing I'm noticing with the 396 is it only accepts 2 tone pages, tone A and tone B, where as some like Fredrick/Firestone and others are 4-6 tone pages. Now I'm not sure if you can bend the rules or programming and set one half of the tone for the first A and B and the second half for the second A and B, something to think about and play around with.