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5/6-Tone Paging / Minitor Issue

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NorCalrescue

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Our department is currently transitioning to 5-tone paging. Much faster than the old 2-tone. We have a ton of Minitor V's and they work great. Unfortunately I can't find any Motorola pagers that receive 5-tone signals. Anyone know somebody at Motorola I could talk to about converting the board inside the Minitor V over to 5-tone? Then we don't have to sell all the V's and switch to Swissphone pagers.

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I'm not sure if you want to go older, but the old Motorola Keynotes would do 5/6 tone paging. (Some of them would).
 
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5/6 Tone (Decimal Digital) was developed for the Telephone industry while Public Safety standardized on 2-Tone sequential.
I don't think Motorola ever made a pager aimed at the public safety (now mostly fire) market the used 5/6 tone.
Most of the Telco pagers were 5/6 tone until their digital (Golay or POCSAG) counterparts took the market over.
 
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