Another term for fire tone out?

[radio_iamfromit]

I'm having trouble locating information about this by searching here. I'm hoping somebody knows more about it and my searching abilities can dig up.

Is there a technical term for fire tone out feature available on some scanners? Is it "2 tone"?
Are the fire tone out frequencies the same as CTCSS tones?
Can a modern Yaesu VX 7r or 8r match this and open up when received?

Thanks for any information insight you can provide.

 

[dwh367]

Is there a technical term for fire tone out feature available on some scanners? Is it "2 tone"?

To the best of my knowledge (which might not be saying much at this time of the morning) only Uniden scanners have this feature and they refer to it as "fire tone out".

Are the fire tone out frequencies the same as CTCSS tones?

No.

Can a modern Yaesu VX 7r or 8r match this and open up when received?

No.

 

[captclint]

I'm having trouble locating information about this by searching here.

More info here: Fire Tone Out - The RadioReference Wiki

 

[hfxChris]

To the best of my knowledge (which might not be saying much at this time of the morning) only Uniden scanners have this feature and they refer to it as "fire tone out".

GRE does FTO as well on some of their newer scanners

 

[rfradioconsult]

aka "Quick Call II" (Motorola) or "Type 99" signalling (GE and successors) or 2 tone sequential signalling (generic)

 

[Jay911]

If you want to know tons about QCII (Quik-Call II) tone alert signaling, zip over to the Quick Call II Cap Code Translation page on Batlabs. You might be overwhelmed at first, but you will have tons of information that'll eventually be useful to you - especially "Table 2" accessed from that page, which lists the valid frequencies Motorola uses in QCII signaling. It also will help if all you get from a tone-out list or data sheet from somebody happens to be "B210" or "1365" as the capcode.

 

[Eng74]

GRE does FTO as well on some of their newer scanners

No GRE dose not have fire tone out on any of their scanners. The 500/600 and their RS twins have radio id's but no fire tone out.

 

[hfxChris]

Hmm, yes I see. Why did I think they did..

 

[mikepdx]

Can a modern Yaesu VX 7r or 8r match this and open up when received?

Those transceivers are incapable of decoding paging tones.

I purchased a retired commercial two way radio well under $75,
and use it as a scanner-receiver as well as and Amateur transceiver.

It's fully PC programmable and decodes the paging tones
and opens the squelch as if it were a paging receiver.
The radio is virtually immune to intermod interference, and the sensitivity and selectivity are superb.

Good luck.