St Johns Co (FL) Fire is on a P25 800 system using APX 7000's. The firefighters radios alert when their station is dispatched. Is this the Call Alert feature? And is there a way for a scanner to accomplish this?
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APX 7000 Call Alert
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doctordialtone
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Which scanner?
Some Uniden scanners can:
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Fire_Tone_Out
Also:
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/TwoToneDetect
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talviar
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Most likely this is a Call Alert... It can either be data on the control channel or if the system has "In Call User Alert" and has that option checkmarked in the right spots when programming the radio... it can be part of the signalling on the voice channel.
And other than the Unication pagers and actual radios on the system, I don't know of any scanners that decode the call alert on the trunked systems.
This is on the trunked system not on a traditional paging set up.
Thanks, this must be it.
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