We have a Motorola Centracom Gold Elite I have two questions I need guidence on...
1.) When we send pages out the Elite sends them out backwards. When the fire and ems agencies (Ztron) send them they are correct. It still trips sirens and pagers, just backwards. (i.e. the tones are (siren) 1122.5;1321.2 and (pager) 524.6;426.7 but it must send them in numerical order?) Is there a way to set this up so it sends the tones the preferred way? (siren then pager...not pager then siren) The CCII codes are 2006, 7392. When the button was set up was it done incorrectly?
2.) Spurred by the recent tornado activity on the east coast, my superiors have asked about setting up a tornado alert using the fire sirens. We are unable to use a separate tone as the siren controllers already have several different tones programmed into them. The solution we came up with was to use an existing tone which is used as a "all call" tone. This, when paged sends the siren up 5 times (compared to 1 for EMS, and 3 for fire). We want to program the Gold Elite with a group page simular to Saturday test button that alerts all local companies, with a Weather Alert button. The Weather Alert button would page the "all call" tone 3 times for a total of 15 siren cycles. The issue is whether the siren controller will recognize the 3 stacked tones and send the siren into the 3 alerts of 15 cycles. If it doesn't recognize the identical 3 tones separately, can I program the stacked pages with timing...say send the page, tell it to wait 10 secs, (siren cycles 5 times) send the page, tell it to wait 10 secs, send the page?
Any and all help is appreciated as I am just a Dispatcher with limited radio/programming knowledge, but I have found my way around the Centracom setting up new paging buttons and reconfiguring layouts of the screens.
1.) When we send pages out the Elite sends them out backwards. When the fire and ems agencies (Ztron) send them they are correct. It still trips sirens and pagers, just backwards. (i.e. the tones are (siren) 1122.5;1321.2 and (pager) 524.6;426.7 but it must send them in numerical order?) Is there a way to set this up so it sends the tones the preferred way? (siren then pager...not pager then siren) The CCII codes are 2006, 7392. When the button was set up was it done incorrectly?
2.) Spurred by the recent tornado activity on the east coast, my superiors have asked about setting up a tornado alert using the fire sirens. We are unable to use a separate tone as the siren controllers already have several different tones programmed into them. The solution we came up with was to use an existing tone which is used as a "all call" tone. This, when paged sends the siren up 5 times (compared to 1 for EMS, and 3 for fire). We want to program the Gold Elite with a group page simular to Saturday test button that alerts all local companies, with a Weather Alert button. The Weather Alert button would page the "all call" tone 3 times for a total of 15 siren cycles. The issue is whether the siren controller will recognize the 3 stacked tones and send the siren into the 3 alerts of 15 cycles. If it doesn't recognize the identical 3 tones separately, can I program the stacked pages with timing...say send the page, tell it to wait 10 secs, (siren cycles 5 times) send the page, tell it to wait 10 secs, send the page?
Any and all help is appreciated as I am just a Dispatcher with limited radio/programming knowledge, but I have found my way around the Centracom setting up new paging buttons and reconfiguring layouts of the screens.
