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CP185 Question

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threid

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I am getting 6 CP185 for my manufacturing plant. I have been told by the salesman that if I needed to make an emergency call that needed to go out to all the radios at once that I could do this -- no matter which channel the other radios were set to at that time. However, I couldn't find any instruction in the user manual that would indicate how this could be done. Does anyone else know how to make this happen?
 

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The CP185 is low tier radio which doesn't have emergency options. Now technically you could set up all the radios for scan and make 1 of the channels priority for all the radios. But this creates an issue more than a solution imho. Cause now you have to make sure all the radios are in scan mode, since this radio doesn't do auto scan ( a feature that causes the radio to automatically scan a certain channel or channes ) as well as the radio isn't smart enough to remember to stay in scan if you switch channels, so you have to remember to put it back into scan mode.
 

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The CP185 is low tier radio which doesn't have emergency options. Now technically you could set up all the radios for scan and make 1 of the channels priority for all the radios. But this creates an issue more than a solution imho. Cause now you have to make sure all the radios are in scan mode, since this radio doesn't do auto scan ( a feature that causes the radio to automatically scan a certain channel or channes ) as well as the radio isn't smart enough to remember to stay in scan if you switch channels, so you have to remember to put it back into scan mode.
 

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yeah, the only way to do it is key up and scream emergency. are you sure you are not confusing options from another radio he may have mentioned?
 

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You have need for more than 1 channel with 6 radios?

I would think a main channel and a couple of spares tops. It does have the ability for 16 channels though.

Usually after a couple dozen radios is when you need multiple channels, wouldn't you say so b7spectra?
 
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