DCBF Fire Alert Tones.

[62Truck]

I have a HT1000 that will go off for Dutchess County's Alert Tones, but my HT1250 will not. The Firmware in my 1250 is 05.11.05, I just find it odd that the radio will alert to the city of poughkeepie tones when I program them in it, unless city pok fire uses regular timing on quick call II, I know that dutchess county's are weird and don't follow the 1000 ms 3000 ms tone thingy ma bob

 

[nozzlenut83]

I don't know if it matters but the City uses 3000ms/1000ms timing and most of the departments in the County use 3000ms/800ms timing.

 

[62Truck]

I don't know if it matters but the City uses 3000ms/1000ms timing and most of the departments in the County use 3000ms/800ms timing.

Ok I'll try and re-program the radio with the 3000ms/800ms, that explains why my radio will activate for the city and and the rest of the county.

 

[Devilz311]

In the CPS for the HT1250, there's no option to specify the length of the two tones, as with other brand radios. The tones can be any duration, as long as it picks up the correct frequency pair.

 

[62Truck]

Yeah I saw that, unless the firmware in my radio doesn't support the county's timing, dutchess county has very short timing on there alert tones, when I bought my VX-354, I know they had to update the firmware in that radio for it to open up to the county's tones, the firmware in my radio is 5.11.05, idk how new or how old that is.

 

[Devilz311]

Are you sure the 1250 is set to receive the correct tone Freq's? Using a relm rpv3600, I was able to alert a 1250 transmitting both 3000/1000 timing, as well as 3000/800 timing. The firmware in the 1250 is R01.00.03, so it's pretty old.

 

[62Truck]

Yeah I'm pretty sure I have mine set up correctly, The radio will activate on city fire, I have city pok 1st and 2nd alarm tones programmed in it as well and works fine, its just something about dutchess county set up, when they do send out the tones on 453.900 they do sound a little distorted, but I have the freq programmed correctly.

 

[nozzlenut83]

Yeah I'm pretty sure I have mine set up correctly, The radio will activate on city fire, I have city pok 1st and 2nd alarm tones programmed in it as well and works fine, its just something about dutchess county set up, when they do send out the tones on 453.900 they do sound a little distorted, but I have the freq programmed correctly.

Did this problem start recently? I wonder if the tones sounding distorted may have something to do with the new simulcast system.

I've had no issues with Minitor III, IV & V's, Federal Signal Informers, Instalert Radios, older plectrons or Kenwood Mobiles opening up as well as a BCD369T.

I'm not really sure what to tell you.

 

[62Truck]

Ok I think I might of found the issue, the channel spacing wasn't programmed right, instead of 25KHZ spacing it was set to 12.5 KHZ, I fixed it so not time will tell if it will activate now.