"Emergency" Tones on PFD K-9

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Listening to Phoenix FD I just heard the TV show "Emergency" tones and klaxon go out over K-9. I thought perhaps that is used for a man-down signal but there was no messages afterwards to confirm or deny it.


A few minutes later there was other routine traffic on it.


Any ideas?
 

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I believe a version of those tones are included with the "new" Motorola consoles (i.e. MCC7500 Elite) as one of the audible alert sounds. The Centracom Gold Elite consoles only had 3 alert tones, but the MCC7500s have 10. To boot, you can also replace any of those 10 tones with custom-made WAVs of your choosing - I just did that with several tone sets I'm trying to make work over a P25 talkgroup.
 

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There are several departments in my area who use them on FD dispatch channels.
2 or 3 of them specifically use them for structure fire calls vs other bells or tones used for wrecks and medical stuff.
 

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I believe a version of those tones are included with the "new" Motorola consoles (i.e. MCC7500 Elite) as one of the audible alert sounds.
I have heard that at Sheppard AFB. I don't know what equipment they are using but I assume they got new Motorola consoles a while back.
 

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I heard the same or similar a day or two ago on one of the A-deck channels (either A-6 or A-9). The TRO came up immediately after and told all crews to ignore the "go defensive" tones, it was an accidental activation.

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"Go Defensive" tones are part of a fire ground software package. As others have stated the consoles used in dispatch have the ability to tone out a myriad of things, and then fire ground accountability from a battalion chief's vehicle (for example) can do the same. Ive only ever heard the various tones on A deck. Couple of weeks ago it was for station 19 (Sky Harbor). I thought they had stopped using QCII paging, but I know some of the departments RDC deals with still arent fully digital. Odd that it was on K Deck, usually the tones dont carry over. Would have been interesting to get a recording of.
 

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Listening to Phoenix FD I just heard the TV show "Emergency" tones and klaxon go out over K-9. I thought perhaps that is used for a man-down signal but there was no messages afterwards to confirm or deny it.


A few minutes later there was other routine traffic on it.


Any ideas?

Dispatcher error. Our MCC7500 has the tone buttons next to each other and sometimes when the dispatcher is reaching for a certain channel, their mouse moves to the tones instead.

Our Dispatch Tone, Defensive Tone (not yet in use), Emergency Traffic Tones, Drowning Tone, and our Tour Tone (SQ51 tone) are all right above the PTT button. Our dispatchers have multiple channels selected and when the tones are activated, they'll go across everything the dispatcher is working.
 

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new orleans ems has the same tone for there dispatch, it was started in 2010
 
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