Do any of the digital scanners do Fire-Tone-Out?
Whistler? No.Do any of the digital scanners do Fire-Tone-Out?
What is that? ?Do any of the digital scanners do Fire-Tone-Out?
A nice feature that searches for and then monitors Tone codes for specific Fire Stations on a dispatch channel. So first you can search for tones used by specific fire stations, and once found you can then save that station into your FTO channels. Then put your scanner into FTO monitor mode which makes it work like a Fire fighters pager. The scanner will only become active on that freq. when that specific tone is herd. The way Uniden does it is, you have 10 channels to work with, so you can program in the tones for 10 fire stations (towns...) and monitor dispatch for all of them (assuming they all use the same freq.).What is that? ?
Many fire departments (volunteer for sure) alert calls using tones for pagers. The pagers can be kept "silent" but monitor for a specific set of tones (audible frequencies to be sent) that are assigned to a given fire company or unit. When that specific tone sequence is transmitted, the pager will "open" and allow the voice announcement to be heard.Thanks. I get it but at the same time I dont. How is this different than say a CTCSS tone?
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CTCSS is meant to be sub-audible, while the tones used for fire department alerting is in the typical audio range.Thanks. I get it but at the same time I dont. How is this different than say a CTCSS tone?
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Like on Squad 51??Many fire departments (volunteer for sure) alert calls using tones for pagers. The pagers can be kept "silent" but monitor for a specific set of tones (audible frequencies to be sent) that are assigned to a given fire company or unit. When that specific tone sequence is transmitted, the pager will "open" and allow the voice announcement to be heard.
Like on Squad 51??
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LOL!! Great example........like on Squad 51