Fire Tone out's, Basic How To ??

[Machria]

Is there a Basic "How To" use the Fire tone out features on the BCD396XT?

In particular, I'd like to take my very busy main Fire Dispatch channel and only have it go off when my local fire company is called. My local Fire Dept is "Brookhaven, NY", there freq's are:

Freq Tone
46.400 -------- Fire Dispatch (for all towns)
453.975 DCS 025 Brookhaven FD 1
153.890 114.8Hz Brookhaven FD 2


Secondly, is there a way I can set the 46.400 to go off for more than one tone/fire dept ? In otherwords, what if I want to here my town, and the 2 towns on either side of me, but not the other 50 towns surrounding that?

Thanks in advance....

 

[pwscott]

http://marksscanners.com/396XT/396xt.shtml#Fire tone

You need to find out what the tones are (always two) for each kind of response from each company you want to trigger the scanner in Tone Out mode

 

[KB7MIB]

I don't own a Uniden scanner, but IIRC, you can monitor up to 10 tone-outs. It will also search for the proper tone-out frequencies if you don't know them.
However, you cannot scan other channels while in tone-out mode. You have to sit on the dispatch channel.
So, you'd need one scanner to monitor the tone-outs, and a second (or more ) to scan everything else that you're interested in.

John
Peoria, AZ

 

[W8RMH]

http://marksscanners.com/396XT/396xt.shtml#Fire tone

 

[ofd8001]

You may wish to got to You Tube and search for "Uniden Fire Tone Out". Several good videos there. While different scanner models are shown, they all work pretty much the same way.

What you want to do is "do-able".

You'll need to know the receive frequency, which you have as 46.400. Then you'll need to know the specific alert tone frequencies. That will take some research.

For example, my fire department is Okolona which used a dispatch frequency of 154.445 and the alert tone frequencies were 794.3 and 582.1.

So here is how I programmed my 396XT:

Name: Okolona
Frequency: 154.445
Tone A: 794.3
Tone B: 582.1

A previous poster said "it's always two" for the alert tones. Every once in a while a fire department may use a single tone, called a "long tone". In that case, just that one tone is entered in the Tone A slot.

Also, just to mention, while in Fire Tone Out, your scanner will not "scan" all channels. Rather it is more or less a big pager.