RBMTS said:
Do any of the towns or cities in and around the Dallas / Ft. Worth area do any fire tone paging? If so, might anyone have a list they are keeping (frequencies and cap codes or tones)? I did some searching in the database but did not seem to find anything. I might be moving there in a few months and was curious if any of the pagers would work there.
Randy
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Thanks
I don't recall seeing a listing of fire tone-out codes. Most of the larger cities (except Dallas) are on a trunked system, so the fire tone out feature of the BCD396T, BR330T. BCD996T, or BCT-15 would not work.
Dallas (City) uses a digital paging on their conventional system. Most all of the larger suburburbs (Garland, Mesquite, Irving, & Plano for examples), tone out or alert through their trunked radio systems. Grand Prairie shows a simulcast for alerts, but I have not heard any traffic on it for some time. Don't know if I've just overlooked it, or if it's no longer being used. It was used when they first went to their trunked system (which is now mixed-mode digital). Some of the smaller towns are also on the larger suburbs TRS. The smaller suburbs in southwest Dallas County do tone out, and use a combined dispatch (Cedar Hill, DeSoto, & Duncanville). However, there is an active application (search this forum) for a new LTR system for those three towns combined dispatch operation (SWRCC), and Duncanville has applied for a separate LTR system of their own. So far, no activity on any of the channels (no testing, no other signals or activity; I'm well within range). Dallas County Fire Service (for the unicorporated areas of the county), as well as the other smaller towns along the southern & southeastern rim of the county are also conventional, & do tone-outs.
Tarrant County is much the same. The largest system, Fort Worth/Tarrant County Public Safety, carries Fort Worth alerting, as well as a number of other Tarrant County suburbs. Arlington & Mansfield (mixed mode-digital) have their own. The NE Tarrant County system has several cities on it, & handles all their traffic, including alerting. As in Dallas County, there are a few smaller towns, and also some small volunteer fire dept's, that are conventional , and use tone outs.
I see you've asked this question in the DFW Yahoo group as well. While I did not see a fire tone list in the file section, if anyone had one, they'd probably be a member of that group.
