Help with 2-tone programming Minitor 6

[Purplegoat88]

Hello all, I'm on 2 depts and trying to program switch A to silent scan both dispatch channels for both tone-outs. the 2-tone for the second agency is motorola QC-2 1530-670 so i assume i need to enter that as a USER tone setting. for some reason it isnt working. the only thing i can think of is that maybe the first channel squelch is set too high and is holding the other channel open. when monitoring that channel i get constant static at sq 3. dropping it to 2= no more static. I have been at this for a week to no avail as i can only test it when there is a call or pager test. please someone advise if my thought process could cause this issue. thanks in advance!

 

[N5XPM]

Hello all, I'm on 2 depts and trying to program switch A to silent scan both dispatch channels for both tone-outs. the 2-tone for the second agency is motorola QC-2 1530-670 so i assume i need to enter that as a USER tone setting. for some reason it isnt working. the only thing i can think of is that maybe the first channel squelch is set too high and is holding the other channel open. when monitoring that channel i get constant static at sq 3. dropping it to 2= no more static. I have been at this for a week to no avail as i can only test it when there is a call or pager test. please someone advise if my thought process could cause this issue. thanks in advance!

I think the first test would be to program a switch position with the 1530 670 combination and confirm that combination works as a stand alone. Once that works, maybe the scanning configuration can be figured out.

 

[Purplegoat88]

That makes sense. I have used that combination on my kenwood mobile for 2-tone and it does work properly. I’m 99% sure those are the correct tones as that’s the info I’ve gotten from multiple sources.

 

[SteveC0625]

If it helps, those are Plectron tones. The precise numbers are 1530/672. The 670 that you have been using is within tolerance for some decoders. The Minitor VI might be a touch pickier.

 

[Purplegoat88]

I thought they were. The thing is they’re timed 1-3 so when I tried programming them as plectron they didn’t work.

 

[n3obl]

Minitor VI has a setting for plectron tones.

 

[Purplegoat88]

Yes however if my research is correct the timing for plectron tones fast is 0.75, 1 seconds. the timing for our tone out is 1, 3 seconds. I can only assume they converted the plectron tones to a custom QC system.

 

[SteveC0625]

It’s common to see this in tone systems. Try setting the tone system to Motorola and then enter 1530/670. The software will change your entries a tiny bit. Don’t worry about that, the pager has +/- variance of a half percent or so.

If that doesn’t work PM for my email address. I’ll take a peek at your code plug.

 

[n3obl]

Set it to plectron and enter the tones I'll bet it works.

 

[Purplegoat88]

Set it to plectron and enter the tones I'll bet it works.

I tried that setup last night and it didn’t work.

 

[Purplegoat88]

It’s common to see this in tone systems. Try setting the tone system to Motorola and then enter 1530/670. The software will change your entries a tiny bit. Don’t worry about that, the pager has +/- variance of a half percent or so.

If that doesn’t work PM for my email address. I’ll take a peek at your code plug.

I tried that first thinking it must be close enough but that didn’t work. I’m really thinking it might have been the squelch holding the pager on the other channel so it never heard the one monitoring these tones.

 

[ramal121]

I tried that first thinking it must be close enough but that didn’t work. I’m really thinking it might have been the squelch holding the pager on the other channel so it never heard the one monitoring these tones.

Possible. Do you have any switches set for monitor? You could check for squelch breaks as you walk around.

 

[Purplegoat88]

Possible. Do you have any switches set for monitor? You could check for squelch breaks as you walk around.

Yes. And when I select the working channel it opens to static. I dropped it down to 2 and it no longer does that But haven’t had any tone outs to check if it corrected it.

 

[Purplegoat88]

so set to user with the squelch changed still didnt work, im going to try motorola with the nearest tones selected (1513, 669) with the squelch corrected and see what happens

 

[Ant9270]

Do you have the correct bandwidth set? Ex: 12.5 or 25.0KhZ

 

[Purplegoat88]

Yes everything in my area is narrowband.

 

[Ant9270]

Yes everything in my area is narrowband.

Okay, try setting the tone type to “user” and lowering the squelch level down to about 4.

 

[Purplegoat88]

im going to setup one channel to selective call for this tone set and see if it even goes off and hopefully i can go from there

 

[SteveC0625]

There’s an app for smartphones that will give you the frequencies of the tone pair. It also will decode MDC1200 in addition to QC tones from any manufacturer. That would certainly help verify the tones for you.

 

[fireems14]

There’s an app for smartphones that will give you the frequencies of the tone pair. It also will decode MDC1200 in addition to QC tones from any manufacturer. That would certainly help verify the tones for you.

what app is the name of that app?