HT1250 Programming Tone Questions

[DTservice]

Hello there, recently I was gifted a HT1250 radio to replace my old radio. I'm trying to set it up for my department and I had a question about programming it.

I purchased the CPS software for the insane price and got it mostly programmed, however I can't find where to program a repeater Tone, the repeater for our area is on tone 5, however there is no tone 5 option that I can find, any help would be great!

 

[mmckenna]

Hello there, recently I was gifted a HT1250 radio to replace my old radio. I'm trying to set it up for my department and I had a question about programming it.

I purchased the CPS software for the insane price and got it mostly programmed, however I can't find where to program a repeater Tone, the repeater for our area is on tone 5, however there is no tone 5 option that I can find, any help would be great!

You need to find out what Tone 5 translates into, as there is no standard for "Tone 5", that sounds like a local thing. Is this for a fire agency, or something else?
It's likely a CTCSS tone (PL tone in Motorola programming software), or it could be a DCS code (DPL in Motorola…)

Find whoever runs your radio system and ask them. Adding a radio to someone else's radio system (even if you are an employee) does require permission from the licensee, per FCC rules.

 

[DTservice]

You need to find out what Tone 5 translates into, as there is no standard for "Tone 5", that sounds like a local thing. Is this for a fire agency, or something else?
It's likely a CTCSS tone (PL tone in Motorola programming software), or it could be a DCS code (DPL in Motorola…)

Find whoever runs your radio system and ask them. Adding a radio to someone else's radio system (even if you are an employee) does require permission from the licensee, per FCC rules.

Copy, I'll ship it off to one of our radio guys tomorrow then...
Thanks for the response