Lancaster County fire/EMS paging

[jbix1958]

I've noticed that Lancaster County has started using the pager tones over the trunked dispatch channel in addition to the usual VHF paging frequency. I set the volume to hear the voice but the tones are extremely loud, threatening to blow out the little speaker on my SDS100. New pagers being used???

 

[rescuecomm]

The tones sent over the Greenville County Pal800 Medcomm dispatch are shrill and louder than the voice audio. Definitely not fun to listen to.

 

[TwoStep]

I was monitoring the Spartanburg EMS Pager for a while and their tones were very loud too. They also did a test every morning at 7 AM that lasted for 2 minutes. Soon I realized that most messages sent over the pager were also sent over the regular dispatch channel. I didn't want to hear the tones anymore so I deleted the pager from my favorites.

Chris

 

[jbix1958]

I didn't monitor the Lancaster Fire/EMS dispatch VHF for exactly that reason. Dispatches are simulcast on both the VHF and trunked dispatch channels, with no tones on the trunked system. So I only monitored the trunked dispatch channel. Not the case anymore. Now tones go out on both. Very irritating.

 

[brian]

When some people have been monitoring for a long time, they find that they can memorize the tones for the agencies/stations/units that they're most interested in. One's ears can act like one's own personal pager. So, for some, the tones are desirable.

 

[jbix1958]

When some people have been monitoring for a long time, they find that they can memorize the tones for the agencies/stations/units that they're most interested in. One's ears can act like one's own personal pager. So, for some, the tones are desirable.

And I did exactly that when I was a firefighter/EMT...but only on the voice pagers (VHF) or I purposely monitored the voice dispatch only on the trunked dispatch simulcast (which did not broadcast the tones...only the voice part).

Nothing I can do about this except to find a happy volume balance between the screeching tones and the voice dispatch!