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Minitor Two-Tone Testing

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ancker

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Our department has like 15 Minitor V pagers that are "broken".
Without asking dispatch to send out a million test pages, I'd like a way to definitively determine which pagers are functional.

I've seen some posts for the CommTek software, but that doesn't appear to work on modern computers/operating systems.

Is there a recommended way to generate the tones required to test these pagers?
 
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Charge them all up, turn them on for the weekly (or in some places around me, twice daily) tone test and see which ones alert.

For cases that don't fit that, I have a HT1250LS+ that I use. It's programmed to low power, my workshop is below grade, and the entire thing has foam insulation on the walls with the reflective metallic layer on the inside. The old guy who built it basically made it a ghetto faraday cage. I can fire off as many tones as I want and there is no appreciable interference. Coupled with the fact that I live in a rural area, and no one uses the frequencies I test on...never heard anything from anyone about it.
 
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In the past I've tested them by reprogramming them to different frequency. I had a cable made for the speaker out on my computer to the mic in on my radio. I used Audacity to generate the tone set and played it back to test with. Worked well for me. I also had an old vertex radio that would tone encode so I would sometimes use that as well. Either way I would program the pager to a frequency that isn't the main dispatch.
 
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Thanks. We have a Minitor VI programmer, but not a V.
We'll probably end up trading them in or just junking them.
 
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you can hold pins to the bottom of a V and program that way, without a cradle.
 
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