Minitor V ???

[bigdoggg]

I hear that a Minitor V can alert on both channels.... is this true?

Dose anyone know if you can set them up so you can alert on both channels one and two with mutable tones.

Example.
Channel #1
County Fire Frequency
Fire Alert Tone
First Responder Alert Tone
County All Call Tone
(3 Tones)

Channel #2
County Rescue Frequency
Rescue Tone
(1 Tone)

And maybe.
A= Monitor Channel #1
B= Alert on both Channels
C= Vibrate on both Channels
D= Monitor both Channels

Can this be done with a Minitor V Pager?

Thanks,
The BigDoggg

 

[xxx2fan]

minitor v

I'm thinking if you do this you may miss alerts because one or the other channels my have traffic when the alert tones are sent, and If you don't get the complete tone set you will not get the page.
Minitor V well all two channel pagers are bad enouglf when one is priority and they still miss pages.
Ours are set up so A is for paging channel.
B is for our page channel and our repeater channel.
But if on duty or Vol. and don't want to miss we monitor A our page freq.
Hope this helps you out.
The same goes for a Motorola HT1250 and you set it up for paging they are not very reliable because my be on another channel when the alert tones are sent by the center. If you miss part of the tones you don't get the page. So even if priority channel you may completely miss the call.
2fan

 

[ofd8001]

Yep, the Minitor V can do tone control on both frequencies. I think the technical term for that is "Silent Scan".
If I was a betting guy, I'd say one of the reasons they came up with that was to provide a means to comply with the National Fire Protection Association Standard on Emergency Services Communications. Departments making more than 730 calls each year are supposed to have two dispatching circuits. The Insurance Services Office folks around these parts take that to mean a volunteer or off duty career firefighter has to monitor two different radio channels.

The concern about not hearing a dispatch on channel 2 when channel 1 is active is correct. However if you are getting them for that second dispatch frequency, that means you need them when channel 1 is not working, and channel 2 is the back up dispatch channel. So a broken channel probably won't keep you from hearing channel 2. But, I was thinking that "silent scan" isn't a priority scanning. Even if both channels are active, it scans both. If the right tone sequence happens, the pager alerts. I'm not betting the farm on that though.

Having said that, our fire department sits on the county line. Our dispatch service is handled by one county on one frequency. We do automatic mutual aid with a department on the other side of the county line. That means they are being dispatched on a different channel. So we have found it helpful to be scanning (in tone control mode) to "our" dispatch channel and "their" dispatch channel. That way we aren't packing two pagers.

We haven't missed anything thus far, as far as I know.

 

[n9upc]

I would only add that if you are thinking that it will alert on ch 1 and then be able to switch over to ch 2 if your tones go off on that channel WHILE a carrier is still active on ch 1 then no.

The silent scan is a feature the M5 was proud of and the additional tone slots and different alerts.

However when in silent scan you need to ask which is the more important freq (i.e. ch 1 or 2) especially if you have a set-up where not only is it a paging freq but has comms on it also!

 

[bigdoggg]

Thanks,
I carry 2 pagers right now. One with fire and one with Rescue. I was looking to get both channels with the tones for both in one pager because 2 pagers kina looks tacky! LoL

Thanks again!
Now I just have to find a cheap Minitor V that will do this!

 

[62Truck]

Youre lucky you have a pager, my dept wont even issue me one cause im on duty crew not back up approved, but they issued new M5's to the paid staff who cant respond to back up calls, which baffles me.

 

[WA4MJF]

ofd8001, our dept has Vs, but we also have an alpha numeric Advisor II on another frequency for the two methods compliance. We just have one freq tone in the Vs. It would be a real PITA to just depend on voice, the Advisor II is the one that I rely upon.