I am wondering if anybody have a tone out list for montco for fire and Ems? I see that delco and Chester county have a list of fire tone out on the wiki. I have a scanner that I want to program the fire tone out. Thank you
Montgomery county pa fire and Ems tones list
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I haven't looked recently, but IIRC, Edgehill Fire Company (Abington Township) had a link on their website with all the toneouts.
John
Peoria, AZ
John
Peoria, AZ
CommJunkie
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If there is a list somewhere, I'm happy to add it to the wiki. I only added Delco and Chesco because I listen to them and can decode them.
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I found one page where the owner generated at least an approximation of the tones:
Montgomery County Fire Tones
Here's his Bucks County page:
Station 2
Maybe you could send an email to Eagleville and politely ask for a list?
John
Peoria, AZ
Montgomery County Fire Tones
Here's his Bucks County page:
Station 2
Maybe you could send an email to Eagleville and politely ask for a list?
John
Peoria, AZ
I saw that list when I search for tone out list but it has the old tones but no list. If you email the eagleville you probably won't get back to you about that list. I will email to to see if they have a list?
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Did you send the email? Any response?
John
Peoria, AZ
John
Peoria, AZ
I have a question for Chester county tone out list on wiki page. I have a voice pager minitor 6 and I am trying to program a tone out for this company. I just want fire I see on wiki ( for example tone A 634.5 I see what is tone b the fire tone out or the fire siren number.
If anybody knows message back?
If anybody knows message back?
I can tell you that list of tones are not the current ones. When MontCo went to one vhf freq for dispatch they changed the A/B tones.
Yea I see that it is not the current list. I am wonder if anybody have a current list of tones? It seems that Montgomery county is always hard to find? if anybody knows private message me,
thanks
thanks
WOW those pages are mine! I totally forgot they still existed. Talk about blast from the past
Thebigphish
So are you going to make a list for Montgomery county? Is that what are you trying to say? That would but helpful!!
So are you going to make a list for Montgomery county? Is that what are you trying to say? That would but helpful!!
...I already placeholder'd the wiki, and started a stub page.
I've got 500+ dispatches in the last 3 days to go thru, most of the EMS ones will be cake - as they are usually solo-dispatches and really easy to figure out. The harder ones will be smaller run FDs, as they are frequently added in to other pages w/ mutual aid companies...those I'll have to work out. What really stinks is that the FD pages are all stacked, and i've noticed some dispatchers repeat them out of order on call outs, so it's a guessing game.
Then, there's the depts who use seemingly 8 different sets of tones, talk about fun!
I've got 500+ dispatches in the last 3 days to go thru, most of the EMS ones will be cake - as they are usually solo-dispatches and really easy to figure out. The harder ones will be smaller run FDs, as they are frequently added in to other pages w/ mutual aid companies...those I'll have to work out. What really stinks is that the FD pages are all stacked, and i've noticed some dispatchers repeat them out of order on call outs, so it's a guessing game.
Then, there's the depts who use seemingly 8 different sets of tones, talk about fun!
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Montgomery County (PA) Quick Call II tone sets - The RadioReference Wiki
here's a start.
Many of the smaller EMS agencies are utilizing more tone sets than they have units on status, which compounds issues. It appears to be that they are using administrative tone sets as well as station assignments for cover calls, scratches or mutual assistance. The only easy way that could be solved would be an agency stepping forward and filling in the info, or Eagleville Rd offers some assistance.
Moving the dispatching from 46.04 to 158.355 could have just been a frequency change, I don't think the forcing of new frequency tone-sets upon the agencies was the nicest thing to do.
here's a start.
Many of the smaller EMS agencies are utilizing more tone sets than they have units on status, which compounds issues. It appears to be that they are using administrative tone sets as well as station assignments for cover calls, scratches or mutual assistance. The only easy way that could be solved would be an agency stepping forward and filling in the info, or Eagleville Rd offers some assistance.
Moving the dispatching from 46.04 to 158.355 could have just been a frequency change, I don't think the forcing of new frequency tone-sets upon the agencies was the nicest thing to do.
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I can tell you some of them are wrong.... When they went from low band to high band with EMS, everyone got new station alert units and a few minitor 6's. They changed the tones and it wasn't that big of a deal as the everyone carries an alpha for the most part and very few are carrying voice pagers, Typically the Officers
for ems you typically have : All call , duty crew and Officers tone sets
The duty crew tones is used for typical dispatch. When there is a cover , they drop the duty crew tones AND All call tones. In some cases, for ems responding to fires, they will use duty crew tones and Officer tones stacked..
for ems you typically have : All call , duty crew and Officers tone sets
The duty crew tones is used for typical dispatch. When there is a cover , they drop the duty crew tones AND All call tones. In some cases, for ems responding to fires, they will use duty crew tones and Officer tones stacked..
every one of those tone-sets has been paged out in the last 72 hours, and then recorded - cross matched to closest moto equiv.
I am well aware that the tone sets changed when MCDPS changed frequencies. They didn't have to, but they did...
If they are listed wrong on the wiki, it's a small clerical error on my end. All I had to go on was the detected tone frequency, and then a voice dispatch - so there is tons of leeway on it. What I can't tell you from the limited information I had at hand was who was using All - call, officers or duty crew page outs, not every agency uses them in that manner - so it's all extrapolated information.
I am well aware that the tone sets changed when MCDPS changed frequencies. They didn't have to, but they did...
If they are listed wrong on the wiki, it's a small clerical error on my end. All I had to go on was the detected tone frequency, and then a voice dispatch - so there is tons of leeway on it. What I can't tell you from the limited information I had at hand was who was using All - call, officers or duty crew page outs, not every agency uses them in that manner - so it's all extrapolated information.
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I can confirm one set is wrong as I look at my printout from MontCo with our tones.
I am not authorized to post that specific tone information without getting authorization from my department heads.
Have you tried a FOI on the information?
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I am not authorized to post that specific tone information without getting authorization from my department heads.
Have you tried a FOI on the information?
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It's a wiki. It's collaborative information. I just monitored a publicly accessible radio freq for a couple of hours, listened to approx an hour of recorded dispatch, and threw that together.
I'm sure there's more than one that is incorrect - sorry its yours, but I don't really have any wanton desire to even waste my time with an FOI for this. This was a little bit of a time-waster. Someone out there may want to take the ball and run with it, I just took a shot in the dark.
I'm sure there will be secret squirrel types out there crying foul, but analog is already interoperable - and damn near public domain.
I'm sure there's more than one that is incorrect - sorry its yours, but I don't really have any wanton desire to even waste my time with an FOI for this. This was a little bit of a time-waster. Someone out there may want to take the ball and run with it, I just took a shot in the dark.
I'm sure there will be secret squirrel types out there crying foul, but analog is already interoperable - and damn near public domain.
No need to get all angry about it. My company has policies that I follow. I was just informing you that your list is incorrect and that there may be an easier way to get the information you seek.
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