Is there a way to set up different 2 tone paging alert based on zone? What I would like to do is set Zone 1 for our county and monitoring North Fire-ground channels and alert for my department only, I am good with that (after much trial and error) but I would like to make Zone 2 monitor south fire-ground channels (obviously with dispatch) and alert for 3 departments one of which is mine. Is there a way to set this up? I would think it would require 2 different two tone paging profiles but I have not dug in to see if you can create 2 separate paging protocols.
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Multiple 2-tone paging
- Thread starter Rheems1
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This is even posted in the Motorola Pager information.
1. Scanning and 2tone page tones are not a good idea.
2. Most Commercial Pagers can use up to 4 page codes on a Frequency.
3. I would only do this if the Dispatch Frequency is the same for all 3 Departments.
Short Paging Lesson 2 tone works on 2 things 1 TONE 2 Timing (Tone Length) any of the 3 are wrong Pager will not ALERT Scanning can cause you to miss 1/2 second of a tone and you miss the ALERT.
1. Scanning and 2tone page tones are not a good idea.
2. Most Commercial Pagers can use up to 4 page codes on a Frequency.
3. I would only do this if the Dispatch Frequency is the same for all 3 Departments.
Short Paging Lesson 2 tone works on 2 things 1 TONE 2 Timing (Tone Length) any of the 3 are wrong Pager will not ALERT Scanning can cause you to miss 1/2 second of a tone and you miss the ALERT.
I should have mentioned it is all the same P25 Trunking system, I just want dispatch to alert on 2 more companies in Zone 2 but not Zone 1. I may have figured it out
2tone paging on a P25 Trunking System is not a PROJECT for a Do it Yourself. You are talking Life Safety that puts you 100% liable for Communication Alerts or lack of Alerts this should be done by a LICENSED TRAINED RADIO SHOP.
in my g5 I have the entire countys two tone groups listed on the specific page and binding feature set to subgroup. then the assigned channels that you want the tones on, set with those subgroups attached. I have had no issue with the way mine works and will go from TG to TG alerting as necessary
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I have a G5 and my county dispatches for multiple depts. How can I figure out tones for certain depts so I don't have to listen to all depts getting toned out?
I have the newest firmware. How do I set this up
if you have it turned on in programming, go to the channel you want to decode the tones on, then main menu > digital tone detect, turn that on, and then let that run until your tones go off again it will display on the screen, and you can see a history 
In this photo 3-4 are your tones
P2 is phase 2 - tone group 11 (the setting you use when programming it later) - and 593.75 is the exact tone it decoded
In this photo 3-4 are your tones
P2 is phase 2 - tone group 11 (the setting you use when programming it later) - and 593.75 is the exact tone it decoded
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I do all this through the scanner or pps?
It says PC Connected when in pps and can't get out of that.
So apparently my version of firmware does not provide that because I ion see that option under main menu
So apparently I had to turn it on in the pps. A tone came over, but all it said was start of voice, end of voice
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Yeah 1910 and 0000
