Our county uses XTS2500's, currently they have individual "Channels" for each station's paging as a basic codeplug. I was wondering if there was any way to set up one single "paging" channel that would alert for more than one department (as I'm on two departments)
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Multiple department paging with XTS2500
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Which radio system?
Well... I'm not an expert - but I know you can stack tones for multiple departments on QCII, I think, so that as it goes through the tones when your department's come on it alerts. Maybe set up a scan for both channels?
Really something you'd have to deal with your communications director or dispatch center about, especially that first method with stacked tones.
Really something you'd have to deal with your communications director or dispatch center about, especially that first method with stacked tones.
This sounds like someone's work around to "page" via individual station talk groups on a TRS. I have heard similar setups used for station alerting on a TRS as they couldn't "page" stations using QC or other tones as they did on a conventional system.
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