NYPD Priority Tones?

[willr10]

Anyone know if this is a motorola thing or something they created? Anyone have a sample recording of these tones? They usually come on the radio before a 10-13.

 

[ff026]

The tone that is transmitted before all 10-13 broadcast's is a holdover from the old consoles and was included when they upgraded to the centra com consoles. From what I remember it was a custom tone created by Motorola from the original consoles.

 

[willr10]

Can't seem to find a recording of it anywhere!

 

[ff026]

Well the feed that I provide is archived and can be downloaded so I'm sure you can find it in there and cut out the tone

 

[radioman2001]

The original 10-13 alert tones from the old consoles were built by the NYPD radio shop in the 1960's. I'm sure Motorola had to SP the new consoles for their unique alert tone. I will tell you it doesn't quite sound the same as the old original, I miss that.

 

[willr10]

Yeah I will get the Highway feed into iTunes and that just try to set to a continuous recording. There has got to be a 10-13 unconfirmed and unverified eventually.

 

[radioman2001]

You might try SOD 1, they put out all broadcasts for 10-13's 10-85's EDP's and emergency responses all over the City. That frequency is a lot busier than anything else in the City.

 

[ff026]

hey radioman, i know that the console's were made in house but were the electronics made by BRAMCO maybe? i cant remeber!

 

[radioman2001]

BRAMCO was a tone encoder manufacturer of that era, but I believe the radio shop basically took discrete components, manufactured a tone encoder and then made some sort of astable multivibrator circuit to switch the tone on and off.

 

[jmv3085]

Was anyone able to make the recording?

 

[willr10]

I subscribed to the SOD feed and play it on iTunes and then got Audio Hijack to record the feed to sift through it later but if I am gone for 8 hours from my computer that is 8 hours of data to go through so it is really a pain. I will have to do it on a saturday night or something. Plenty of 85's and 13's come over on Saturday nights so it shouldn't be too hard but it will take a while.

 

[ThaBronx1]

you will probably get it within the first ten mintues of your recording..lol

 

[willr10]

If anyone heard one come over between 9am-3pm today let me know it would be helpful to not have to go through nearly 6 hours of audio.

 

[garys]

Is the tone you're talking about five or six beeps in a row?

 

[willr10]

Definitely. They are maybe 5-7 quick beeps.

 

[garys]

Definitely. They are maybe 5-7 quick beeps.

Thanks. I heard it about half an hour ago on the RR Citywide feed. If you're recording, you might start searching around 5:30PM.