Official Fire Tone-Out Discussion

[P-3_Radio_Guy]

Tone document

Hi all,

I havn't had time to review all 29 pages in this thread so if this has been posted before I apoligize.

You may be interested in downloading this chart. It's a compendium of a lot of signalling plans. This helps in getting or gussing the correct tones if you're close.

<http://www.midians.com/pdf/tone_signaling.pdf>

If possible promulgate this to other forums.

Ed T
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[amickey1979]

Fire Tone Out - 396t

I finally got my scanner programmed to alert on my stations tones. I entered the B-Tone in the A-Tone slot and left the B-Tone slot empty for my tones. The B-Tone is excatly 3 seconds long. The county I live in uses a single long(over 3seconds) tone for county wide announcements. I programmed this tone into the B-Tone slot and now get the scanner to alert on county wide announcements to. I just had to play with different combinations in different slots until I got the right one. On another note in order to obtain the tones I used Scanrec and then G-tune 2.5 to record and decode the tones, which they did do accurately. Uniden did certainly make this complicated for those of us who live in areas that the officals will not freely give out the information.

 

[ScannerDude244]

Oops I didn't see I posted this is the bct15 forum here some good software that will decode tones..

Here is software I been using for the past day or so it will decode on the fly good stuff. Andrew from Second Signal did a good job on it here is the link.
btw it's free Scanner Monitor only!

https://www.thenorth.com/clients/nct...nnerkeyrequest

also here is a demo of it running

http://www.thenorth.com/blogpics/demo2.html

 

[DaveNF2G]

The first URL doesn't work (404 error). There are no obvious links between thenorth.com and any sort of radio software.

How did you locate the program?

 

[ScannerDude244]

The first URL doesn't work (404 error). There are no obvious links between thenorth.com and any sort of radio software.

How did you locate the program?

Try this one https://www.thenorth.com/clients/nctsearch/keymaker.nsf/scannerkeyrequest

And it does a lot more than just decode

here is the main site http://www.secondsignal.com/

 

[sgtmatt]

wisconsin paging codes

Hi All,

Does any one have any knowlage of where I can find Grant County Wisconsin paging codes?

Thanks

Matt A

 

[DaveIN]

Hi All,

Does any one have any knowlage of where I can find Grant County Wisconsin paging codes?

Thanks

Matt A

Matt, you can record the tone outs and try to decode them using the programs in the links provided in this thread and you can also check with your count fire department to see if they will provide the information.

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Recording_Software_and_Tips

 

[DaveNF2G]

Thanks, 'Dude. I got it this time.

 

[scanner445]

is there a way you can delete a tone out? i only need one tone out and i have that set but my 396 scans between the one i have set and "Tone-Out 2".

 

[JHaislet]

You can easily do it through the Uniden software on your computer (zero everything out) or you can simply set Tone A & Tone B to 0.0Hz each for Tone-Out 2 and that will disable it as well.

 

[tEd26]

Can u do TONE OUTS on Radioshack scanners to?

 

[UPMan]

No current or past RS models have the tone-out feature.

 

[John_M]

What is the "delay in seconds" for. I have programmed the tones and frequency but as of yet have not heard a tone-out. It is possible that I have the wrong frequency but the tones are known. This is the first time I looked into the tone-out feature.

 

[John_M]

Is it the delay between the tones? I have it set for 2 seconds. BTW Dave, this is for North Greece Fire District. Tones are on:

http://www.nf2g.com/scannist/index.html

I looked and seen that the frequency these tones go out on is 154.310, still don't know what the delay is for.

 

[JHaislet]

If you think you might have the wrong frequency, manually tune your scanner to that frequency and "hold" on it. You should then hear all traffic on that channel, including the pager tone-outs, regardless of the tone sent out.

For example, an entire city's paging system could be on 157.05MHz, and holding on that channel, you could hear all the various public works, fire, and EMS pages.

If you think the town has changed frequencies, try looking up your county in the FCC database. That should give you an idea of where to scan.

 

[John_M]

If I was using my Pro-96 I'd would become familiar with the frequencies again instead of just seeing the alpha tag.

 

[DaveNF2G]

"Delay in seconds" went away several firmware updates ago.

 

[John_M]

That will confuse everybody who is new to the Tone-Out feature being that it is still on the menu.

 

[jkahn]

396 v996 firmware updates

I am probably going to get yelled at for posting this in the Tone-out thread, but the discussion concerned the firmware version differences for loading tone-out info, so.....
I just plunked down my money for a 996 which I will presume has the latest firmware in it, because I did not note any 996 upgrades on their website, while there were a couple for the 396. Are these interchangeable for both units??

Anyway, back on thread, I will try to get info on the Montgomery County MD tones and post them here.

 

[ScannerDude244]

can you lock out tones?