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Paging from Base Station

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wd8chl

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The radio shop should make sure ALL of the pagers have been narrow banded correctly. And the levels at the base stations need to be set correctly as well. The standard for paging tones is 60% of maximum deviation for a given bandwidth. So for current NB analog standard, you would set the tones at +/-1.5 KHz deviation, not counting any CTCSS deviation. Also make sure that it's as flat as possible, especially if your using higher or lower tone frequencies. Ideally, they should do an audio sweep from 300 to 3000 Hz and make sure that it stays as flat as possible across that range. I would say about 5% would be my tolerance for that.
 

billdozer

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my county has a simplex freq for paging, but my town is in a low dead spot so we either dont get the pages or we hear tones but cant understand a word of the page.. we now have a repeater set up on the same freq but it did little good, were still trying to figure it out, the radio people that we have just want money but cant solve our problem, our dispatch sends first page over simplex then a second over the repeater..sometimes we hear the simplex page better than our own repeater. a lot of our problems began surfacing after the narrow band reqirement... Maby our radio guys set something up wrong?? i might be off a little bit on some of the details here as im still learning about t;his kind of stuff,
 
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