Programing a G4 to Alert

[kc2tvl]

So I received my G4 a couple of weeks ago and I have gotten to do everything I want accept Alert on a 2 Tone pair. I have searched and read, understood and misunderstood, tried, tried and tried again – BUT have failed to get it to Alert.

I am using PPS V0.3.16 Beta22 and G4 firmware V1.31_20201222

I have factory reset the pager, reloaded the firmware and reinstalled the PPS software.

I can listen to it as a scanner, scan silent, monitor the system by the way it is a P25 Phase I

I am reasonably sure that I have the tone frequencies. I have played at several different times and had 2 Tone Detect “analyze” them and I have even created the tones in Audacity coming up with virtually the same results.

I have shortened the “Protocol Parameter Settings” to the shortest and used the second tone as a long tone hoping to get the G4 alert even if its a false alert.

I have even set it to alert on the next higher and lower tones.

I have put the tones in the “2- Tone Phase 2” for giggles and kicks.

I have set the sub-group with the correct talk group, FFFF and no setting

Any ideas what I have missed?

Dave

 

[kearthfan101]

Send some screen shots if you can or upload your pager file. Maybe an audio clip of what the tone pair sounds like. I got my pager to work on a P25 phase 1 tone set, and I can cross reference to see if there are issues.

 

[kc2tvl]

Inside my uniquely named zip file is a wav recording, the pdf output from PPS and the PPS file.

I tried adjusting the tone "protocol parameters" last night to the minimums and I was able to get the pager to alert anytime anyone keyed a mic on the dispatch talkgroup (big annoying ooppss) - this is making me think that I have decoded the tones wrong.

Any help is great appreciated!

 

[Webodisk]

your tone coding is correct, I did notice you have the alert for the TG 6211 set to none, set it to tone and re test

 

[kearthfan101]

Inside my uniquely named zip file is a wav recording, the pdf output from PPS and the PPS file.

I tried adjusting the tone "protocol parameters" last night to the minimums and I was able to get the pager to alert anytime anyone keyed a mic on the dispatch talkgroup (big annoying ooppss) - this is making me think that I have decoded the tones wrong.

Any help is great appreciated!

I personally couldn't find what was wrong (other than trying what Webodisk said). For my setup, I only have one tone on my alert talkgroup so I have it set up as a separate talkgroup as "RED 1 PAGE" with alerts and the specific P25T Phase 1 tone. Maybe you want to try that too? Or setup the knob as just that talkgroup. I also saw there's 5 sites and 51 control channels for that system that you're monitoring. Is it possible your pager is latching onto the wrong site?

 

[kc2tvl]

My G4 is working fine as a scanner- I can hear the talk groups that I want to hear and this site is not a high traffic site - well accept when it is rebroadcasting Polk and Hardee counties and even then even then it really isn't a lot of traffic rarely do I ever see three or more active talk groups (on my RasPi scanner). So I am thinking it is either the wrong tone frequencies or the protocol timing