shutting off fire tones

[jdc50]

Is there a way to shut off the tones fire departments use to dispatch rigs? I am using a 296D. The wife does not like to hear the tones all the time?

Thanks

 

[LarrySC]

Either turn off the scanner or turn off the wife.

 

[Voyager]

Either turn off the scanner or turn off the wife.

Turning off the wife wouldn't help unless she left the room. :wink:

Maybe turning her ON might help ease the aversion. :wink: :wink:

Your only hope is that IF (very slim chance) they set the system up right and turn off any CTCSS/CDCSS when transmitting the paging tones, you could program in the CTCSS/CDCSS they use and keep from hearing them. BUT, very few systems are set up that way. Most just transmit the tones with the CTCSS/CDCSS still encoding.

Joe M.