Sleep Deprived

[radioz]

I'm just a dumb Huey pilot trying to EMS (Earn Money Sleeping"). Someone please help.

Can I get our CDM1250 to "sleep" until my base is toned-out...like our HT1250's when they are in range?

Presently I'm forced to listen to all dispatch traffic so not to miss my alert. At nearer bases where our HT1250 can hit a tower, their "Sleep Channel" can be selected and nothing gets through but its tone. At this point you know the call is for you and then we switch off to normal dispatch channel and get the details.

At a remote base the HT's won't work so I've had installed a CDM1250 to listen-up and then we use a repeater to talk through another channel on our HT1250's.

Can not the CDM1250 do the same as HT1250's...perhaps even more?

What do we call these features in Motorola lingo? Will CDM 1250 do these types of things? Can I program them myself...I have some experience with CPS software used on our helicopter's tactical radios.

What would be really cool is to have our already employed discrete alert tone come through and then automatically turn sleep off until reset. This way the remote channel used on HT's would then be able to reply.

 

[AZScanner]

Maybe something a bit more low tech is the answer, like a BR330T or 396T with fire tone out? You could monitor on the scanner and then use the base radio to respond. Kinda overkill for what you want, but it should do the trick. An added bonus would be the ability to monitor other agencies when needed.

-AZ

 

[radioz]

Well, we already have the equipment and need to try and get it to work if possible.

 

[BryanTheRed]

I'm just a dumb Huey pilot trying to EMS (Earn Money Sleeping"). Someone please help.

Can I get our CDM1250 to "sleep" until my base is toned-out...like our HT1250's when they are in range?

Presently I'm forced to listen to all dispatch traffic so not to miss my alert. At nearer bases where our HT1250 can hit a tower, their "Sleep Channel" can be selected and nothing gets through but its tone. At this point you know the call is for you and then we switch off to normal dispatch channel and get the details.

At a remote base the HT's won't work so I've had installed a CDM1250 to listen-up and then we use a repeater to talk through another channel on our HT1250's.

Can not the CDM1250 do the same as HT1250's...perhaps even more?

What do we call these features in Motorola lingo? Will CDM 1250 do these types of things? Can I program them myself...I have some experience with CPS software used on our helicopter's tactical radios.

What would be really cool is to have our already employed discrete alert tone come through and then automatically turn sleep off until reset. This way the remote channel used on HT's would then be able to reply.

Well first off what you are describing is Quick Call II, Motorolas paging format. I am not certain but I do not see why the CDM1250 would not have QCII. IF it does then yes what you are describing can be done, you are simply setting one channel up as a "pager"

 

[BryanTheRed]

After looking at the specs, yes the radio can do what you want. You will need the tones used to page out your squad.

 

[RESCUE4NFD]

Can't you have the Radio Tech. that services your radio system give you a hand?...

 

[CCHLLM]

The CDM series has both encoding and decoding (signalling) capability, and it's all as simple as programming. As suggested, the radio techs should be able to do the trick. Word of advice from an old fire/rescue responder and MotherMoto radio tech: add another channel to the list, duplicate the normal dispatch channel's parameters, and add the parameters to make that the QC II decode channel. When you lie down for the snooze, place the radio on that channel and set the decoder. Reason being is that there is no change to the incumbent programming in the radio and everything still functions as selected for those that ain't with the program. If they don't like the change, they can always select the original channel and be fat, dumb, and happy. Also, if desired and depending on your particular circumstances, make the decoder reset a manual function rather than an auto function so that a conscious action has to take place to shut it up. I'm sure there'll be some objections here to that suggestion, but if we're not working under the exact protocols and circumstances you are and the people you have to live with, we can't advise you on suitable settings options for your situation.

 

[ResQguy]

You should be able to drag the info from your HT1250s into the CDM1250. The easiest thing would be to program the whole codeplug identically to the radios you already know work the way you want.

 

[UFEMTFF]

Just to echo everyone else's posts, I had a CDM1250 set up at our rescue station (at the time had 2 different rescues with two different tone QCII tone pairs). We had the radio programed with the following frequencies:

Tact 1 - Open
Tact 4 - Open
Tact 1 Medic 1 - Tone outs only
Tact 1 Medic 4 - Tone outs only
Tact 1 Medic 1 and Medic 4 - Tone outs only

The radio was set so that you had to click the transmit button to reset after a page. This was pretty cool because it let you monitor all pages and normal ops if you wanted (Tact 1) or monitor the Fireground frequency (Tact 4).

Also, it let you have the radio "shut up" unless certain units were paged. We set it up this way because sometimes the station would have both units on duty at night, and other times it was only one of the units. This way, whatever units were on duty could set it to only hear their pages.