Just got an HT1250 off ebay. First motorola radio, still learning how this all works. I have a couple of questions.
1. Is there any way to get one of the front buttons to send out a QCII page? In the CPS I see that it can be set to Radio Call but I can't specify my QCII system. Is there some way of doing this or am I just going to have to scroll through and select after pressing P1?
2. I don't actually hear the true AFSK for rx'd MDC1200. The radio appears to be substituting some kind of chirp sound for the actual data. Is this the same as data muting? (Muting implies that it's quieted or silenced rather than replaced, at least to me with a musical background.)
3. I volunteer for an ambulance squad in my town. With selective calling, can I program the QCII tones for my squad in and have the radio alert when it hears them but over an open channel? I.e. the radio doesn't wait for the tones to unsquelch, it just plays everything that happens on the channel and then alerts when it hears the tones. If this is possible, what settings would I have to use?
Thank you!
PS my programming cable hasn't arrived yet so I haven't actually been able to try any of this. Hoping it will actually work... I've heard some things about CPS and Windows 7 x86... plus I'm a Mac user so it's running in a virtual machine... this may take some doing...
1. Is there any way to get one of the front buttons to send out a QCII page? In the CPS I see that it can be set to Radio Call but I can't specify my QCII system. Is there some way of doing this or am I just going to have to scroll through and select after pressing P1?
2. I don't actually hear the true AFSK for rx'd MDC1200. The radio appears to be substituting some kind of chirp sound for the actual data. Is this the same as data muting? (Muting implies that it's quieted or silenced rather than replaced, at least to me with a musical background.)
3. I volunteer for an ambulance squad in my town. With selective calling, can I program the QCII tones for my squad in and have the radio alert when it hears them but over an open channel? I.e. the radio doesn't wait for the tones to unsquelch, it just plays everything that happens on the channel and then alerts when it hears the tones. If this is possible, what settings would I have to use?
Thank you!
PS my programming cable hasn't arrived yet so I haven't actually been able to try any of this. Hoping it will actually work... I've heard some things about CPS and Windows 7 x86... plus I'm a Mac user so it's running in a virtual machine... this may take some doing...