I have a tone coming across a single talkgroup at 10-second intervals on a trunked system. The radios on this talkgroup are not displaying any messages, and dispatch is not seeing any particular radio broadcasting any alarms. This happened about two months ago and only lasted for a day. Now that it has started again, it has been continuous for about two weeks straight, and I am at the end of my rope. I was dropped into this role with no training outside of using CPS, so I am still learning. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Talkgroup Tone? Help
- Thread starter Reno6336
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Do you have a wireline console? If so check to see if "Channel Marker" is activated.
And I'm pretty sure that's what it is. When I used to be on call a certain agency would accidently turn it on, not know what the beep every 10 seconds was and contact the on call tech...usually at 2 AM.
It may be called "Marker Tone". It's been a while.
Go to your communications dispatch center, turn off channel marker and then remove the button from the screen. Unless it is actually used, it's just simply not necessary to have on the screen for this exact reason.
After that, find the idiot who left it on the screen during staging and kick 'em where the sun don't shine.
After that, find the idiot who left it on the screen during staging and kick 'em where the sun don't shine.
You are very welcome!
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