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TK-7180 Encode Tones

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I am trying to update a mobile radio with my department's current dispatching tones. When I enter the tone Hz, both tones get changed by the software. Is there a setting/way for me to enter the tones in the software and not have it changed? The first tone is a few numbers lower. The second tone is still lower, but not by that much. The first tone is below the Hz listed as the lower range limit.
 

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Yes, page out tones. They are entered on the 2-tone screen under the encode tab.

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Pagers do the same thing. It all has to do with the algorithms in the tone synthesizer vs. the particular tone system being used.

It is possible for you to change the tone system in the radio, say from Motorola to Plectron? That normally brings the tones right on in pager programming.

If not, an approximate 1% variation in the tone frequency should not matter. Program it and test it. You may find that it works just fine. We use a mix of tones from Motorola QC-II and Plectron tone plans. In our Motorola radios, the tones program in correctly regardless of type, but in our pagers, they're off a bit. Everything decodes fine.
 

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What are the tones that you are trying to program?

Example being 100.0 hz or 1350 hz.
 

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I don't have the file with me but I think it is 281.5 and 485.1. The software bumps it up to 288.5 and 488.5 (or about there...don't remember the decimal). I couldn't find a Motorola/Plectron setting in the radio software.

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I don't have the file with me but I think it is 281.5 and 485.1. The software bumps it up to 288.5 and 488.5 (or about there...don't remember the decimal). I couldn't find a Motorola/Plectron setting in the radio software.

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I think your problem may be in the other direction...

Where did you get your tone information? The numbers you are trying to enter are not listed on any of my tone plan charts.

The numbers that your software is converting them to seem to be Motorola standard QC-II tones. 288.5 is from Reed Group 3. I think you may have misread or mistyped the 488.5. Take a closer look; it may well be 483.5 which is from Reed Group 1.
 

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I think your problem may be in the other direction...

Where did you get your tone information? The numbers you are trying to enter are not listed on any of my tone plan charts.

The numbers that your software is converting them to seem to be Motorola standard QC-II tones. 288.5 is from Reed Group 3. I think you may have misread or mistyped the 488.5. Take a closer look; it may well be 483.5 which is from Reed Group 1.
The tones are from.the department. The numbers that they were changed to was from the software. I don't remember the exact numbers thebsodtware changes them to, as I did not have the software open in front of me when I posted.

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Most radios and pagers that handle QC tones only go down to 300 HZ. You most likely cannot enter tones into a mobile to page out due to your tones. Been there, done that...


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Ok, Now I know what we are working with....

281.7 426.8 is FIRE

You have somewhat of a coverage area dropping tones from a mobile/portable now with the repeater, but unless they raised the antenna on the tower which was planned, you may still only hit the whole borough... maybe... What is the status of that anyway?

The tones are below standard. They are ZETRON so the plectron, motorola, etc settings usually brings up their brand tones. You either have to select user or custom when programming tones as low as this (if the radio will even accept them). Most pagers (some do not) will take those tones. The vertex portables can be tricked into those tones.

This is why I was trying to swap the the tones during the repeater transition to fix this in the future. The good thing is that there (was/is) a tone encoder at the firehouse in an emergency backup.
 

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The new tower is up and running. I was looking for a custom setting in the software, but couldn't find one. I was hoping someone in here might know. I might just program that radio to set off the new tones.

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The new tower is up and running. I was looking for a custom setting in the software, but couldn't find one. I was hoping someone in here might know. I might just program that radio to set off the new tones.

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Glad the tower is up. Did it improve coveragw by alot?

Yea, I believe that the radio is just not capable of it.

Theres NEW AND OLD tones? Are you guys using both?

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Still using the old ones, but I've programmed all the pagers with the new tones too so that few, if any, would need to be reprogrammed if we switched to the new ones.

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Still using the old ones, but I've programmed all the pagers with the new tones too so that few, if any, would need to be reprogrammed if we switched to the new ones.

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Ahhh good idea... yea, the new ones are your best bet. The cdms as the base can do the new tones as well.

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