mike_webb59
Member
I've been messing with my BC246T and CTSS/DCS Search. I know that one can use tones to isolate commonly used frequencies.
Is it possible to "filter" by tones to separate PD/SO from FD/EMS on Public Agency frequencies? I was wondering if it's SOP that the dispatchers used CSQ for regular traffic and then used tones only for FD/EMS, and then if I had identical frequencies, one locked on the tone and one locked out; I can scan for Public Safety on one, and Rescue on the other.
The question is if that process of CSQ/Tones is common in the Conventional Band, or if an agency, *if* it uses tones, uses it for everything.
For example, let's say that there's an entry for Dry Gulch, TX on 155.455, no tones indicated in the RR Database. I plug in CTSS Search, during normal traffic I don't catch a tone and when they dispatch EMS I catch a tone. I copy the frequency and add the tone and call it "Dry Gulch EMS;" and on the remaining copy of the channel I lock out the tone and call it "Dry Gulch SO." Will that work?
Thanks, Mike
Is it possible to "filter" by tones to separate PD/SO from FD/EMS on Public Agency frequencies? I was wondering if it's SOP that the dispatchers used CSQ for regular traffic and then used tones only for FD/EMS, and then if I had identical frequencies, one locked on the tone and one locked out; I can scan for Public Safety on one, and Rescue on the other.
The question is if that process of CSQ/Tones is common in the Conventional Band, or if an agency, *if* it uses tones, uses it for everything.
For example, let's say that there's an entry for Dry Gulch, TX on 155.455, no tones indicated in the RR Database. I plug in CTSS Search, during normal traffic I don't catch a tone and when they dispatch EMS I catch a tone. I copy the frequency and add the tone and call it "Dry Gulch EMS;" and on the remaining copy of the channel I lock out the tone and call it "Dry Gulch SO." Will that work?
Thanks, Mike