Toms River EMS (paid) now uses the Alert tones from the 1972 TV show Emergency.Ask your parents,or Me TV
Toms River EMS"Emergency"
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Update:it has now been removed from EMS,and used as a play toy on the Fire dispatch.
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Quik Call-I was an awful alerting system. It used to false easily. Rockland County and Northampton County used to use the format. Los Angeles couldn't wait to ditch it. The old CentraCom II consoles had the capability of doing QC-1. The "Squad 51" tone was Group Z, tones "ELFH" which activated an old Wheelock Signals (of Long Branch) buzzer. The buzzer noise wasn't sent over the air, but was what the tone sequence activated at the firehouse.
Rockland County used QCI to activate the firehouse whistles/horns, as well as trigger a local encoder at most firehouses to rebroadcast the QCII tones, which activated the pagers. This was done to both "extend" the range of the county's low band transmitter*, as well as to provide positive confirmation to the dispatcher that the whistle/horns were activated. Falsing was never much of an issue, but then again the entire system was meticulously maintained with the levels and transmitter deviation dialed in. Around 2012 the QCI tones were deprecated in favor of Knox format DTMF, performing the same function. In 2014 the T-Band paging simulcast came online, and at the end of 2019 the low band transmitters were taken offline.
* Back in the day there was only a single base station in the center of the county, and coverage in areas like Orangetown and Sloatsburg was weak; later rectified by installing remote transmitters, and ultimately the T-Band simulcast replaced it all.
* Back in the day there was only a single base station in the center of the county, and coverage in areas like Orangetown and Sloatsburg was weak; later rectified by installing remote transmitters, and ultimately the T-Band simulcast replaced it all.
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That's a shame. I used to hear them from all over (basically everywhere except Rockland - that's like Mahwah when they were on 33.86, you could hear them everywhere, except in Mahwah). The only low band I ever worked on was at Lederle when they had their own fire department on campus. They had a low band Micor base there, but that was maybe 30 years ago.
Yup, Dept 51 on the fire radio (KGV296), they were the de facto HazMat team for the county prior to what was basically the disbanding of the brigade circa 2008, and the county already having formed their own team. Somewhere in my collection I have a photo of myself standing next to 51-1500 while we were operating at a fire at Teplitz in the early 90s...good times.
Lederle Laboratories - Rockland Apparatus
Super off topic, not even the same state!
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You're welcome.Super off topic, not even the same state!
Had it as a ring tone for the alarm companies at my old job.
But when they were rousted out of bed for an alarm at night they overlaid the tones as well as the Wheelock buzzer.
I remember my home town FD, Kearny, NJ, was on 46.18 with Rockland Co. Many of their apparatus were open-cab ALF through the late 70s. They had the horn-type speakers mounted on the enging housing. When there were multiple apparatus at a job and they PLs were disabled the QCI tones sounded sweet. And the signal from Rockland was full-quieting in Kearny which is across the river from Newark.
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I grew up a few miles northeast of you. Yeah, they would only have awakened to the buzzer and not the tones, but it's only a TV show. Remember Northampton County coming through Newark's repeater on 154.13? They had lots of QC1, too.
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