TV Show Emergency Station 51 Tones
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mmckenna
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Before another local agency took over our fire department, I had two tone set up for our station alerting.
During the day time, the radio was set so that all traffic was heard through the speakers, including the two tone alert.
At night, they'd switch to a second channel that had everything but their tones muted.
So, yes, depending on how they were set up, the could have heard the tones during the day.
But, it's TV and anything goes on TV, even if it doesn't make sense.
During the day time, the radio was set so that all traffic was heard through the speakers, including the two tone alert.
At night, they'd switch to a second channel that had everything but their tones muted.
So, yes, depending on how they were set up, the could have heard the tones during the day.
But, it's TV and anything goes on TV, even if it doesn't make sense.
Ha! My little brother and I would watch that with our dad. When the tones blared we would suddenly mimic it and drive the old man crazy.
Just want to add that when in muted mode, you don’t hear any radio traffic until you hear the station alerting system go off. In this case, it would be the buzzer. Once the buzzer sounds, all radio traffic is heard. After three minutes, the radio would automatically go back to mute mode.
mmckenna
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My brother and I had the board game, lunch boxes, I think we even dressed up as Roy and John for halloween one year. I'll still stop and watch it if it comes on.
kny2xb
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I loved that show
I was going to fly out in January for the 50th anniversary of the premiere broadcast, but it was postponed
So, I bought myself the complete series on DVD as a consolation
I have the claxon/tones as my ringtone
I was going to fly out in January for the 50th anniversary of the premiere broadcast, but it was postponed
So, I bought myself the complete series on DVD as a consolation
I have the claxon/tones as my ringtone
I recall I was bored and used a decoder once. Not sure if it's accurate but these were what it decoded with the episode which threw these ones out.
389.0, 651.9
1930.2, 1092.4
651.9, 584.8
389.0, 651.9
1930.2, 1092.4
651.9, 584.8
You can find a archive of all the LA tones at Police Interceptor.Com
Station 22 (FPGK) (NOTE - This was the tone for "Engine 51" as used in the Emergency TV series)
The same site also has some navy alarm sounds. I used one of them for a general alarm for a system crash warning at work, that ended when a new employee was from the navy. He jumped to attention when it sounded so I had to change it!
Station 22 (FPGK) (NOTE - This was the tone for "Engine 51" as used in the Emergency TV series)
The same site also has some navy alarm sounds. I used one of them for a general alarm for a system crash warning at work, that ended when a new employee was from the navy. He jumped to attention when it sounded so I had to change it!
ecps92
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including taking an ole Regency Crystal scanner and pushing the buttons [on/off] to simulate programming it
During one of the EMS seminars I had to attend to keep my certification, Randolph Mantooth (John Gage) did a presentation. About half of the attendees were old enough to have seen the 'EMERGENCY!' show. I had a one-on-one cup of coffee with him.
Watching that show now, I regularly jump up and scream something like "NO, YOU FOOLS! Don't go into the hazmat spill with your street shoes! Don't just yank the accident victim out!" (Times, and emergency procedures have changed!)
Watching that show now, I regularly jump up and scream something like "NO, YOU FOOLS! Don't go into the hazmat spill with your street shoes! Don't just yank the accident victim out!" (Times, and emergency procedures have changed!)
As others have noted, yes, it's probable. Depending on the alerting receiver in use, it's fairly common for all traffic to be heard during the day, but still sound the klaxon when that station's tones are received even though the receiver is in monitor mode. The receivers we used here would beep when our tones were received whether the audio was muted or not.
Ditto. And I've got the entire series in the home DVD collection. Emergency is why I got into this crazy public safety business in the first place, starting with dispatching then fire/EMS. In fact, I unconsciously dispatched fire/EMS runs like Sam Lanier (the dispatcher on Emergency) did; didn't realize it until someone pointed it out to me. I didn't stop, though....
I do that too. I also go bananas when I see them doing stuff without their helmets on, or hosing down a car fire without face shields (for which we would have been skinned alive).
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kny2xb
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I use the SCU 2
And how many times did they talk on their HT with the antenna fully collapsed, or Capt. Stanley talk into the back of the station's mic?
Still, along with ADAM 12, EMERGENCY! remains one of my all time favorite action shows. Both came from Jack Webb's Mark VII Productions.
As a news photographer, I still remember the days of LAFD sweeping up or hosing down a HAZMAT and sending a couple of engines on a brush response. And does anyone remember LAFD's Digicom signaling that used to go out over the regular low band system?
"L.A. clear, KMG 941"
Still, along with ADAM 12, EMERGENCY! remains one of my all time favorite action shows. Both came from Jack Webb's Mark VII Productions.
As a news photographer, I still remember the days of LAFD sweeping up or hosing down a HAZMAT and sending a couple of engines on a brush response. And does anyone remember LAFD's Digicom signaling that used to go out over the regular low band system?
"L.A. clear, KMG 941"
techman210
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Oh, things like this STILL happen.
Both in TV/Movies and in real life.
That was something they likely got unintentionally correct in the TV show!
tvengr
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Skip from Los Angeles used to wipe out one of the Baltimore County MD Police channels. For some reason, the lady dispatcher's voice sounded awful familiar to me. Later, I read that they used one of the LAPD dispatchers to do the dispatching on the Adam 12 TV show.
That reminds of when I was younger and briefly worked in EMS. I had just gotten off shift and went home and crashed. In my dreams I start hearing a beeping sound and part of my unconscious brain was saying “you got a call, get up!!” but another part said “those aren’t your tones, go back to sleep”. I eventually woke up a motioned for my pants but stopped, open the bedroom door to find it was the smoke detector and mom was cooking.
LAPD was on VHF high band at the time--pretty good DX for VHF!
Shaaron Claridge was an American second-shift radiotelephone operator or police radio dispatcher at the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department best known for her voice work on the Adam-12 television series. Claridge was born in Los Angeles County, California. Wikipedia
