Two-Tone Data - Southern Alberta

[Jay911]

With the BCD396T and its Tone-Out function now available, I'm collecting what I can to catalog Fire/EMS/etc tone-outs. I'm willing to share information so long as information is shared in return.

I have (and have posted in the RRDB) some or all data for the stations under Calgary Fire and EMS Dispatch (M.D. Rocky View, and M.D. Bighorn), Kananaskis Emergency Services, those stations dispatched by STARS (Mountain View County), those stations dispatched by the Foothills Regional Emergency Services Commission (M.D. Foothills, M.D. Willow Creek, M.D. Ranchlands), and those stations dispatched by Strathmore Fire/EMS (Wheatland County and Siksika Nation). I'm looking for details on those, or any others in Southern Alberta. If you know what the numbers are - in any format, I can 'decode' them to whatever format I need - and/or if you have actual .wav/.mp3 files of fire/EMS/other departments being paged, please get in touch with me, and I'll compile them into one big list for the whole area/region. (The tone data, not the actual sound files.)

Thanks!

 

[electricsheep]

When you are monitoring these two tone codes, they are on the same frequencies that the pagers the EMS/Fire guys carry on their belts and in the trucks, or is it for the station tone outs on frequencies specifically for that purpose?

 

[Jay911]

When you are monitoring these two tone codes, they are on the same frequencies that the pagers the EMS/Fire guys carry on their belts and in the trucks, or is it for the station tone outs on frequencies specifically for that purpose?

In Calgary and area, the tones are usually sent across a frequency that is either exclusive to the department's pager system (as an example, Town of Cochrane, 413.3125), or it could be a system that shares the paging and normal dispatch communications (example is Redwood Meadows, 413.8375).

The towns who have in-house station alerting generally do not use two-tone paging in this part of the world. Calgary specifically uses wireline 'alerting' (by tripping relays) and a UHF audio path for the voice traffic on the same alerting system.