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Hi everybody,
I currently live in an area that's covered by an analog and Provoice hybrid EDACS system. They have two analog dispatch talkgroups for sections of the county, and there's a two-tone decoder wired to a control station at every firehouse. It works pretty nicely for them.
So, I figured I'd like to try something: I wanted to set up my 436HP so that it would tone out when my local fire station is alerted for a call. I also wanted the fire officer call-out.
What I did was go into Sentinel, then program each of the frequencies of the trunked system along with both sets of tones and the alert tone/light options. I waited much of the weekend to see how it would work, and right before this post, the officer tone went off. And my scanner didn't.
I know this isn't a common way of doing things and I've got no expectations from Uniden whatsoever to make this work. It would be nice, though.
My question is, has anyone actually set up tone-out on an EDACS trunked system and had it work? There are 16 channels in this system, and each of those 16 channels is programmed up with the tones and what to do once the tones go off. But they don't.
Do they only work in conventional? I probably wouldn't want to scan the system in conventional as I don't know which channel the alerting tone would come through... unlike Unications, this system can assign any valid voice channel.
Thank you!
I currently live in an area that's covered by an analog and Provoice hybrid EDACS system. They have two analog dispatch talkgroups for sections of the county, and there's a two-tone decoder wired to a control station at every firehouse. It works pretty nicely for them.
So, I figured I'd like to try something: I wanted to set up my 436HP so that it would tone out when my local fire station is alerted for a call. I also wanted the fire officer call-out.
What I did was go into Sentinel, then program each of the frequencies of the trunked system along with both sets of tones and the alert tone/light options. I waited much of the weekend to see how it would work, and right before this post, the officer tone went off. And my scanner didn't.
I know this isn't a common way of doing things and I've got no expectations from Uniden whatsoever to make this work. It would be nice, though.
My question is, has anyone actually set up tone-out on an EDACS trunked system and had it work? There are 16 channels in this system, and each of those 16 channels is programmed up with the tones and what to do once the tones go off. But they don't.
Do they only work in conventional? I probably wouldn't want to scan the system in conventional as I don't know which channel the alerting tone would come through... unlike Unications, this system can assign any valid voice channel.
Thank you!
