Unication G5 tone alerting

[bezely10]

**BRAND NEW FIRST POST, PLEASE DON'T ROAST ME**

Bear with me, as my terminology might not be correct. I am teaching myself as I go.

I am a Firefighter/Paramedic. Our station is being demolished and rebuilt. In the meantime, we are living in construction trailers (without station alerting). I have a Unication G5 pager; our dispatch center is on a P25 trunked system. The pagers they gave us are Minitor 6's on the VHF simulcast (mainly get tones and can't understand the voice).

A previous agency (different dispatch center) I worked for in the past was also P25 trunked. However, the Unication G5's that they issued to us were programmed on the P25 trunked system, and would alert for department-specific calls. One knob position would monitor and alert when a call comes in. Another knob position would be silent all the time until the call came in (sleeping at night).

I have our P25 trunked system on one of the knobs, and I have our A/B VHF tones as well. I am trying to figure out how my previous dispatch denter set up the P25 trunked system to be able to alert for department-specific tones???

 

[FishScan]

Minitor 6 is an analog pager. It wont work on a P25 system. G5 can monitor VHF analog as well as the digital P25 system.

 

[bezely10]

Minitor 6 is an analog pager. It wont work on a P25 system. G5 can monitor VHF analog as well as the digital P25 system.

Yes, they have the Minitor 6 programmed for the VHF simulcast.

I have a unication G5. I want to program it to be listening on the p25 trunked system. However, I want it to alert when our departments specific tones go off. My previous department (different dispatch agency) had it programmed like this and I cannot re-create this function/feature.

 

[tglendye]

You can definitely have your local p25 system, plus your agencies 2 tones in the G5. Here’s a link to a video

. I believe it will explain how you do it. There’s quite a few good ones that will walk you through programming. The major issue is however, most of the videos were shot with former software version, so there may be some things that look different. But hopefully it’ll walk you through well enough to help.

Also, what system are you trying? Maybe someone on here already has a file.

 

[dgruver911]

Wonder if what you are mssing here is, are they actually sending out tones on the P25 system? When we went to P25, we started out with just a generic tone to alert users on the 800 P25, while sending the QCII analog tones on VHF. Now that the Unications and APX Digital Call Signaling have appeared, we send the same tones for each Station/District out on VHF (QCII) and 800 (DTS) at the same time. It's all in how the consoles are programmed. And my understanding is, only Motorola/AVTEC does it. But I could be wrong. What I have been looking for is a way to send those P25 tones from a backup radio without a full dispatch console.