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Vertex vx354 issue

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vip3r82

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I have taken over the Radio's at my Fire Dept. and the last company that programmed our radio's messed up our systems. ch.1 Fire F-1, Ch.2 Fire Page. when our dept. we use to be able to hear the call out after our radios went off when our tones was dropped. now we have to get to our radio's and switch from channel 2 Fire Page to Channel 1 Fire F-1 to be able to hear what our call is. Does anyone know how to fix this? I am kinda new with this programming software and don't want to be like our other guy and fry the radio's...

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vip3r82

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i tried changing channel 1 pl tone to match the page out channel and radio wouldn't key up on the repeater. changed it back and now it will key the repeater. Could it be the Emergency notification feature?
 

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Depends how the pages are sent out. are they generated by the dispatch console or in a controller attached to the repeater? I am not familiar with the systems in the US. I have heard of setups that recorded either a transmission from another freq or from a phone patch then replayed on the repeater with the tones.

As for you initial problem that you can't hear the message after the pages are out, seems like a sample programming issue.

Before the last company made the change what was the procedure after the tones? Do you always stand-by on Fire channel or the paging channel? From what I understand in your initial post, you guys are always on the paging channel but beside tones you can't hear nothing?
 

vip3r82

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Issue is fixed. I was over looking the decode and encode settings.
Page out channel was set to c-118.8 and main fire channel was set to D-271. to fix this had to change the page out to match Main Fire F-1 Channel to D-271 on the decode & encode.

Thanks for everyone's help!
 
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