XTS3000 Emergency Tone

[jhal94]

Hello all, I am attempting to use the emergency mode on my 3 XTS3000 radios in conventional mode. However, whenever I trigger the emergency mode on analog, instead of giving that "beeeeep" tone the other radios just un-squelch the MDC burst. When I try it on P25 mode it does nothing at all, giving only a microsecond of tx that only my scanner picks up as a random signal.

It's really annoying because I've tried everything: Modat, MDC1200, sidetones, exc...
If anyone can help i'd really appreciate it.

Disclaimer: No this is not on a trunking system, public safety/federal, exc..

 

[TheManBornWithin]

By saying you are trying to get the radio to "beeeeep", do you mean you are trying to get the radio to emit the evacuation tone? If that is what you are trying to get, you can try keying up, then push the emergency button, assuming the 3000 supports that feature and the radio is properly programmed.

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[crazyboy]

Are you saying you're trying to get a receiving xts to alert upon receipt of an emergency packet?

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[jhal94]

Basically I am trying to get the emergency alarm that I hear on my local 800 system on UHF simplex. Right now they maker no tone when emergency is triggered even with the evacuation tone. 2 of my XTS3000's are firmware 5.6.xx..blah blah blah and the other is a 7.3.xxx

 

[jhal94]

Are you saying you're trying to get a receiving xts to alert upon receipt of an emergency packet?

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I suppose that is what i'm trying to do.

 

[jhal94]

Nobody knows? It seems like this isn't usually a problem as I cant find anything on Google. Right now the e-trig is useless. Ill upload my codeplug so maybe someone will have some insight.

 

[TheManBornWithin]

Basically I am trying to get the emergency alarm that I hear on my local 800 system on UHF simplex.

What exactly do you hear/see when you receive this emergency alarm? What do you hear the radio users alongAre you receiving it on a scanner, or on an XTS?

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[jhal94]

What exactly do you hear/see when you receive this emergency alarm? What do you hear the radio users alongAre you receiving it on a scanner, or on an XTS?

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All I hear is the MDC burst on both the scanner and the radios as far as analog, on digital I get nothing. I want it like the police have it where there is an automatic tone that signifies an emergency and the EM: id that pops up. I set the em id and emergency id in the MDC window.

 

[SCPD]

All I hear is the MDC burst on both the scanner and the radios as far as analog, on digital I get nothing. I want it like the police have it where there is an automatic tone that signifies an emergency and the EM: id that pops up. I set the em id and emergency id in the MDC window.

Your talking about the tone that goes off every 15seconds when dispatch has a 10-33? I thought that was done on a console, not the radio its self.

/v\™ P25!

 

[kc7mwp]

I used to be a Security Dispatcher at Motorola and our 900MHz radios had the button, sometimes referred to as a 'man down' button by our local PD. What this button did was, besides scare the crap out of you when it was pushed, alert the dispatcher of a problem. We had a screen that would go bright flashing red and all radios that were on the same channel would automatically switch to the main channel. If you are talking about a tone that beeps every 15 sec or so to indicate that the channel is 'hot', this is a function that is tripped by the dispatcher or as Avanagh said was a console function.

 

[jhal94]

I used to be a Security Dispatcher at Motorola and our 900MHz radios had the button, sometimes referred to as a 'man down' button by our local PD. What this button did was, besides scare the crap out of you when it was pushed, alert the dispatcher of a problem. We had a screen that would go bright flashing red and all radios that were on the same channel would automatically switch to the main channel. If you are talking about a tone that beeps every 15 sec or so to indicate that the channel is 'hot', this is a function that is tripped by the dispatcher or as Avanagh said was a console function.

Ahh I see, so there is no real function of the button in simplex mode. Hmm that seems odd but ok. Thank you for the clarification I was very confused before.

 

[W0JJK]

The emergency on P25 is different than using MDC emergency on analog. I think it is in the astro system tab under conventional. I will look at work today and give a definite answer later.

 

[W0JJK]

Open Conventional Tab in the tree view.

Then Open Astro Systems

Then Open Astro System and open the Astro System you have selected in your personality that you want emergency to work.