Yet Another Set of HT1250 Programming Questions

[HarryWilly]

I have a few questions. I have programmed these radios in the past, but I just got an HT1250 (used to have 750's) with the full keypad and stored voice.

1. For some reason the fire departments each have their own "group call" tone. Personally I think it is silly because a dispatch that could take about 15 seconds now is pushing 45 seconds, and it is really annoying to listen to, and the fact that all the pagers steady beep instead of pulsating beep. Anyway, I need to program a function so that it acts a pager. How to I program the group call tone and only the group call tone. Right now it is set to A-B\Long B with a randomly chosen A tone and our tone as the B tone. Is this the only way to do it? Is there a better way, and will it trip?

2. A couple units came programmed to do paging. The red emergency button was set to act as a "pager reset" like the squelch button on a Minitor. What does the button have to be set as to do that?

3. What settings do I need to have enabled to make sure the stored voice records when the "pager mode" is tripped?

4. Is there a way to have a PTT sound, like when you use a Nextel? I know it sounds like a silly thing to have, but it lets people know who's is opening and causing feedback when someone else goes to transmit.

Thanks for the help

 

[KB9LIQ]

Just a question but does Motorola send a manual with the CPS when you buy it now or is that extra? My quess is Moto charges extra.

 

[HarryWilly]

I can't answer that... the license for the software is not my personal one, it is one that existed before, and the people before got up and left, so no one has any idea, but I would assume no, and I am well aware that motorola has a part number for it so you probably do pay for it.

 

[n5ims]

My RSS software (Spectra) came with the manual.

 

[CCHLLM]

CPS has the manual/help file as part of the software. The help file gets you into the detailed portions by clicking on the highlighted subjects brought up in the help file.

 

[HarryWilly]

I still don't have a question to number 4, but it looks like it is a MDC-1200 only issue that allows the PTT sounds. But anyway here are the answers to the other three questions (BTW, thanks for the thread hijack)

1. A-B\Long B is pretty much the only way to do it, It is poor planning on the part of the people who engineered the system the radio is on, but it works fine. I just have a radom freq for A and the long tone for B

2. To do the reset, the button you want to reset the paging mode is just like a minitor - the one for "monitor" also resets it.

3. Under advanced board options, check "all incoming calls" to make sure voice storage will record.

 

[radionerd13669]

you can have a ptt side tone with the mdc-1200 how ever it will not sound like nextel