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Jay911

Thanks. I've reached out to the system owners and explained the same as above and it looks like we're experiencing the same thing you describe, in multiple agencies (AFAIK/can tell). I'm hoping they will send out an unrestricted key with a similar "don't touch nothin'" agreement in place.

Jay911

Anyone got any theories? Even a suggestion on somewhere else I can ask if that's most appropriate. The way it looks right now to me, according to the ASTRO25 CPS help file, is that the CPS is engineered to prevent users from creating trunking personalities if the Advanced System Key they own has any...

Jay911

Depending on when ASK was programmed by the Master key owner. . . . they may not have enabled the proper check boxes for the XTL/XTS series radios. The APX Advanced Key Administrator handles the creation of an ASK for APX as well as XTS/XTL software. Unfortunately I am at home and not my office or ...

Jay911

Hi all, I'm having a hell of a time building some codeplugs and I hope somebody here can help. I have a small fleet of radios for a fire department - one APX7500, 4-5 XTL5000s, and a handful of Kenwood NX5400 portables. I have advanced system keys for both the Motorola and Kenwood radios, legitimate...

Jay911

Thanks much - looking into it now.

Jay911

Hey all, sorry for the noobish question. I'd like to have my dispatch center recognize both our portable/mobile radio IDs and emergency button activations that we're doing with MDC1200 signaling. The center is using Centracom Gold Elite - I don't know what version specifically off the top of my head...

Jay911

Hi all, I keep getting requests for this program. It's not mine, and that FTP server above is something I haven't used for years. I have found a copy of the file and it's on RapidShare at: http://rapidshare.com/files/385336477/Paging.zip.html I would suggest that someone else grab it and host it so ...

Jay911

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I just picked up this device and have it working with the H300 headset (although the audio still comes thru the radio speaker in addition to over the headset).. just curious, is there any way to pair this thing with other such stuff? For example, I was thinking I c...

Jay911

Hi all, Is there such a thing as a kit of buttons for the MCS2000 model III? I have a radio (control head on the radio body, not remote) and the buttons/keys are not the same as the standard radio. I'd like to get a set of button/key caps so I can program the radio I want, without having to tell peo...

Jay911

Hi all, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I figured I'd check in just in case. TRBO is not compatible with P25, am I right? And/or the XPR6550 can't do anything but TRBO and analog? There's a department local to me getting XPRs, in the process of replacing a series of analog VHF repeate...

Jay911

Greetings all, I'm involved in spec'ing radio hardware for a piece of fire apparatus. The truck will be used in a region that currently has a Smartzone 800MHz analog/digital mixed trunk; most fire/EMS users currently have MCS2000s, but Fire is exploring digital and has a couple of digital talkgroups...

Jay911

Greetings folks, My fire dept is venturing into the world of alphanumeric paging at this point, using the original Advisor pagers on a city-owned paging network. That part is fully up and operational, and working fine. The issue is that our response area suffers from, shall we say, less than total c...

Jay911

The natural gas plant near my house uses MODAT on one of its frequencies. The MODAT is on CSQ, and voice conversations have a PL tone.

Jay911

Maybe that was done by that Speed TV show, Unique Whips! Anyone seen their 'handiwork'?

Jay911

Yikes... an amplified base won't wake you? I used to be able to have my feet on the floor in the fraction of open carrier before the tones went off. But that's just me :) If this pager has a pin that goes 'hot' on alert, like the Minitor II does (I don't recall if you said what you had), and you are...

Jay911

Does anyone have a link to an official document or something I can provide to my department administration (re the HT1000 cancellation)?

Jay911

If this is the CRT system, the ones we use have manual mechanical/pot adjustments on the Plantronics P10 adapter/receptacle for headset volume and mic gain. We don't mess with the CIE either.

Jay911

I use USB<>serial adapters all the time. In fact, I just returned from a road trip where I had two of them in use - one to the GPS for position fixes, and the other to the BC796D for use with ID Tracker.

I like the Belkin one best myself. I *think* the model number is F5U109.

Jay911

Hey stop that! I was wondering why my wireless was going off.

Just kidding. Does it look original or aftermarket?

Jay911

Nice!

What's the bottom radio below the MCS2K? Is it just an MCS with different keycaps? It almost looks like it only has 4 buttons below the display, instead of 6..

[Edit: Ahah. Micom, I should pay more attention to the thread!]

Jay911

"clearNET" .... that is the NexTel system in Canada. I know without a shadow of a doubt Sorry to cast shadows, Dan, but Clearnet hasn't existed here in Canada for years. They were bought out by Telus at least 4+ years ago, and Telus operates the MiKE system (basically rebranded Nextel). C...

Jay911

Yeah, it's a Sho-Me, but not the one Adam linked to. http://www.gushi.org/~jay911/controls-1.jpg (The box on top is our arrowstick controller, separate from the siren) And yeah, everything but the intersection tone sounds to me like it should be on some kid's bicycle. Exhibit A, the wail sound: trim...

Jay911

Yet my HT1000 fell down carpeted stairs and broke the battery clips.

Nice survival story though!

Jay911

I don't recall the brand, but we have a siren on our brush/rescue truck that goes to extremes. On one hand, the wail is about the suckiest wail sound I have ever heard. It cycles at about 3x the speed of any other wail sounds. On the other hand, it has an "Intersection" button, which sends...

Jay911

Trunkedradio.net became http://www.radioreference.com/ earlier this year.

Jay911

Bango - problem solved for $800.00. Unfortunately I think this would be the problem right here. :P The day I posted the query on if this would work, I sent a document to my superiors outlining the procedure that would have to be undertaken to get these one-touch buttons on the consoles, so we would...

Jay911

If you narrowed down to one repeater at one site, then the first thing that I would do is reset the repeater. First download the error log from the Quantar (I assume Quantar). Then do a power down/power up. I have had tones before and a reset fixed things up. Well, like I said, my input would proba...

Jay911

Well, I used a sound program to generate a 1000 hz tone and play it side by side for comparison. :) One would hope that a test tone generator would be easy to find, but with the kind of results seen from the techs and Motorola (who seemed to have no idea or details on our setup, even having been giv...

Jay911

I don't think it's a battery revert tone. It is still going on now, after 30+ hours (at least, that I'm aware of - surely longer). I've heard the battery tone on my VFD's conventional repeater, and if it's the same type of tone for both types of repeaters, that's not it. One thing that was tossed in...

Jay911

Hi there, The Smartzone system that I use has recently developed a beep that occurs before & after some of the transmissions, and is audible on the radios and the consoles, and on my scanner as well. The tone seems to go on for all the time the repeater is keyed up, except when voice traffic is ...

Jay911

Heck, just page them twice! Sure.. then you have the same problem we have now, where some agencies use MRTI style paging exclusively, some use MRTI paging for alerting and then expect the voice transmission over the radio (the MRTI hangs up on you), and some need the simple, one-touch pushbutton fe...

Jay911

Hi all, There are a few departments we dispatch for who want their tones sent twice in succession whenever we tone them out. The reason, I think, is that they don't get any alerting sound when whatever pagers/radios they have (not Big M) open up with the first set of tones, so they want a second set...

Jay911

Try CCII.COM @: http://members.fortunecity.com/machine4/utils.htm When I found that program online, I made sure I saved it, and I tacked it up on my webspace as well. http://www.jay911.org/radio/paging.zip There's a couple of other things in there too. As for the other comments, patching with a Gol...

Jay911

Here are the notes I took during the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs conference in 2002 during a Motorola seminar. Paging - Minitor pager line has been taken over by CGISS from Paging as of the IV. Concepts being discussed for the next generation (MinV) include liquid crystal displays, trunked a...

Jay911

I have dealt with Monty a couple times on eBay and found a lot of his posts and commentary here to be very informative and helpful, and a benefit to the community as a whole. I know I learned a few things from his contributions here. My condolences to his family, both his own and his extended group ...

Jay911

The W9 looks like it should be mounted in an aircraft.

Anyone got links for the 'new' MCS stuff being mentioned?

Jay911

Nothing I've done to our HT750s has killed them (unfortunately, IMO :) )... I once dropped an HT1000 down three carpeted stairs and it broke the battery clips off the almost-brand-new battery. On the other hand, I once had an MT1000 I left on the tailgate of my car, drove away forgetting about it......

Jay911

In the Centracom Console at work, it shows the pager code for my fire department as 6022 under QuickCall IIB....I can't find that anywhere in the chart...maybe I'm just not reading it correctly :oops: Anyone? lol You gotta convert that to a different format. That's in Centracom hex format, and you ...

Jay911

In our service, the portable radios are 'assigned' to a unit ID in the dispatch software. The dispatch software tends to know where the rigs are (if AVL is working/installed - otherwise, it uses last known location from dispatching/responding details). So if 701451 (14 Pump portable 1) trips his ala...

Jay911

"206" is incomplete, that could mean a number of things. If you default to the most common code group around here, B, then B206 ends up being 1 sec of 569.1 followed by 3 sec of 788.5. Are you familiar with the tone you're supposed to be generating? Is this it? Is it tone code 206? 2271.7 ...

Jay911

I've tried to accomplish this on some HT750s without success for a few years. I DO show the QCII options, and can program it, but I get no alerts when the tones are sent across the channel--while other radios pick up the alert just fine.

I think it might be a firmware issue.

Jay911

Radio_Cowboy wrote:You outta give him the Tones from EMERGENCY! (minus the klaxon of coarse)

I wish that was possible with QCII. Even though our department is station 50 and not 51, I would set us up that way

--j.

Jay911

I've created a bunch of samples for the departments in my local area. Email or PM me and I'll zip 'em up and send them to you.

Jay911

Sounds like QCII two tone sequential paging, followed by an abnocious warbling Alert Tone. I agree. A dispatch center near here does something similar, with different warbling/zapping/chirping noises depending on which station or unit is being toned out. I guess I don't see hte benefit of them.. to...

Jay911

Any Ideas? Broken cable? Broken pin(s) in connector? I had a Jedi label mic where one pin actually folded over.. still worked if you straightened it out, went in and out on its spring, but if you weren't careful putting it on the radio, it folded over. It happened to be for the RX audio to the mic....

Jay911

Do you mean the talk permit tones generated by the radio itself? I kind of half- :o 'd kludged one up for a radio course PowerPoint presentation once... I didn't record it from an actual radio, but actually made it in a sound editing program after listening to my MTS2000 a couple times. Far as I rem...

Jay911

As I may have said before.. My department had a handful of HT750s. Pretzel-shaped antennas, radios that would only do QCII decoding if the moon was in the right phase and the rH was above 60% at an altitude of 4500 ft or higher, etc., all too common. Audio sounded horrible, loud clicking from the sp...

Jay911

Some of the members of my department have purchased these. I think they're 250 channel (continuous rotary), but I don't know enough about Kenwoods to know if the model number reflects the bandsplit or not. If it does, then the TK380 is a 403 to 470 radio - that's what we use them for. As for program...

Jay911

is the battery charge good? I seem to recall my 1250 doing something similar to this when the battery was shot I tried it again with a new(er) battery and it seems to be working fine - both the culprit batteries prove to be giving the same problem on another HT750 in our service. Odd, the "bat...

Jay911

When the PTT is pushed, did the radio make a reset or he just stop to transmit? When the PTT is pressed, the red LED illuminates for a very short time (less than 1 second) and then goes out. Nothing else happens; you can repeat this procedure as many times as you like. It doesn't seem to 'lock up' ...

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