QC / QCII / QCII-SP Question

NB2E · Post by **NB2E** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:22 pm

Our county uses a paging system based on QC, QC-II & QC-II-SP paging methods. Also, the dispatch console is a Centracom Series II. On the dispatch console it has the tone buttons for each department's pagers (QCII-SP) and Siren (QC). Is there a utility available to decode the Centracom codes displayed to actual tone frequency?

For instance.. Department A has a QCII-SP pager code on the console of 6CBC which I know the tones to be (from reading a Minitor 3 pager) 2807/435.3

I have a whole list of the tones in the format displayed from the Centracom console and would like to convert them to the frequencies so I can program pagers.

NB2E

NB2E · Post by **NB2E** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:32 pm

I just realized that the tones are actually plectron tones so I guess my question would be.. Is there a way to decode Centracom tone codes to their corresponding plectron tone?

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:18 am

There is a page in the Centracom II operators manual that has a chart that allows you to decode the 4 digit code into the actual tone frequencies.

I do not have it in front of me, but I could send you a photocopy if you cannot locate it.

Wes

tbendick · Post by **tbendick** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:29 am

If you can tape the audio on your PC you can use a program like cooledit 96 to decode them.

NB2E · Post by **NB2E** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:47 pm

Wes,

If you could post a copy of it that'd be great. I can't seem to find the tables online for decoding the codes the console is producing. I have the standard QCII tables for prefixes 10 through 49 and 60/66/68/99 but it doesn't help me much when the console produces codes such as 9DB5, BD79 and AC7A.

NB2E

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:34 pm

You really need to try and find the as build info for your console. Motorola C II did not have all the plectron tones as standard in there systems. Because Plectron had there own standard list of tones and M had there way of doing things they did not include all of the tones. I know of several consoles where the tones were altered on a custom basic to fit the need of the user.

Gary