Quantar Alarm Tones

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GEMOTO
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Quantar Alarm Tones

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Hi All,

I have a Quantar with the Basic Wildcard setup. This is being operated and a conventional in cabinet repeater in Mixed-Mode config. I want to be able to have the station transmit alarm tones if there is a failure at the site. The wildcard programming is a bit confusing.

What elese do I have to set for this to work correctly? I am looking to have it tx the tones when there is a failure, if the problem goes away (either by itself or me fixing it) I would like the tones to stop.

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Re: Quantar Alarm Tones

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Normally you wouldn't need wildcard programming for this.

Did you try the standard station alarm programming and find that unsatisfactory for some reason?

Configuration > Channel Information > Advanced > Alarm Tone > Over Air > Enabled

The wildcard programming on the screen you linked to allows you to force an alarm condition.

For example, suppose you have the station on a UPS and want to know when the AC has failed. You could connect a contact closure from the UPS [indicating AC fail] to a Quantar wildcard input. Then program a wildcard table that uses the 'state' of that input to force Alarm 1 to be active or inactive as appropriate.
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