Quick Call Tones

tbendick · Post by **tbendick** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 2:15 pm

Does anyone know if there is a software program for the PC that will decode quickcall tones? I foudn wintone which does a good job for DTMF. On the website it talks about using DLL's to update tone format's.

Thanks

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 4:19 pm

I haven't found any software that will actually decode QC tones for the purposes of recording calls on the PC, etc. I have played with CoolEdit a little bit though. You can pipe the audio from a scanner or radio into the soundcard on your PC and let CoolEdit determine the frequencies of the tones.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun Mar 03, 2002 8:35 am

CoolEdit96 works great for determining what the tones are, but it does not decode them in real-time format. You must feed the tones into the sound card and convert them to a .wav format and load them into CoolEdit. You can now "analyze" them. CoolEdit is VERY accurate with my sound card. It is within .2 to .3 Hz. every time.

Will · Post by **Will** » Sun Mar 03, 2002 1:16 pm

That works, BUT it requires the dreaded Windows 9x. (some of us do not use windows)
I would like to see a simple program to do QCII, what a diagnostic tool that would make.
If they can do DTMF decoding, QCII should be easy.

Along the same line I found a smiple program that will decode Morse Code, from station ID ers, using the sound card in the computer in real time. It is VERY handy in helping to identify those elusive call letters. It does require Windows9x and is shareware. ( our laptop does have win95b on it also!)

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon Mar 04, 2002 8:42 am

It's almost hard for one to imagine the thought of using a computer today WITHOUT Windows! What would be nice is if someday, "M" would produce Windows CPS for all of the older, popular radios so we could program them with our new 1.8 GHz machines.
Uh....right.