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I recently received 50 Minitor 5 VHF pagers for my fire department. We are switching from low band dispatch to vhf high band in 2006. We also have our own vhf system that is used very actively. The pagers are the two channel variety without stored voice. When setting up the A - D selector switch, I was hoping to have a mode on there that would allow for scanning of both channels and to alert on either channel while scanning in the closed monitor mode. I would prefer that the channel 1 had an active priority since that is our county dispatch channel. Our system would only be used as a backup if the county system ever crashed. There is a silent scan that alerts on eitehr channel, however it doesn't allow any voice to play after tones are completed. I currently have position A set for channel 1 alert with tone/vibrate. B is set for channel 1 alert with just vibrate. C is set for scan with channel 1 priority and always in the monitor mode. Am I missing something in teh programming or are they not possible to work this way. Thank you much !

i am not a pager programmer, however i do remember reading somewhere that you could do that. You might want to check the digital paging section of the forums.

This belongs in the pager forum, but anyway.

Silent Scan != Push to Listen. Silent Scan means the pager stays quiet, scanning both channels, until it gets a valid tone group... it then alerts as configured and opens the speaker. Push to Listen means the pager alerts (tone, vibrate, or both) but records the audio and does NOT open the speaker.

Personally, the M5s I've configured are set up as follows:
A - Silent Scan, Tone and Vibrate alert
B - Silent Scan, Vibrate alert, Push to Listen (church mode)
C - Priority scan (monitor mode), Tone and Vibrate alert
D - Probability scan (monitor mode), Tone and Vibrate alert

unclick the ptl in the software. it will solve your problem

Push-To-Listen is not just a stored voice function. You can use that with non-stored voice pagers as well. It just means you have to push the button to hear the dispatch. I'm not sure what the results would be in scan mode since I've never used that or dealt with it. I don't see PTL being a good idea in a scanning mode.