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A few years ago i programmed some MIV's with the user menu R168 and the second set of tones gave the long beeeeeep instead of the interrupt beep, which was what i was looking for. Now that pager is on the fritz so I took a different MIV and dumped the same codeplug in it and it gives the interrupt beep for all sets of tones. I even tried deleting all the info in the codeplug and manually putting the same info as the original and still no luck. Tried the DOS and windows software. Called Moto and they can't comprehend that the MIV gives 2 different alert tones. Tried uninstalling and installing the software also. The tones are:
A 524.8
B 977.2
C 623.7
D 809.9

In the program list they are A/B, A/C AND A/D
The A/C gave the long beep and the A/D was off duty. If anybody wants I can email a copy of the codeplug for the windows software.
Thanks

As far as the M4, the only way I've ever seen to get the continuous BEEEEEP is when doing a group call (single long tone).

The M5, otoh, supports assigning tones per code group.

You need to use option R97 NOT 168 for the long tone sound on the second set of tones.

Either your pager never worked as you described or it was a fluke.

Two choices:

R97 A-B interupt tones A-C solid tone (no A-D)

or

R168 All inturupt tones

From a previous thread:

You can have one of the two-tone sets give a continuous alert tone if you program the pager carefully. This is what I have done:

Select paging option R130 which is formatted A-B, A-C. I think this is the one that gives continuous alert for A-C. Program your ambulance tones for the A-C and your first responder tones for A-B. When the pager is programmed, turn it off, then turn it back on. THEN, turn back off, then put it back into program mode for step 2.

Step 2 is: select paging option R168 which should give you the 4 2-tone and 2 long tone call option. Program your ambulance tones into Call 2 and the other 1 and 2-tone calls as you wish. You will then have the following alert options:

Call 1 - interrupted alert tone
Call 2 - continuous alert tone
Call 3 - interrupted alert tone
Call 4 - interrupted alert tone
Call 5 - continuous alert tone
Call 6 - continuous alert tone

This is the way I have my pager set up and it works mighty fine. The only trick to getting the Call 2 slot to be continuous alert tone is to program it as option R130 first, then cycle the power to have the changes take effect.

Good luck!

Joe

Worked like a charm. Thanks a million.

You're welcome - glad it worked. I don't know if it is a bug in the pager firmware or not but I'm glad they haven't "fixed" it.

Joe