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I have heard a rumor and I thought I would post here to see if anyone on the board could verify it or has heard anything of the like.......

A customer recently came in and said he had been by a neighboring FD that just purchased some Minitor V pagers. The on-duty staff carrying a new Minitor V was speaking highly of the pager and said it was working well. Then he tells him that their pagers have custom ringtones/alert tones. And he turns it off and back on and it plays some kind of music similar to a cell phone ring tone.

I have Minitor V's and have programmed several of them and I am full aware of the multiple alert tones that are selectable in the software. But this is not what he described. He described a "song" just like you can download to a cell phone.

My question is if this is true, how did they do it? Is there some way to modify/replace the alert tones in the software with a downloaded or saved sound file????

Personally I don't see why anyone would want this on a public safety reciever, but who knows.....

Anyone else heard of this???

Wes

I belive that you can choose what alert tone you want for what QCII pair alerts. You have all of the fun paging tones that usually come with the newer Motorola pagers.

I think I remember hearing something about this through the grapevine, however, I have no clue if it's actually there and implemented.

Its there. I set up ours this way for coordinators or such

jas

I thought I remember reading that somebodys M5 was playing back a portion of a recording from a previous call rather than the alert tone. So I guess if you can hack the code plug correctly then you could stick a different sound in there...maybe

Birken

jsikora wrote:Its there. I set up ours this way for coordinators or such

jas

To program custom tones? Details, details...

Its just a matter of selecting the type of music you want for the "set" of tones you are adding. I think there is standard then 8 different types of "music"


jas

jas,

I think you are missing the deal here......

We are not talking about the musical alerts......

I am talking about replacing those musical alerts with actual music, other sounds, ect....

for example: on some cell phones, you can download actual songs and other sound files and set them as ringtones.

Wes

The Minitor V doesn't have that option. There are the standard broken and steady alert tones and there are 10 'musical' ringtones like you would find on a beeper. There is not method to upload your own tones.

The new Tribute 911 pager has the ability to do an MP3 upload of sorts for the alert tone.

This is a new pager and has the ability to do tone alert, vibrate alert, scan with priority (open and closed).

It offers 6 cap codes and 8 freqs in the pager.

It does have stored voice at approx 3 minutes

Finally testing is showing that it has the Rx Sens of the Minitor 2, however the pager is PC programmable.

Cost is around $375.00

N9UPC, Any link or docs on that pager you mentioned?

I posted something about this a few weeks ago

http://tribute911pager.com/tribute911pager.pdf

I thought I read that you can program custom alerts in a Minitor 5.

My question for the author of this topic is,
Why not Case-IH?