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I have searched the forums and cant find the answer to my question. My question is, I have an Ht1000 and I want to do QCII; what I am not sure about is the Tone A, Tone B, Tone C, and Tone D. I am trying to get it to where it will pick up my stations tone which is 726.8 & 617.4
I have the duration for tone B set to 5, sleep period 60 ms, auto reset disabled, and QC select call LED enabled. What do I need to do to make it where it will alert me when the tones sound? If you all need any more information I will be glad to give it to you. Thanks

you have to make shure the signaling system is enabled on the rx signal system to be able to recive the aleart, thats my thought.you should find this under mode configuration.

In order to program a subscriber unit to receive QC signals, you have to know more about the paging plan used by the agency than simply the specific AF frequencies assigned to one unit.

Usually, Tones A and B are the "bee-boop" tones used to page a signal unit. A unit may have a second identity using Tones C or D in lieu of Tones A or B. In addition, the plan may use Long tones (Long A, Long B, or Long C) as "group" page tones.

The most common timing schemes are:

for individual pages: 1 sec of first tone, 0 time inter-tone, and 3 sec. of second tone; and

for group pages, 4 sec. or 6 sec. of the group tone.

I suspect (but could not prove) that, in the absence of specific information about any given system, the most commonly used scheme is A, B, Long B, with timings of 1-0-3 and 6.

After you have programmed the subscriber to recognize tones sent by the system in question, you then have to tell it what to do with them. The most common setup has the radio go into mute mode (i.e., it will ignore regular dispatch traffic until paged), either automatically on selection of the page channel or by pressing a button. Receipt of a page "opens" or unmutes the receiver, so it now hears the dispatcher's message. You then have to decide whether to have the radio automatically re-mute after so much time of no voice or say unmuted until manually reset by the press of a button.

Finally, the "sleep period" that I believe you are referring to for the HT1000 is part of the "battery saver" function. Battery saver must be disabled for an HT1000 reliably to detect QC pages.

well you can prolably disreguard my last post, after reading rkg`s post i agree.

Ok, I got it to where it will pick up the tones and it does about a 4 second continuous beep and after the dispatcher finishes their transmission the LED on top flash green, is there any way I can change the way it alerts me or am I stuck with the continuous beep?

It depends on the call...

If it's a individual page - A-B type - then it will do the beep-beep-beep type thing.

If it's a group call - the 4-6 second B tone that RKG mentions, you will get a straight tone.

-Alex

Thanks