CDM1250 and Audio Recorder

[KG4LHQ]

Hello,

Our fire station has a Motorola CDM1250 with a recorder that records radio traffic once our fire tone hits kinda acting like a voice recorder when our department gets paged out.

When the radio shop installed the setup the specs was made where when the tone goes off it starts recording the tone and all radio traffic until the main fire repeater is dropped for about 5 seconds. The problem we've ran into is as soon as dispatch is done talking everyone starts talking and it records and keeps recording until the repeater is not tied up for about 5 seconds. Which in turn anyone close to the fire department pretty much knocks out us from being able to talk to our dispatch with the CDM1250 transmitting over everyone elses traffic on the main repeater.

So I thought.... OK how about I change this where it records the audio for 30 seconds and no longer and will then replay it meaning that after 30 seconds of audio it will go back to closed ( no audio from speaker/recorder ) in an AND configuration and then would then play ONLY 30 seconds of recorded audio.

I spend one afternoon tinkering with it. I changed the thing to AND and changed the muting specifications... I believe I've got this finished but for some odd reason now I can't seem to get the thing once the call has been received to reset itsself. The radio displays call received and will not go back to standby mode ( ready to record ) like it should.

Any thoughts or suggestions how I can improve this.

If I had my way I would just want dispatch to be recorded and as soon as the dispatcher let off the button then it would automatically repeat but so far I've came up with nothing on how to do that with the radio and this recorder.

[KG4LHQ]

Bump for any advice.

[nmfire10]

In the configuration, there is a tab for VOICE STORAGE, assuming you are using the built-in voice storage option board. Timers are integrated.

[RF_Burns]

Are you wanting the CDM to record the Dispatcher's page, then re-transmit the page and message from the CDM? If so we have a box that will do exactly that.

It has a local Page button for manual paging plus a momentary and latched relay contacts for siren's, electric doors, etc.

Is that what you are looking for?