HT1250 "Local beep when waiting for repeater"?

[Andrew111]

Hi all, I'm new to this arena and now have responsability for the radios in my organization. I have been going through the CPS for the HT1250 and can't seem to find where to enable the radio to beep when you press the transmit button while waiting for the repeater. Any assistance here would be greatly apprecaited!

thank you!

-Andrew

[Josh]

Hi all, I'm new to this arena and now have responsability for the radios in my organization. I have been going through the CPS for the HT1250 and can't seem to find where to enable the radio to beep when you press the transmit button while waiting for the repeater. Any assistance here would be greatly apprecaited!

thank you!

-Andrew

are you talking about a TX inhibit on busy tone? aka busy channel lock-out?

-Josh

[arlojanis]

Sounds like he wants LTR wait to talk. I think you check mark cue tone box.

[Andrew111]

Hi all, I'm new to this arena and now have responsability for the radios in my organization. I have been going through the CPS for the HT1250 and can't seem to find where to enable the radio to beep when you press the transmit button while waiting for the repeater. Any assistance here would be greatly apprecaited!

thank you!

-Andrew

are you talking about a TX inhibit on busy tone? aka busy channel lock-out?

-Josh

Nope, I know that is already enabled... this is the beep when the repeater is not busy to force you to wait for it so you dont get clipped...

thanks, by the way, for the fast responses!

[tom IL]

Well there is not really anything specifically for that but you could accomplish this by enabling MDC 1200 Pre- ID with Sidetone enabled.

[Nand]

It seems that you are looking for the beep that indicates that the repeater is free after the end of someone’s transmission. This often is called a courtesy beep. It is a function of the repeater and not the radio. Some repeater controllers can provide this feature.

Nand.

[muggsy09]

Andrew, there are many beeps on HT1250s that are for may different things, but it sounds like you are looking for an MDC1200 sidetone type, ie: <hit PTT button> Beeeeep..... and then your ready to speak. Go to signalling and open MDC1 system, check the "sidetone" box and set the PTT ID for "Pre" not "Post" this should give you what you want. This is a per channel feature so you will need to enable it in channel personality as well it's been a while but I think its under the signalling tab, not sure.

[jwb8734]

Post PTT is good for repeater for the reason the Pre PTT ID may cut the ID and keep another radios from decoding the ID. So I'd say set it to POST PTT. The other reason is Seconds cound in Public Safety. That 1 second on the Pre PTT could be the voice of a FF or PO calling for help.

[transistor747]

Yep... pre ani is troublesome.
You cover up the word "don't" and all the other guys hear is "shoot".

[tom IL]

I don’t think post will work for what he wants, if I am reading it right what he is trying to do is create an audible beep on the radio to force the user to wait for a key up lag on the repeater. Andrew111 can you confirm that this is what you are trying to do?

[n5tbu]

Sounds like he wants it to act like a trunking system,not gonna happen on a conventional system.
mod

[nmfire10]

All he wants is the sidetone to force people to wait so they don't clip themselves. Obviously he was unaware that the sidetone is actually a function of the pre-ID. I doubt he even needs the ID, he probably just wants the sidetone. I've done the same thing.

Setup MDC System 1 for pre-ID. Set the pretime for maybe 350ms and turn on the sidetone. That pre-time is the amount of time you get the sidetone for. 350 should be more than enough just to prevent voice clipping. Leave the bitsync packets set to 0. If you're not actually using the ID, you can make the ID# whatever you want, it doesn't matter.

In the personality configuration, go to the signalling tab and set it for TX MDC-1. Write the radio, that should do it.