WEATHER ALERT??

CATAWBA911 · Post by **CATAWBA911** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 6:00 am

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT QCII TONE TO USE FOR IT TO OPEN A CLOSED WEATHER CHANNEL IN A CMD1250?

THANKS

RadioSouth · Post by **RadioSouth** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 6:12 am

The weather alert tone is 1050 Hz

CATAWBA911 · Post by **CATAWBA911** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 6:13 am

THANKS, DO I JUST DO A LONG C TONE ON THAT CHANNEL?

Flametamer · Post by **Flametamer** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 7:20 am

I'm just curious, what are you talking about?

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Post by **alex** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 7:55 am

Over the WX channels (in the 162 range) when a weather advisory comes over the air, it is preceded by a 1050hz tone. You should be able to set it up as a QCII long B tone so that it works like a weather alert radio. You need to set it up for LONG B tone in order for this to work. A and C i believe expect there to be a two tone sequence, though I'm not positive.

You could possibly get around this by doing 1050 in both the A-B slots, but all radios should simply have a long b selection.

-Alex

EC-7 · Post by **EC-7** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 8:00 pm

From what I remember, there is no 1050hz tone for QCII, there is one close to it (1047?) and most people have used it and not had a problem. Just find the tone closest to 1050hz and it should work.
Good Luck

k3v1n · Post by **k3v1n** » Wed Jun 12, 2002 7:42 am

I'm trying to get my public service radios to alert with this in scan mode, but have one problem... When the radio sees the carrier, all scanning stops. How can I get it to automatically continue to scan???

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Jay · Post by **Jay** » Wed Jun 12, 2002 8:16 am

You probably can't, I'm sorry to report.

I've been through this myself on a couple of different radios. Most radios when you set the squelch up to decode selectively, on scan it ignores that setting.

Jay

AngelFire_91 · Post by **AngelFire_91** » Wed Jun 12, 2002 9:09 am

I have an HT1000 that I set up with it like this and it works for me so far.

for example Channel 13 is 162.xxxx with just plain carrier Squelch so I can just turn it to there and listen, then channel 14 is set up as 162.xxxx with QCII Decode on Long B. I don't receive anything when tuned to that channel except a blikning busy light, intill a weather aleart comes in. Then when entering the scan list I scan 14 but not 13 and under scan options set it so only PL or QCII stops the scan.

This has worked for me, however there is a couple of thing that could effect this, If there are channels you want it to stop at when the Squelch breaks and not accually receives a PL it needs to be set as Receive PL disabled in the channel configuration screen.

Like I said this works for me, but I'm not sure what radio you are using, and if you have already tried this or not. If you have tried it then sorry can't offer any more, If you haven't then good luck to ya, hope you get it.

Thanks,