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Failsoft sucks
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:42 pm
by MTS2000des
sorry after 16+ hours of listening to "beep beep" every 30 seconds I had to vent somehwere. Our county is moving their primesite and thus we are in failsoft but MAN...this is like Chinese water torture.
Serious question though, is it possible for the "beep beep" FS tone to be disabled somehow?
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:54 pm
by spectragod
on/off switch kills it.
SG
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:40 pm
by MTS2000des
good one. we are still dealing with FS now going on 48 hours. I am glad we kept our VHF radios...
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:48 am
by spectragod
I don't believe you can kill the alert tone, you can turn off FS via RSS, but that's about it. Although I have never tried to kill the FS tone, sounds like a new project for me today at work.
The on/off will kill it for sure though.
SG
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:40 am
by Equinox
WC4RAV wrote:good one. we are still dealing with FS now going on 48 hours. I am glad we kept our VHF radios...
Seriously....if you don't have to have the repeaters on, turn them off until you get the site controller back online.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:58 am
by MTS2000des
Equinox wrote:WC4RAV wrote:good one. we are still dealing with FS now going on 48 hours. I am glad we kept our VHF radios...
Seriously....if you don't have to have the repeaters on, turn them off until you get the site controller back online.
problem is, then all our PD will have NO communications. Yes, someone had the bright idea to strip out all the old UHF Syntors and Spectras we had because Ma M's sales team convinced them they were no longer needed.
We are on day 3 of failsoft. the FTR has supposedly escalated this issue. I am not in that area but I suspect there is a problem with the new SZ controller our county bought.
What a PITA though. and what really sucks is this is going to happen all over again when rebanding hits our region...
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:10 pm
by mr.syntrx
Three days is absolutely ridiculous.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:52 am
by N4DES
Man that sucks....Hopefully they are burning the midnight oil on this one
and not quitting at 5.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:18 am
by apco25
I won't even go into the FTR problems I've seen here.
Although there was the one time a certain cable set was unplugged by the FTR to "solve" a problem between a primary and backup PSAP.
Oh, it solved the problem alright, except it knocked out every incoming phone line to the consoles for about 3 hours.
That is, until on of the dispatchers found the unplugged cable set in the floor grid.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:50 am
by MTS2000des
well after three plus days of failsoft, it is back up. Now they are trying to deal with another issue, audio in some areas sounds "garbled" almost digital weak signal like, (we are using a pure analog system)...almost like the transmitters are out of phase.
Not sure what the holdup is. Waiting to hear from our sys admin why it took so long. It was only supposed to be down for a few hours.
It is just good to have it back online.