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Read through everything Minitor V-related I can find here, but don't see any suggestions.

Situation - Dispatch is as follows: Two tone off tower 1; carrier drop, two-tone off tower 2; maybe another two-tone that does not cause pager to alert; alert tone (deedle deedle); carrier drop; voice dispatch tower 2; carrier drop; voice dispatch tower 1. Brand new Minitor V SV UHF pagers will not record dispatch, or anything other than tones. Have tried Revert-N with various settings, and various SV settings (dynamic, 60, 120)

Without the comments about how wasteful and time consuming the process is it is (we know, and we're trying to fix it), any suggestions about getting the SV to work correctly?

Thanks!

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Greg Becker [email protected] [email protected]
Asst Chief, Milan Fire-Rescue
Dutchess Co., NY

My situation here is somewhat similar. I have mine set for Delayed N 60 seconds, and stored voice at 120 seconds.

Pager will not check for carrier drop until 60 sconds has elapsed and will record for total of 2 minutes.

The only catch to this is if the dispatch is say 1 minute long you have to listen to squelch for a minute while it is still recording. What I do to stop this is to turn the function switch once the dispatch has completed. This stops the recording and reverts the pager to previous mode.

Only other optio is the Manual reset.

Greg, I will attempt an explanation. The delayed N function starts timing after the carrier drops on the very first page off tower 1. The stored voice recording starts immediately after the first page is decoded. I use dynamic recording which will continue recording until the carrier drops the second time. (8 minutes worth I believe). I believe your problem is that the recorder shuts off when the carrier drops the second time. If the dispatcher does not talk until the carrier drops the second time, you will not record it, only the tones and other noises between first decode and second carrier drop.

Perhaps you can either program your pager to decode the second page off of tower two as well as the first page which would reset the delayed N function or have your dispatch console reprogrammed to delay dropping the carrier after the paging tones, allowing the dispatcher time to PTT the mic.

Hope this helps.

RGM