r/Firefighting • u/Be0wulf04 • 7d ago

General Discussion Unication G1 won’t go off.

My apologies if this isn’t the most appropriate place to post this, but there aren’t really any subreddits dedicated to this kind of thing.

My pager will go off for certain tones like 894.7 802.0 and 686 545.3, but it won't go off for these two for some reason: 804.6 680.1 and 742.7 and 848. I have spent hours tinkering around and just can't get it to work. The tones work fine on my friend’s minitor I programmed for him, and they are the correct tones. Any help would be really appreciated!

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u/Excellent_Idea43 7d ago

I dont know much about programming pagers, but are there PL or DPL codes you have to program in? They are subaudible tones that let a radio know to open up the speaker for certain audio. Its a way for radios that are only supposed to listen to one type of transmission (e.g. only people in your agency) filter out transmissions that are not meant for them.

Perhaps your friend's minitor is not listening for any PL codes (meaning he hears all transmissions on that frequency) or he has the correct PL codes programmed in (meaning he only hears your agency) and you have codes programmed in that don't match your agency (meaning you only hear transmissions that carry the "wrong" PL codes).

Your agency's radio people should know if you use PL codes and what codes they are.

Or maybe it has nothing to do with PL codes.

If these are Motorola pagers, you can try posting at r/MotorolaSolutions. You can also try posting at r/RadioTechs with general radio programming questions.

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u/synapt PA Volunteer 7d ago

Are you sure you're implementing them correctly? The unications have quite a few different tone models in them.

Try copy pasting them from his directly to yours, as the unication PPS program lets you do that. Maybe there's just something subtle in the configuration you're missing.

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u/Be0wulf04 7d ago

I have the Motorola qc2 selected on the unication, and I tried copying over the code plug from the monitor but it’s doing the same thing, I’m kind of at a loss because it alerts for other tones from the same dispatch on the same channel but just won’t for the one set.