Hi Chris, >We are interested in having such a setup, but need to know if anyone >else is doing it? If so, how are you sending the tones for the pager >and such.
(A disclosure: My company used to make the 7K controller that several folks mentioned in their responses. Its replacement, the 7330, also supports tone paging.) Generating paging tones is usually the job of the repeater controller. Not all controllers do it, and many folks don't care. Tone paging isn't all that popular any more, having first been replaced by digital paging and then by cell phones. The controller needs to increase the tone amplitude when paging. If the controller has only one tone level pot, you'll probably want to set it so the CW identifications and courtesy beeps loud enough to be understood but low enough to not override a conversation. On the other hand, a paging tone needs to be fairly loud (about 3.3 kHz of deviation) because the paging receiver is expecting that level. The tones also need to be fairly free of distortion and close to the format's specifications. That includes the accuracy of the tone frequencies and the durations of the tones and gaps. And, it's handy to be able to pre-store the pages in memory so it's easy to call them up with a DTMF sequence. Hope that helps - 73, Bob, WA9FBO S-COM, LLC PO Box 1546 LaPorte, CO 80535-1546 970-416-6505 voice 970-419-3222 fax www.scomcontrollers.com ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
