Re: Motorola Emergencies

Posted by ANTHONY on August 01, 2001 at 22:08:36:
In Reply to: Motorola Emergencies posted by Paul on July 31, 2001 at 19:07:14:

re: an emergency call - on motorola trunked portable and car radios (mts2000) they have a red emergency button, when this button is pressed the 'main computer controller' (controls trunk system) assigns that radio a priority - which gives it access to the system faster and uninterupted over all the other radios -- the dispatch center usually recieves an alert refrenced to that particular radio via a data id that is displayed on the dispatchers radio console/computer -- you will not see any change on your scanner nor will you hear anything....the scanner has 10 main banks (each can have a 'bank tag'alpha tag, u can program 10 diffrent trunk system, one in each bank....within each bank you have 10 banks (each can have "id list tag" alpha tag) which containn 10 id banks (each id can have alpha tag)... a total of 100 id's .....now regarding the patch --- most motorolla systems can patch up to 4 channels thus creating one big channel-- depending on the radio system you will either have to program a specific id for that patch or you will not, and the scanner just defaults to one of the id's that is patched and u can monitor on that id....regardless... u can assign on your scanner, an 'alert beep' to any and all id's ...so when u hear radio traffic on that id it will give a quick hi pitched multi-tone sound-------example -- on sacramento county,ca sheriff's dept. they patch all the time... id 8208 (north div.) and 8240 (east div.)...when patched you will hear traffic on either 8208 or 8240 and the other id will be silent ---- on some systems it may create a whole new id ...example...joe blow sheriff patches 8208 and 8240 together...you will start hearing radio traffic on 8211 the new patched id # ---i'll ck up on this soon

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