Huntingdon County Pager/Siren Test with Motorola Minitor I
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Here's the weekly pager and siren test for Huntingdon County.Pager in the video is an old school Motorola Minitor I.Pager activates at 4:07.This pager has quit working since the video.
Not gonna lie, idk how I found this video but it made my night, I miss them old fire tones, 3/4 years of them tones I had with the fire company
Man this video has lots of awesome tones in it, I like the 2+2 tones especially. I Love that pager, sad that it quit working since then.
That's the 1st pager I used back in the early 80's. The little square had your tone out numbers in it under the plastic (ie 10 and 50) It was just to identify which pagers were for which company. Everyone had 10, as that was the general alarm (steady single tone) and 50 was our number for a rescue company call only (beeping tones). Cheers
THE absolute best pager ever...nearly indestructible!
Very true.
Love the quick tones
This was the pager (we called them "beepers") my dad had when I was little. Pretty sure his was red though.
You could get a red case for Minitor pagers if desired. I could have chosen red but I wanted grey because I felt it would draw less attention. Motorola also made red cases for some of their two-way portable radios and later on fluorescent yellow was added to the list of choices. The Motorola Minitor pager was a godsend from those old plectons we used to have to carry.
Our chief had a white one, boy I'm telling you as a kid I thought that was the stuff
Perry County still uses the doomsday house siren tones (2 tones combined into 1) at atleast 3 or 4 of there companies.
Phil Smith They are actually called Motorola Quik Call (1) Tones or simply called 2+2 Tones
Had one of these back in the day. My family called it the “squawk box.”
@MrJeffr105 Thanks.I will be doing a new pager test video with my Minitor IV I just got.
Didnt need mace if you were out at night if you had your pager with you............You could beat whoever if they attacked you with your damn pager............
@THEFINALHAZARD the black cord is probably an antenna and the "Dist" "Loc" button selects whether you want to hear "distant" or "local" calls.I always have mine on Distant.
I carried one for 10 years, actually, carried two. One for command and one for personnel.
1:25 sounding like the show EMERGENCY
Good God, are these still in use? I remember this setup from 38 years ago when I was a volunteer paramedic in southwest Virginia!
@THEFINALHAZARD The big silver button is the squelch button, The switch selects wether you want the pager to be "open" and you hear everything on our dispatch frequency, or be set on private where it only sounds when my company gets a call.The little square beside the headphone jack does nothing, or at least thats what I have been told.
Lol reminds me of Emergency! At the end
I finally got one of these pagers and i want to put it on a local fire dispatch frequency. I know how to change the tones, but is it hard to recrystal them to a different frequency? Or do i just solder the new crystal in?
My tone for Co.3 was at 3:33
@HRFR65 Ahhh ok. Well the little square looks cool for sure. Also I just got one of those exact chargers today. What's the one cord in the back for, and what's the button for 'dist' and 'loc' for?
Dist / loc engaged or disengaged the auxiliary antenna jack. Cord in back is low band wire antenna
i bought three old motorola pagecom pagers a few years ago, it says sd county on them
sounds like somerset countys tones
Is that BJ still dispatching ?! I left HuntCo in 2001 !
Wow, 2+2 tones. I thought everyone who used them got rid of them.
thisissparta789789 my County still uses them for 3 stations
We had a tone that would set the monitors off, then the big siren, and dispatch could kill the siren, only one in the county like that
What's the switch, big silver button, and that little square to the side of the headphone jack do?
I know this query is EIGHT YEARS old but in case anyone else wants to know the same thing . . .
~ The "switch" is a two position selector switch. One position allows you to monitor callouts for ALL stations that are dispatched on your frequency. The second position will sound an alert only if YOUR stations tones are activated
~ The long silver button/bar is the monitor bar. Tapping this bar momentarily bypasses the PL tone/alert decoder and opens the squelch allowing you to monitor anything being transmitted on the dispatch frequency
~ The small square on the end of the pager is just a pad where you can put an identifier of some kind, such as a pager unit number, station number, etc. There's a plastic cover that protects it so it simply can't be rubbed or worn off (in my experience most people didn't use it because of it's small size)
Mike, I like the way you tried to describe the Motorola alert receivers to the Layman who may not be in public safety. I have been retired from Public Safety after 45 years. My big interest was always dispatching. Our Sheriff's Department in Mcdonough County, Illinois had a nonprofit dive Rescue Team. Many of the guys had Motorola HT radios, they would have from the law enforcement agency they work for. Other team members, would have Motorola alert receivers AKA pagers. If you had a Motorola receiver, the money for that receiver would come out of our pocket. I started out with a reconditioned Motorola Sprint receiver. I had it in the Motorola shop, more than it was on my belt. So I made a change to a new minitor 2 alert receiver, and it was sweet. I think Motorola called that model the Cadillac of pagers. My receiver had my two tones, and Sheriff's dispatch in Channel 1. I had a Statewide Mutual Aid frequency in Channel 2. New Sheriff's Administration went and changed the sheriff's main dispatch frequency. That put any pager, with Sheriff's Department Channel 1 out of service. Our DRT was also done away with by Administration numerous years ago. If I even knew where it was at, I've got a used Motorola minitor 2, 2 Channel receiver laying around my house someplace. I'd sell it for almost nothing if I knew where it was at. it does need a little work, but like Motorola said it was the Cadillac of Motorola receivers back in its day. KSC 343
rip Motorola
@DRIBBLES2500 ??
I'll save everyone the five minutes....go to 4:09.