UBCD3600XLT Fire Tone-Out

Summary: Setting up and using the UBCD3600XLT’s Tone-Out mode to wait for two-tone, single-tone and group paging tones, or to search for unknown tones.

What Tone-Out Does

Fire Tone-Out monitors up to 32 channels (Tone-Out 0 to 31) for paging tones: two-tone sequential, single tone and group tone.

• Tone-Out Standby is used if you have programmed the tones.
• Tone-Out Search is used if you don’t know the tones.

All tone-outs with the same frequency, modulation and attenuation as the one you select are also (and only) monitored, so you can monitor up to 32 channels on a single frequency. In Standby, the scanner shows each tone-out channel for two seconds, but it isn’t scanning them – it monitors the frequency for all of them, and alerts on any received tone that matches a stored channel for that frequency, whatever is displayed. Tone-Out Search doesn’t cycle through the channels.

Close Call DND/Priority and Weather Alert Priority don’t operate in Tone-Out.

Tone-Out Setup

Menu, Tone-Out for…, Tone-Out Setup, choose Tone-Out (0-31).

• Edit Name
• Set Frequency – Edit Frequency, Set Modulation (Auto, NFM or FM) and Set Attenuator
• Set Tone – edit Tone A and Tone B (in Hz):
• Two-tone pages: enter both tones.
• Single-tone pages (short tones of 1.25 to 3.75 seconds): tone A, and 0 for tone B.
• Long-tone / group pages (more than 3.75 seconds): 0 for tone A, and the tone for B.
• Search for tones: leave both A and B at 0.
• Set Delay Time – 0 resumes standby as soon as the carrier drops; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or 30 seconds waits after the carrier drops; Infinite means you must press Hold to resume.
• Set Alert – tone (Alert 1-9 or Off), level, and light colour and pattern.
• Set Audio AGC – analogue, default Off.

Using It

Menu, Tone-Out for…, Tone-Out Standby. You can also assign Tone-Out Standby/Search to a Search Key (see UBCD3600XLT Searching: Quick Search, Custom Search & Search Keys).

• Scroll to monitor a Tone-Out channel (0-31), and to switch to a channel with a different frequency.
• Any transmission on the frequency won’t be heard, but you’ll see the signal strength bars.
• Press Func + System to exit.
• Press Channel to temporarily leave Standby/Search and hear all traffic on the frequency. No alerts sound in this state, even if a tone matches. Press Channel again to return.
• In Tone-Out Search, when tones are found you’ll see Set Found Tone A and B? after pressing E/yes to save. Press E/yes at Save Found Tones? to store them.
• Attenuation: Func + 4. Modulation: Func + Channel (MOD). IFX: Func + 7. Recording: Func + Replay.
• Tone-Out menu: Func + Menu.