BCD260DN Tone-Out

Summary: Setting up and using Tone-Out on the BCD260DN to wait for two-tone, single-tone and group paging tones, or to search for unknown tones.

What It Does

Tone-Out monitors up to 10 channels for paging tones: two-tone sequential, single tone and group tone. Use Tone-Out Standby if you know the tones; leave the tones at zero to search if you don’t.

Setting Up a Tone-Out

Menu, Tone-Out for…, Tone-Out Setup, choose Tone-Out 1-10. Six settings appear:

1. Edit Name. 2. Set Frequency: Edit Frequency, Set Modulation (Auto, NFM or FM) and Set Attenuator (On/Off). Press MENU to go back. 3. Set Tone: Edit Tone A and Edit Tone B, in Hz: – Two-tone pages: both tones. – Single-tone pages (1.25-3.75 seconds): tone A, and 0 for B. – Long-tone or group pages (over 3.75 seconds): 0 for A, and the tone for B. – To search: leave both at 0. 4. Set Delay Time: 0 resumes standby as soon as the carrier drops; 1, 2, 5, 10 or 30 seconds resumes after the carrier drops and the time expires; Infinite means you must press HOLD after a page. 5. Set Alert: Set Alert Tone (Off or Alert 1-9), Set Alert Level (Level 1-15 or Auto) and Set Alert Light – choose a pattern (Off, On, Slow Blink or Fast Blink) and, if it isn’t Off, a screen colour. 6. Set Record: On sends tone-out audio to the REC jack.

Press MENU twice to programme more.

Using Tone-Out Standby and Search

1. Menu, Tone-Out for…, Tone-Out Standby. You can also press the SQ knob to go to Tone-Out mode, or assign Tone-Out to a SRCH key.
2. The name, channel number (1-10) and tones show. Anything received on that frequency isn’t heard, but you see signal strength bars.

All Tone-Outs with the same frequency (and modulation and attenuation) as the one selected are also, and only, monitored, so you can watch up to 10 on one frequency. The scanner shows each channel for two seconds but doesn’t scan them: it alerts on any received tone that matches a stored Tone-Out for that frequency.

• Turn the Scroll knob to pick another Tone-Out.
• Press HOLD to temporarily hear everything on that frequency; no alerts sound while you do. Press again to return.
• In Search mode, press E Yes at Set Found Tone A and B? to store what it found.
• FUNC knob then 4 (IFX), 7 (ATT) and 9 (MOD) toggle IFX, attenuation and modulation; FUNC knob then MENU opens Tone-Out for….