Fire Tone Out

Fire-Tone Out Operation allows the scanner to operate in a standby mode and respond to fire tone-outs, a system comprised of standardized two-tone sequential paging, short one-tone paging, and long group tone paging. You can save up to 10 settings. When you select a setting in standby mode, the scanner also monitors for any other setting that uses the same transmit frequency, modulation, and attenuation settings.

See The Unofficial Fire Tone Out Tutorial & Guide.

Also see Guide to Using Audacity to Find Fire Tones.

Software known to decode Fire Tone outs

• Counter.exe (found in the files section of several Yahoo groups, such as the BCD396 group)
• ComTekk Two Tone Decoder
• Two Tone Detect
• WinTone

Common Questions and Answers

Can I use the scanner and FTO at the same time?

• No, only one function can be active at a time. Use as a scanner, or monitoring for a FTO, but not both.

Why is my FTO scanning the FTO memories?

• The scanner is showing you all systems it is actively looking for. A tone alert on ANY will alert you whether that is the one currently displayed or not. The unit will alert on any tone on the same frequency (and mode).

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