Programming
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Setting Up Users and Stacks
The Digital Tone Remotes will allow the operator to make any page that is valid within the
parameters of the paging formats it is programmed to support. If a leading digit is entered
followed by a valid capcode and then the transmit key is pressed, then the remote will key
the transmitter and send the page.
The remotes also have a User database, in which certain specified pages (leading digit +
capcode) can be given an alphanumeric label and be set to only be transmitted on a
particular channel if necessary. This database allows the remote to confirm an operator’s
entry by displaying the label whenever that paging sequence is entered on the keypad. It
also allows the operator to search for a page by stepping through the database using the
“*” and “#” keys and then pressing the transmit key to send the page in the display. This
database also supplies information necessary for the Stack page feature.
For the example programming session we have been working on, we will enter six pagers
into the database, and then combine them all into a stack. The list pages will include four
two-tone pages to people and two DTMF pages to control equipment. The pages are
shown in
.
Table 13: Paging Users for Example Unit
From the (E)dit window, move to the (P)aging menu and select the e(D)it users command.
The program will open a window like the one shown in
shown should be blank because no users exist in the default file we started with. Press the
ENTER key and the selection bar will show up in the user window on the Name line. Type
in the name “City Police” and press ENTER. The bar will drop to the Capcode line, where
you type “1234” (leading digit 1 + the two-tone capcode 234) and press ENTER. The
select bar will drop automatically to the Station line. If you press the SPACE BAR a few
times you will see this parameter cycle through the radio channels (Fa to Fh, sorry but no
labels used here) and return to Any. This parameter can be used to make the remote
automatically switch a specific channel any time the associated page is made. For this
example we will leave it set to Any. Press the F10 key to save the entries made to User #1
and return to the screen shown in
.
User #
Label
Page
1
City Police
1234
2
Fire Dept.
1236
3
Medic Units
1324
4
County Sheriff
1433
5
Siren #1
3234567
6
Siren #2
3345672