Why do police scanners beep

Page of 4. Filtered by:. Previous 1 2 3 4 template Next. When the dispatcher wants to stop all but emergency traffic, a beep starts to let the officers know what is going on.

What is the name of the beep and who installs it? Any info would be helpful. Tags: None. The priority tone? That way if you are talking to a citizen, that tone lest you know something important is going on and to pay attention. Comment Post Cancel. Hot tone, and while priority traffic is on we call it a priority marker. The hot tone is one steady beep to get everyone's attention.

The priority marker is a constant beeping during the duration of a situation that keeps everyone that isn't involved in the call quiet. I'll see you on the other side!!! I'm always outnumbered, potentially out gunned and always behind enemy lines. I am a dispatcher in Florida, we have a Steady tone which we use to put out urgent calls, then we have a beep pause beep pause as long as we hold down the button it keeps going like that, that is for our emergency traffic, then we have an officer down tone which is kind of musical tone.

What does your departments use for an officer down code - ours is Perseverate In Pugna. We use a triple beeper for in-progress felonies, and a long alert tone for Code 3 cover, radio silence and special announcements. We have a warble tone for BOLs. The code for officer down is "Officer Down". For Code 3 cover, we just say, "Code 3 cover".

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. IredellMon Member. Now back when I was working LE The dispatcher would just announce it It was like it was playing DTMF "".

JoeyC Senior Member. And they continued to use that tone until about 2 years ago when they upgraded the SmartZone software on the system. After the upgrade it was reported that while the tone was actively on, units or dispatcher radios were not able to talk over the tone, causing missed replies. Its use was scrapped. Interestingly, many dispatchers still ask the officer "do you want the tone?

Also, occasionally one will forget and flip it on - however rare. I miss that thing. It was a great way to be able to scan 20 talkgroups and still know when there was something good going on that warrented a press of the MANUAL button! W6KRU Member. The emergency tone isn't used locally due to the reason stated by Joey above I'm sure. In place of the tone the dispatcher will periodically announce "Emergency traffic for unit ". I really liked that tone when I used to monitor the Orange Co.

I could turn down the scanners volume at night and the tone would wake me up. AZScanner Member. Joined Dec 19, Messages 3, Location Somewhere in this room. Right now, you're very col.

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