Find all posts. View Profile. Minitor V programming question , AM. Quick question for those in the know We're changing to a two tone paging system, i. The intent is that personnel not on duty can switch their pagers to only alert for generals at night so they can sleep, keep the better half happy, etc. So we have Minitor Vs for all now since none of our earlier pagers were two channel if they were even available. We've always had our Vs set up before this coming change we had some on hand, but not enough for everyone in tones to also broadcast our MABAS frequency on "scan" so we could have a head start responding on mutual aid calls before our dispatch alerted us.
This could often save a minute or two getting people to the stations Our local radio shop states that with our V's it is impossible to have one setting dedicated to alerting only "stills", one setting dedicated to alerting "generals" and still allow the MABAS frequency to be "scanned. Am I nuts? Hopefully my description makes sense. Anyone think our radio shop is giving me a bunch of bull? That's what I think, but don't know enough to prove otherwise.
Set me straight if I'm wrong, please Therefore, it might be surprising to some that radio receiver pagers are still prevalently used among many fire departments to this day. The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by fire, rescue, and EMS personnel both volunteer and career to alert of emergencies.
When the unit is activated, the pager sounds a tone alert, followed by an announcement from a dispatcher alerting the user of a situation. While some firefighters are using their cell phones more to respond to calls, pagers still maintain one key advantage, said fire Chief Anthony Gaul. The pictures below show the pin before modification, and after modification next to a Motorola pin. The pins are held in place in the charger base by pieces of metal that act as springs.
I just had to modify the two unused springs and move them to the locations I wanted. This involved cutting away part of the PC board and soldering the springs into new locations. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the charger before modification. A couple pictures of the modified charging stand are below. A standard audio cable with 3. Happy programming!
The Minitor V charger can also be modified for use as a programming cradle, although it requires a little more care. The charging cradle is populated with the pins necesary for charging the battery and does not include any extra pins. However, there is another set of pins used for charging a spare battery. The two pictures below show both sides of the charger circuit board and the arrangement of the pins in the charger before modification.
The picture below shows the modifications that will need to be made to the circuit board to accommodate the two new pins needed for programming. The circuit board trace going from D26 to one of the existing pads will need to be cut in three places with a razor knife.
A jumper wire will then need to be installed to take the place of the circuit board trace that has been cut. The remaining portions of the circuit board trace will need to be ground very carefully to expose the copper underneath the solder mask. Be careful not to remove the copper from the PCB.
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