Paging for calls

We us mintor 4 pagers. A fire department not too far uses radios to page. Does anyone use either of these or something different to page out. And how well does it seem to work for you. Our pagers work fairly well but the 4s dont seem to be holding up as well as we would like and are trying to figure out if there is anything better.
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Permalink Reply by Randall Goodman on July 26, 2008 at 6:53pm
we have threes and fours on our department the only problem i have is not getting pages in some of the area
Permalink Reply by Jacob on July 28, 2008 at 5:36pm
Minitors. I have a Minitor III but it was not an issued one. I bought it myself. the Dept itself uses Minitors II,III and IV's
Permalink Reply by firefighter1820 on July 29, 2008 at 1:44pm
we use alpha's and minitor 5's
Permalink Reply by VollyGuy on July 31, 2008 at 4:04pm
We have our own radio dispatch and we get toned over our radio. Every member has a portable radio issued, some bought their own. Before we had our own dispatch we were on the county dispatch system and the tone out feature was an absolute necessity to be able to get some sleep and not have to listen to every other departments' calls.

Since we have our own dispatch I usually leave the radio on monitor and never turn it to tone alert (tone alert keeps the radio silent until it recognizes a special tone and then it opens it up for listen). Our dispatch also sends text messages to our cellphones with address and map information. This system seems to work pretty good.

Since the county switched over to a new trunking radio system by Motorola we got new portable units that can do trunking for county channels and still has our dispatch on it.
Permalink Reply by capt4021 on July 31, 2008 at 4:08pm
our company uses a combo of minitor 3's 4's and 5's and our officers have portable radios and i have personally used the 4's and 5's and also have a portable but the 5's weve been having nothing but trouble with em.
Permalink Reply by Beans on August 4, 2008 at 3:24am
we use Minitors and the line officers have portable radios .We share frequencies with other FD's but , you get to learn your own companies tones when they drop.We also use alpha pages. I have however, known of other Fd's that have used cell phones to dispatch.Especially after a certain time at night.
Permalink Reply by Justin Buck on September 11, 2008 at 12:12am
we have minitor 3 pagers we are slowly upgraden to 5 but i want to keep mine minitor 3. some of the guys at my dept. dont carry their pagers and just care their radios i carry both with me
Permalink Reply by Fire Capt. 1304 on September 28, 2008 at 10:26pm
We use minitor V's and all of our members have been issued a motorola HT 1000. We have reissued some of our minitor III & IV's because of problems with the V's.
Permalink Reply by Grant Bennett on September 28, 2008 at 11:42pm
We use Minitor II-V and they work great
Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on September 29, 2008 at 4:35am
My department uses Minitor 3's, 4's, and 5's for the FF's and radios for the officers. Only because our officers are allowed to respond directly to the scene if they wish.
Permalink Reply by Jacob on September 29, 2008 at 5:54am
We use the MInitor II III and IV. I dont think we have any V's . I want to eventually trade me III for a V or IV
Permalink Reply by Jeremy Walker on January 9, 2009 at 11:24pm
how does your department sign up for the texting message to the cell phone when your called out i have seen it and want to bring it to our department but they want more info on it

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