Motorola Minitor IV Fire Fighter pager

[Beef08]

Is anyone on here a Volunteer Fire Fighter and have a Motorola Minitor IV pager? I cannot figure out how to put mine on vibrate. I get tired of sitting in class or Church and my pager go off and disrupt everyone. Any advice will be appreciated.

 

[jkwilson]

They come in numerous configurations, and many don't have a vibrate option. The modes that each setting has will be on the back of the unit, probably as a number code. Post those.

 

[Beef08]

i see 3 codes on the little sticker and here they are:
SN253BYQ2696
A03KUS7238AC
F1:154.2050

I dont know which one you wanted but there they are and thats the order they are in

 

[xbred]

i can't believe anyone from mississippi would have to ask for technical info like that... couldn't you say you know a guy from Texas or Arkansaw that has a pager and needs to know how to put it on vibrate....

 

[jkwilson]

i see 3 codes on the little sticker and here they are:
SN253BYQ2696
A03KUS7238AC
F1:154.2050

I dont know which one you wanted but there they are and thats the order they are in

With only one frequency, it probably does have a vibe mode. The switch has 4 positions. If you have an evening pager test, try a different one every day. You probably just have two active settings, 1 and 2, with 2 being vibe, but no way to tell without knowing how it was ordered.

 

[Beef08]

I have tried it on every channel during the daily pager test and not a one vibrates. They all make noise. And Xbred I wouldn't be asking if it was so simple haha I have asked like 5 different people today and everyone just says turn to channel whatever, but I do and there is no freaking vibrate! Its very aggrivating

 

[I luv herfrds]

Dang if you were closer I would send you to my guy, he could get it set up to work with a vibrate setting.
I have the Minitor III and a V, both are set up the same.
Did the fire department set you up with it?
I would get in contact with the place they got it from. I bet it wasn't set up right.
Mine has 4 channels
#1 Repeater
#2 Repeater (Vibrate)
#3 Direct
#4 Scan
Normally keep it on scan and I hear all the pages for the county and get to listen to the road crew.

Warning about the vibrate setting, if your not ready for it it will scare you. Got one of my guys and he almost fell off of his tractor; was a pager test. :lol2:

 

[Beef08]

haha must be some vibration . I was hoping it would be a noticable vibration. Since I was new on the department they gave me this one and i didn't complain or ask questions. It seems new and I have no clue where they got it. But mine is somthing like this:
Channel A is repeater for all the county
Channel B is repeater just for my district
Channel C and D just seem to scan the whole county.

 

[I luv herfrds]

If you have it on a table and it goes off on the vibrate mode it goes slidding across the table. :lol2:

Ask them and find out if the other pagers have the vibrate setting, if they do then something is wrong with yours and maybe you can get a different one. Maybe they can do an exchange with their supplier.

 

[mobgrazer]

Dose anyone remember when the vibrate thing first came out it was so close to 60 cycles a second. I was replacing a few outlets right after I got a pager. I had doubled checked to see if the power was off and all was good. I pickup something and the thing went off. I thought it was a shock because of the way the cycles were. I dropped everything and just sat there. It happened again a few seconds latter before I know what had happened.

 

[Angus Cowman]

the first cell phone i had with the vibrate scared me to death I had it in my pocket with a can off copenhagen and the phone and the metal lid were together and I was running a trackhoe the first time it went off scared the $hit out of me thought I dug into something