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Introduction
Transmits a Motorola / QCII style two-tone page with configurable Tone A, Tone B, durations, optional gap, and optional CTCSS. It can be used for bench testing, interoperability checks, or generating known paging sequences for decoder testing.
This is an external app. The .ppma file must match the currently running firmware version.
Controls
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CTCSS: Selects the CTCSS tone mixed with the transmitted page. Set it to
Noneto send the page tones without CTCSS. -
A: Selects Tone A from the Motorola / QCII frequency table, or
Custom. -
B: Selects Tone B from the Motorola / QCII frequency table, or
Custom. -
ADur: Sets Tone A duration in milliseconds.
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BDur: Sets Tone B duration in milliseconds.
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Gap: Sets an optional silent gap between Tone A and Tone B.
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Timing: Selects a timing preset such as
Moto Std,Short Alert,Fire Std,Long Alert, orCustom. -
Slot: Selects one of five preset storage slots.
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Save: Saves the current tone and timing settings into the selected slot.
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Load: Loads the selected preset slot.
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AHz / BHz: Used when Tone A or Tone B is set to
Custom. This allows direct entry of a custom frequency in whole Hz. -
The TX time line shows the total transmit duration and the selected tone names.
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The status line reports actions such as preset save/load,
Stopped, orDone. -
The progress bar shows the transmission progress while the page is being transmitted.
Presets
Each preset slot stores:
- CTCSS selection
- Tone A selection
- Tone B selection
- Tone A duration
- Tone B duration
- Gap duration
- Custom A/B frequency values
Preset slots also have a short display name shown on screen.
Notes
- The app uses the existing Mayhem tone transmit path and does not require a special receive-side detector.
- With CTCSS enabled, the CTCSS tone is mixed simultaneously with the main paging tones.
- When
Moto Stdis selected, the app uses the usual 1000 ms Tone A and 3000 ms Tone B timing.
Practical Tips
- Use only frequencies and modulation settings that are legal in your region.
- Keep deviation and gain settings conservative when testing with another receiver to avoid distortion or clipped tones.
- If you are testing a decoder, a
0 msgap most closely matches standard back-to-back two-tone paging.
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Contributors
How to collaborate
Contributing Guidelines
Trusted contributors
How to ask questions correctly
Hardware
- PortaPack Versions (which one to buy)
- Features
- HackRF Versions
- Description of the hardware
- Enclosure/cases
- Repairs
- Mods
User manual
Intended use and Legality
- Usage cautions
- First steps
- Firmware update procedure
- User interface
- Powering the PortaPack
- Troubleshooting
- Won't boot
- Config Menu
- Firmware upgrade
- Diagnose firmware update in Windows
- Receive Quality Issues
- No TX/RX
- TX Carrier Only
- H2+ speaker modifications
- Dead Coin Cell Battery
- Factory Defaults
- SD card not recognized by PC with the SD-card over USB selected
- DFU overlay
- Full reset
- SolveBoard
- How to Format SDCard
- What if I don't like some of the apps
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- Hopper
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- KeeLoq TX
- Key fob TX
- LGE Tool
- MDC-1200 TX
- Morse TX
- OOK
- OOK Brute
- OOK Editor
- P25 TX
- POCSAG TX
- RDS
- RTTY TX
- SAME TX
- Signal gen
- Soundboard
- Spectrum Painter
- SSTV
- TEDI/LCR
- TouchTunes
- TPMS TX
- 🔄 Transceivers
- 🟡 Recon
- 🔴 Capture
- ▶️ Replay
- 🖲️ Remote
- 🔍 Looking Glass
- 🛠️ Utilities
- 🎮 Games
- ⚙️ Settings
- 💻 HackRF Mode
Misc
Developer Manual
- Compilation of the firmware
- Compile on WSL with ninja
- How to compile on Windows faster with WSL 2
- Using Docker and Kitematic
- Docker command-line reference
- Using Buddyworks and other CI platforms
- Notes for Buddy.Works (and other CI platforms)
- Using ARM on Debian host
- All in one script for ARM on Debian host
- Compile on Arch based distro (exclude Asahi), or other weird distros
- Dev build versions
- Notes About ccache
- Create a custom map
- Code formatting
- PR process
- Description of the Structure
- Software Dev Guides
- Tools
- Research
- UI Screenshots
- Maintaining
- Creating a prod/stable release (Maintainers only)
- Maintaining rules
- Development States Notes
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