Plectrons and Early Fire Alerting

What You Need To Know

• Plectrons are one of the earliest types of home receivers ever used for volunteer firefighters.
• The plectron had a different name back in the beginning, and in 1955 it was called FYRCALL. It was the first model that they made.
• Plectrons was the first widely used in-home unit that allowed firefighters to be activated and keep the radio-quiet.
• Similar to today’s alerting receivers, the dispatcher would generate set tones that would set the receiver to activate.
• Plectrons were analog devices and required reads in the receivers.
• These reeds needed to be tuned by a radios shop and would resonate to the paging tone.
• If the resonate frequency matched, the Plectron would alert.
• Plectrons are a piece of radio history and many are still in use today.
• Scanner Radios with “Fire Tone Out” can mimic what early Plectron receivers were.

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