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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Bob (and all),</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">When I looked at the pagers I was focused on Freq</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">, everything I read said I should be loo</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">king for the 140Mhz models. I have to be back up in Baltimore this weekend, I'll see if I can make</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">arrangements</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> see them again....</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Any suggestions on what I should look for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">The box I saw had about 50 pagers, all were for 900Mhz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I> <FONT FACE="Consolas">(per the guy showing them to me),</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">the few I did look at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">were 900Mhz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">most of them were</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Motorola.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Robert Bruninga [<A HREF="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">mailto:bruninga@usna.edu</A>]<BR>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 14:53<BR>
To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List'<BR>
Subject: RE: Text Pagers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">The topic of text messaging for amateur radio using Pagers came</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">up last week. Our local N3UJJ found a box of ALPHA text pagers</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">for 900 MHz for about $4 each if we bought the whole box. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Question is, does anyone know how to transmit to them? We have</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">900 MHz transmitters, so that is not the issue (I got some for</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ATV from the early cell days)... Just need to know the code to</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">transmit? For N3UJJ, do we know if they are POCSAG pagers or</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">what? I do have a KPC-9612+ that can generate POCSAG.. Or do</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">pagers also have passwords and so without those, we'd be stuck?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">The web page of the hackers in Germany that were building an</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">amateur radio paging capability seems to have been abandoned,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">and no further progress is being made there.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">I'd be happy to buy in, if someone else has the time to figure</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">them out?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Maybe N3UJJ can find more specific nameplate data?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Bob</FONT></SPAN></P>
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