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* Bloominglabs has two VHF ham radios sitting idle which could be used for the transmitter. Our Yaesu tri-band radio could be used for this too for UHV coverage. Also the newly donated pager repeater.
* Bloominglabs has two VHF ham radios sitting idle which could be used for the transmitter. Our Yaesu tri-band radio could be used for this too for UHV coverage. Also the newly donated pager repeater.


*Possibly purchasing a lot of 12 Motorola Advisor Alpha pagers(http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/motorola_advisor_a05klb5162aa.html, POCSAG, 931.2375mhz)
*Purchased a lot of 12 Motorola Advisor Alpha pagers(http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/motorola_advisor_a05klb5162aa.html, POCSAG, 931.2375mhz)


*The older Thinkpad has an RS232 port
*The older Thinkpad has an RS232 port

Latest revision as of 16:27, 10 June 2016

Proposal to create a pager network emanating from Bloominglabs.

Useful Links

Detailed description of pager networks

Hackaday.io page for the OSOMCOM POCSAG project

More information on OSOMCOM POCSAG

Ancient link detailing a very simple pager network setup with minimal components

Hackaday article detailing an alternative modern pager network setup

POCSAG encoder for GNU/Radio(many decoders exist for GNU/Radio and in general)

Implementation

  • Bloominglabs has two VHF ham radios sitting idle which could be used for the transmitter. Our Yaesu tri-band radio could be used for this too for UHV coverage. Also the newly donated pager repeater.
  • The older Thinkpad has an RS232 port