Re: Blast from the past
By: monsieurmarc to echicken on Fri May 12 2017 05:04 am

Many thanks for the reply.
Distraction wise I have been playing with POCSAG paging. Its rather fun.

never knew tooo much about pocsag, until I give my nephew who is interested in amateur radio an sdr receiver and introduced hom to sdr# and fldigi and the like, and he was decoding pagers from a hospital many miles away, I could'nt understand if it were just an anomoly, ot if they purposely transmitted high power. I would'nt know why someone 2 states south of a hospital that room 3156 needs their bedpans changed.

and could almpost say that some of the transmissions were on the border of breaking hippa regulations.

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Re: Re: Blast from the past
By: monsieurmarc to Vk3jed on Mon May 15 2017 04:47 am

Interesting that we all seem to of tried the same things :-)

With my budget, I try everything that I can do that is cheap as possible, and it is amazing what can be done on a budget.

I remember reading a post on facebook one day where they were speaking about old satellites that were decomissioned and state agencies fears of someone taking them over, and people were posting how hard it would be to reproduce the technology necessary to do that. I'm thinking to myself, not really.. if one still has both tx/rx and is taking commands, all someone would need is a freaking 30 dollar HT, a rasberry Pi, and "possibly" a better antenna. and of course knowledge of what guidance signals it would need in the first place..

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Re: Blast from the past
By: monsieurmarc to echicken on Fri May 12 2017 05:04 am

never knew tooo much about pocsag, until I give my nephew who is interested in amateur radio an sdr receiver and introduced hom to sdr# and fldigi and the like, and he was decoding pagers from a hospital many miles away, I could'nt understand if it were just an anomoly, ot if they purposely transmitted high power. I would'nt know why someone 2 states south of a hospital that room 3156 needs their bedpans changed.

and could almpost say that some of the transmissions were on the border of breaking hippa regulations.

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Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
KK4QBN BBS

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They are common in hospitals here also. Though I havent tried listening to them.
I am enjoying sending to my own pager at the mo

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