Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: >> As for pagers, parts are hard to imposssible to find for most pagers. Since >> the paging market dried up with the advent of cell phone based text >> messaging the supply of pagers has also dried up rather quickly. > > Good point. If you are going to use pagers, it's probably best to > get a bunch and > shelve the extras. Think "lifetime supply". Some used a specialized > nicad and > a charger, others used AA or AAA cells. > And many pager receivers are crystal controlled, and most of them > won't go down > to 2m or 440 amateur. Those that will still need crystal, and they > won't be cheap... > And those that are programmable and in surplus generally aren't analog. >
Motorola still makes the Minitor V, just an updated Minitor III. There's a few others on the market as well, for 2-tone. Also there is several companies out there that make POCSAG and FLEX pagers for different bands. 900 is a good band for that type of stuff, btw... -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
