I experimented with this years ago. I used a Motorola Dimension 2000 (aka BPR-2000) voice pager and an SCom 6K repeater controller. The Dimension 2000 required several parts and a crystal to be replaced in order to bring it down to 147.015Mhz (my repeater output freq.). The original freq was 158.700Mhz. After modification, the pager was extremely sensitive and was able to decode the tones in situations where I could just hear the tones on an HT. Pretty impressive, seeing as the pager has no external antenna.
The SCom controller was fairly easy to program after I figured out how to interpret the address on the pager. A touchtone sequence on the repeater would set off the pager. I also programmed the autopatch macro to set the pager off when someone made a phone call. After all this, I decided it was not a practical idea. People were not going to carry around a pager, HT, cell phone, maybe a PDA, etc. just in case an alert was going to go out. It was just too many gizmos to put on your belt. I abandoned the project after having some fun playing with it. 73, Joe, K1ike At 12:11 AM 5/31/2007 +0000, you wrote: >Does anyone out there that is using their repeater to support >emergency operations, have it setup to also send out a page to pagers >that emergency operators may have. > >Here is what we want to do, we wish to obtain some 2 meter voice >pagers, Minitors or similar, like those used by most volunteer fire >departments, and set them to receive on the same frequency as our >repeater, when they receive a proper 2 tone signal from the repeater.
