True, but it is still valid for those who are at home and want to be alerted of certain things. Pagers aren't just for the belts. If you're at home and not in the shack - maybe watching a movie and don't want to listen to the chatter on the radio, they can alert you to certain conditions - be they operational or mechanical. If you're an ARES/RACES/SKYWARN/ETC/ETC/ETC member, you can be alerted without having to monitor the repeater 24/7/365 (which is impossible without selective call).
Joe M. Joe wrote: > > 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. > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
