Phrack Magazine published a good overview of paging. Most pagers today use the POCSAG signalling format. With a regular scanner and the cables & diagrams in this Still NEWer PD203 package, you can decode the pager data as it's send over the air. There is NEW PE200another package to encode the data and send it to a transmitter. L0pht Heavy Industries will sell you their LHI POCSAG DECODER as an assembled unit or in kit form. You can spend a lot more money and buy a pre-made unit from Electronic Countermeasures or Radio Design Group.

The IXO protocol (variously known as IXO, PET, and TAP) allows for alphanumeric messages to be transmitted.

Tired of paying for paging service? Want to use a load of deactivated pagers for your own nefarious plans? Kantronics can sell you a TNC with POCSAG paging capabilities for use with your amateur radio. You can retrofit the pagers yourself (with a new crystal) or Techno (DDL) will do it for you.

There are several Internet Gateways to paging services.

Note: Many of the pager programming packages below should be unzipped to a floppy, and the installed (using install, setup, or whatever) onto the hard drive from that floppy.

Due to the questionable nature of these files, we could not distribute these files on the CD. However, you may attemt to download them from our website until we receive notification from vendors to remove the otherwise harmless files. Motorola pager programming software:

• Bravo Plus / LifeStyle Plus V3.00.02
• Bravo - synthesized (missing file ??)
• Renegade (missing file ??) - with some Renegades, you may have to use the Free-Spirit software.
• Free Spirit (missing file ??)
• Memo Express ver. R02.00.00

The following pager programming software and UPA schematics are courtesy of Techno (DDL) :

• NEC
• Uniden XLT V1.4
• Uniden XLT FLEX V2.0
• Newer NEC, version 5, does models as old as the IDP6000 and as new as the Message Exec FLX. CAUTION: This file is 961K
• Motorola Bravo Plus
• Motorola Bravo Express
• Motorola Advisor
• Motorola Ultra Express
• Motorola Ultra Express FLEX WARNING: a virus has been reported in the program. (trojector.1561 in runit.exe)
• Motorola Renegade

Schematics - jpg gif Unofficial parts list:

• U001 = 78L05
• U002 = MC33063 DC to DC converter
• U003 = max 232
• U004 = LM339

Panasonic EP-2G numeric pager programming software

OI Electric PocketBell Numeric and Alphanumberic pager programming software

Motorola Pro Encore/Bravo FLX/RSVP FLX programming software

Motorola Advisor Gold FLX programming software

Motorola Encore software

Passwords: According to several usenet posts, the password the PageNet uses is "THEBEST", with no spaces, upper case. Does anyone know any others?

PageNet News Cap-codes: 0354991 0354999 (nationwide 2400)

SkyTel SkyNews: 2009089

Mobilecomm Newsbrief: 931.8125 Mhz 0037399

Mobilecomm Finance: 929.5375 Mhz 0030001

Mobilecomm World News: 0030002

Mobilecomm Sports: 0030003

Mobilecomm National Weather: 0030004

Pagemart Nationwide: 929.6625 Mhz, 1300007 and 1300023

Pagemart Nationwide: 929.7125 Mhz, 1300023 and 1300007

AT&T Wireless, Major Texas Cities: 931.5125 Mhz, 0142991 and 01422999

A+ Network: 929.0125 Mhz, 1825511 and 1825519

Airtouch: 931.0625 Mhz, 0999999 and 0111999

Please tellme any more you find!

UseNet Newsgroup for pagers, pager technology: tnn.comm.pager

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