NC Cap Code

[yardbird]

I have a couple of old Unication Alpha Elite Pagers.

I was wanting to find out if anyone has a code for weather alerting purposes.

I want to set the pagers up to receive weather related alpha pages.

I live in the Charlotte Metro Area of NC

The pages are set to 929.5125 Mhz. and 929.6125 Mhz.

Any help would greatly be appreciated

Thanks

David

 

[chief21]

NOAA weather alerts are transmitted on certain channels in the 162 MHz band. The single, long alert tone is 1050 Hz. Unless those pagers are also designed to receive VHF voice signals, I'm afraid you might be out of luck.
I believe that the Unication Elite pagers receive 900 MHz FLEX digital text which, to the best of my knowledge, is not supported by NOAA.

 

[RaleighGuy]

I have a couple of old Unication Alpha Elite Pagers.

I was wanting to find out if anyone has a code for weather alerting purposes.

I want to set the pagers up to receive weather related alpha pages.

As @chief21 said NOAA broadcasts do not use cap codes nor do they operate in the 900 MHz range, the Alpha Elite pagers are not for wx alerting purposes. There are paid services (third parties, not NOAA) that offer the service, however these are becoming fewer and fewer (and more expensive) as alpha/numeric pagers become dinosaurs, however you'd probably need to reprogram the pager for their frequencies.

 

[yardbird]

I had the weather alerts in my old Charlotte Fire Alpha Pager when I worked there.

Thanks

Much Appreciated

David

 

[OnYourSix]

@yardbird what you are looking for is "Datacasting". It was very popular 20 years ago, and now its non-existent. About 5 years ago I found all of the CAP CODES for stocks, weather, sports, etc, and no matter what frequency I put in, nothing ever came out. The last ones to use datacasting was SPOK and Mobility. I had an alpha pager until 2019 because there was no cell coverage in 2 of the buildings where I worked. I have three Apollo 900 mhz pagers sitting here that aren't worth anything because there is no more free datacasting.

 

[yardbird]

Thanks

I was nice when things were simpler. Technology is changing things everyday

David

 

[wruv983]

Pretty sure you want the FIPS Zone code for area specific alerting.