Does this county not have adequate coverage from the State system? If they do, why are they not already using P25 talkgroups for paging? If not, why are they not using this money for new sites on the State system?
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Price of VHF simulcast Analog Paging System?
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Good point.
Riding around the county with portable in car not noticing the out of range bonk any more. The in building everywhere coverage I don't know about but I bet there is RF survey data around. Paging question: How sensitive can an 800 trs pager be? Old days of low band and vhf pagers they were amazingly sensitive using human body as part of the antenna system. I do remember seeing faraday cages in radio shops and they said they needed them for the pagers because of weak signal sensitivity. Never saw/remember any db numbers for pagers and wonder how good they are especially 800mhz. I have a Unication on TRS but no sense of how it receives vs LMR. Nothing stands out.
speedway_navigator
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We had one when we had a state wide system on 152.48. We carried nationwide traffic along with our own so the xmtr was almost continuous duty.
To check sensitivity of a pager, we used a calibrated test jig with an antenna to alert the pager being tested near it's minimum field strength spec. Since the shop was well within the coverage area of the high-power paging system that was pretty active, the only way to get a consistent and useful test was to "hide" from the signal inside the screen room. Not to mention it had A/C when all we had in the rest of the shop was swamp cooling. 
(add) I think I remember the pagers' receivers, especially at UHF, being fairly deaf compared to LMR receivers of the time (mid-1980s).
(add) I think I remember the pagers' receivers, especially at UHF, being fairly deaf compared to LMR receivers of the time (mid-1980s).
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speedway_navigator
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I never worked on the pagers but remember the test jig now that you mention it. If you mention it in a public school be prepared to be
run out of town for being racist.
run out of town for being racist.
I'm as sensitive to that as anyone reasonable, but even Urban Dictionary doesn't have an offensive meaning until deep in the second page, though I can hear it being short for a slur (and I've never heard anyone use it that way). I'm going with "safe". [add] On further reflection – note taken.
Highly doubt that...
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