Tampa Fire Alpha Pagers?

[CanesFan95]

Are they using alpha pagers and what's the frequency? Thanks.

 

[Bolt21]

929.6125. Hadn't checked it lately, so I tuned it in, heard activity, and subsequently heard TFR dispatching a call.

 

[kayleesdad]

I've been thinking about monitoring paging info. What would be a good pager for the tampa bay area? I guess it would have to be programmable and cover as many frequency ranges as possible...or can you connect a scanner to a computer and monitor pages that way?

 

[Bolt21]

Homeboys, did you copy?

 

[FireOfLight]

Dumb Question?

Homeboys, did you copy?

Would this work to help monitor Tone-Outs?

 

[CanesFan95]

Homeboys, did you copy?

Roger that! :lol: It's workin', hittin' the strauwberry patch. It woulda taken forevah to figure dat one out, nomsayin? Anummm bagquiet...

Seriously though, thanks a lot!

 

[CanesFan95]

Would this work to help monitor Tone-Outs?

You mean the tones that set off the bells at the stations with the voice dispatching? No, this is for alphanumeric paging which is like 1-way text messaging.

 

[CanesFan95]

I've been thinking about monitoring paging info. What would be a good pager for the tampa bay area? I guess it would have to be programmable and cover as many frequency ranges as possible...or can you connect a scanner to a computer and monitor pages that way?

Look into a brand called Apollo Pagers. They're hand-programmable. But if you'd rather use a computer and scanner, you'll need to do a discriminator tap.

 

[kayleesdad]

this pdw v.3.1 program picks up pocsag at 460.6 using audio connector p106 speaker-out to laptop microphone with 100% decode. doesn't seem to do the hillsborough flex in the 929's without a discriminator output, though.

 

[CanesFan95]

Yeah. The 929-932 MHz paging uses faster buad rates and I think that's why you need a discriminator. Not sure if Pinellas is still using any GOLAY, but there might still be GOLAY pages on 460.60. Winflex (an older program) can partly decode this.