bassman21
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Back in the 80s and 90s here in Houston I used to pick up a lot of pagers on both my scanner and television. I realized one day that the wiggly lines on my black and white TV were from a POCSAG pager tower close to our house.
Well in addition to the data pages, I also received voice pages. Usually it would be a mix of POCSAG and voice pages. Some of the voice pages would start with the standard two long tones we commonly hear on fire and EMS, but others would be a long tone followed by several short tones (beeeeeep blep blep blep plep). Anyone know what this was called? What is 5/6 tone paging? Was is from Motorola? Are there any videos or wav/mp3 of them? Not the two tones there are 1000s of those.
Thanks
Well in addition to the data pages, I also received voice pages. Usually it would be a mix of POCSAG and voice pages. Some of the voice pages would start with the standard two long tones we commonly hear on fire and EMS, but others would be a long tone followed by several short tones (beeeeeep blep blep blep plep). Anyone know what this was called? What is 5/6 tone paging? Was is from Motorola? Are there any videos or wav/mp3 of them? Not the two tones there are 1000s of those.
Thanks