Sitepage onsite paging systems sitepage is a low cost yet flexible pocsag paging solution. Flex flexible wide area paging protocol is motorolas high speed oneway paging protocol that supports 1600, 3200, and 6400 bps bits per second bps. The main category is radio signal decoders that is about signal decoders. In house hospital and trauma dept pagers will most likely be pocsag 512, 1200, or 2400 or a mix of each including flex 9600. Since 2003, peter hunt has developed pdw to the most important free. The method of operation of the encryption system is publicly disclosed for scrutiny. Free software supportlan support pocsag coding format. Paging data terminal pager receiver vehicle desktop. Ideally for pocsag decoding you want a scanner with a discriminator output but im using an icom icr2 and this doesnt have one. Flex uses either 2fsk or 4fsk 4level frequency shift keying. The transmitter support 1 and 5 watts switchable output power, and the coverage is up to 11. A pager is a wireless telecommunications device that receives. The receiver provides decoded pocsag messages and performance statistics for the purpose of diagnosing paging network performance. Art paging transmitter for transmission of pocsag messages to pagers or paging.
Figure 2 at the left shows the golay paging coding format. The encoder changes the text data into pocsag paging format, keys up the radio, and yells. Flex can transmit numeric, alphanumeric, and binary data. Other options include an inbuilt pocsag paging encoder for repeater or rebroadcast applications and other specialized serial data inputs and outputs for control of devices such as led signs. Pocsag post office code standardisation advisory group, also known as super pocsag, radio paging code no. Pe clive coopers g8ukn pocsag encoder for dos and more recently. Back then the author moneriomaa noted that he planned to add several new modes. Sign up haskell flexpocsag page encoder for multimonng consumption.
Wipath has developed a wide range of applications that use the considerable functionality of the pdr3000. The pde2000 is able to accept data input in many forms including custom or proprietary protocols and provide a pocsag data output to a paging transmitter. Paging data terminal receiver alarm decoder encoder. Pocsag is a oneway pager protocol that is carried by dapnet decentralized amateur paging network which was developed by german amateurs. Ive built a small little box that can emulate the old pocsag pager networks on different frequencies. Pocsag decoder software is able to display pager messages by using a normal radio scanner, a computer and a soundcard. Supports a wide variety of industrystandard control protocols, including tap, comp1, comp2, and scope. Hiq paging transmitter driven using a selfbuilt pocsag encoder. Sign up haskell flex pocsag page encoder for multimonng consumption. Many radios including some that do have a 9600 bits data input arent up to the task. A pager can receive its address individually or anywhere in a batch.
Pocsag, flex paging sdr software defined radio hak5 forums. The pocsagencode module is published on the cpan, and the arduino modem on the wiki. The pocsag binary code for the complete burst is generated using the new pocsag encode perl module on a linux host. The rfi148 oad is a vhf pocsag paging offairdecoder used for paging message confirmation in large paging systems. Apr 28, 2010 pocsag encoder and 200w transmitter lately ive been writing some more code for the amateur paging network project. The pager uses a protocol named pocsag or post office code. Ive tried the motorola gm340 and the teknomen pocsag radio only. This article is an effort for doing the same task using only software code.
Osomcom pocsag is a free implementation open software open hardware of a pocsag network that allows to create a 100% functional pager aka beeper network. The implementation has access to the flexpocsag encoder. You can configure your pistar hotspot to transmit these messages on the worldwide pocsag frequency of 439. The pocsag encode module is published on the cpan, and the arduino modem on the wiki.
The pocsag protocol was a major improvement over previous tonebased paging protocols, allowing for much longer pager battery life and many more subscribers per system. Send the alarm conditions of up to 3 points to a pocsag pager via a telemetry radio. All the sources for this project are available on github. The pocsag code format consists of a preamble and one or more batches of codewords. On sunday morning i wrote a new pocsag encoder module in perl, and on sunday evening and monday evening i wrote a simple modem for an arduino card to drive the encoded messages at 512 or 1200, or 2400 bits to an fsk transmitter. Pocsag is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. The encoder changes the text data into pocsag paging format, keys up the radio, and yells it from the top of antenna towers for your pager to hear. The pde1 can transmit pocsag at 512, 1200, or 2400 baud and offers up to 10 precanned messages. If you dont know what a pager is, since they are now uncommon, here is a brief explanation from wikipedia. The pde2000 is a low cost pocsag paging encoder for converting serial data to pocsag for transmission via a suitable fm paging transmitter. A pc with a usb port or serial port also pci or pcmcia card an interface. This link is listed in our web site directory since thursday oct 9 2008, and till today pdw paging decoder has.
Radio paging is defined as nonspeech, oneway, personal selective calling system with alert, without. Dapnet decentralized amateur paging network pagers you had two options here. It is pc programmable to encode 512, 1200 and 2400bps pocsag, 150 2400bps ffsk, 4800bps gmsk and 9600bps 4levelfsk. The transmitter sites listen for the page and sends it to the encoder. Jan 02, 2008 using pro84 scanner and pdw software to decode pager pocsag flex frequency. All paging and control is done via rs232 serial port.
The sitepage solution is ideal for local area messaging in hotels, factories, hospitals or other sites requiring the ability to contact staff wherever they are in the facility. This documentation does not attempt to explain the pocsag protocol. Pocsag and flex are read as pulse trains in fm frequency modulation as their spectrum of fsk frequencyshift keying is only 2 carriers switching on and off. Feb 23, 2006 the pager uses a protocol named pocsag or post office code standardization advisory group code. Pocsag encoder generate valid pocsag 1200 audio files from passed input i require a pocsag login to view url encoder to be written that takes passed input pager code, text and outputs a wav file that is valid fsk such that a pocsag pager will successfully decode the audio if transmitted over an appropriately configured fm radio. The pdt3000 replaces both the pdt2000 standard paging data terminal and the pdt2000r ruggedized paging data terminal. Pocsag is a paging protocol that was developed by the british post of. Sending pocsag message using fsk modulator and encoder software. Internal outputs include pocsag encoder, tnpp encoder etc. Pocsag encoder generate valid pocsag 1200 audio files.
We tested the software, and all modes appear to decode as advertised. Or you can encode using a software computer program. Easy configuration using supplied software the art is a 50mw 5watt transmitter for paging and data applications in the vhf or uhf bands. Software supported, you can use our software or yours, simple interface to use. Apr 26, 2010 tecnomen hiq paging transmitter driven using a selfbuilt pocsag encoder. On many paging receivers, they will not decode a 3. Jul 26, 2012 pocsag post office code standards advisory group is a common paging transmission format. Sending pocsag message using fsk modulator and encoder. Yes, the pocsag encoder can be connected to any vhfuhf radio which has a suitable fsk input. Feb 20, 2017 if the info is limited for paging, then look at data transmission. The rtlsdr software defined radio combined with sdrsharp, and a pocsag flex capable decoding application can be used to decode pager messages. This documentation does not attempt to explain the pocsag protocol, only the lrs extensions to the protocol. Can be a repeater and transmitter, pocsag paging system very high quality, 2 years warranty. The pde2000 is a low cost pocsag paging encoder for converting serial data to pocsag for transmission to pagers via a suitable fm paging transmitter.
Pocsag encoder and monitor into our 9600 baud packet. The kantronics kpc9612 tnc capable of sending pocsag or you can encode using a software computer program. Pocsag encoder can transmit alarm conditions midian electronics. From what i recall from 20 years ago, pocsag requires plus and minus 4. The pocsag code provides improved batterysaving capability and an increased code capacity. Provides capability to program cor polarity and cor delay. It is usb transmitter for pocsag paging system, can work with all our pocsag paging system product. Usb transmitter repeater pocsag paging sytem gp2016tr.
I found this software the user interface is in german. Pocsag pagers support tone, numeric and alphanumeric messages, but not voice. The name is an acronym of the post office code standardisation advisory group, the name of the group that developed the code under the chairmanship of the british post office that used to operate most telecommunications in britain before privatization. The pdt3000 replaces both the pdt2000 standard paging data terminal and. Applications include alarms, fire, security, medical and nursing systems, shopping complexes, process and plant control. In the pages below, youll find why and how i did it.
The software and instructions to build the modem have been. All message data transmitted to the pager is easy to intercept and decode at the paging protocol level. The paging network is ran by a server, that handles all of the messages and routes them to the correct user or group of users, at the correct transmit sites. It has been designed in order to minimize the cost in time and money of the network deployment and to simplify the process of extending the network capabilities. More than 50 million people use github to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects. With this setup you can receive pager messages from all pager users on the system. Golay sequential coding gsc is an asynchronous paging scheme. The solution must be capable of being implemented on a wide range of paging receivers. With this in mind, additional transmitters can use that pulse train waveform to be remodulated as afsk audio frequencyshift keying modes in an fm frequency modulation baseband ranging from bell202, lojack, or any other modes as uplinks. When a message is received, either by the web form or via the api, the server does a few super cool things behind the scenes.
A receiver with a discriminator output or 9600 bps packet radio output. Pocsag is listed in the worlds largest and most authoritative dictionary database of abbreviations and acronyms. Pocsag transmissions of different speeds and different paging protocols e. The pocsag code is a synchronous paging format that allows pages to be transmitted in a singlebatch structure. Tx125en is one of the most powerful gold apollo transmitter for inhouse paging solution that require paging and managing messages from pc. About pdw paging decoder the resource is currently listed in in a single category. In this video i demonstrate how to connect this pocsag tx device to my. May 25, 20 the rtlsdr software defined radio combined with sdrsharp, and a pocsag flex capable decoding application can be used to decode pager messages. I would use my laptop and motorola repeater to send some message to advisor pager. Pocsag encoder generate valid pocsag 1200 audio files from. Other options include an inbuilt pocsag paging encoder for repeater or rebroadcast applications and other specialised serial data inputs and outputs for control of devices such as led signs.
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