Owners of an MMDVM hotspot running Pi-Star can configure this hotspot as low power DAPNET transmitter too. During idle time when no QSO in digital mode is running, the hotspot will switch to the DAPNET frequency at set times to transmit pager messages. In Pi-Star this can be configured via the special POCSAG section in […]
Category: POCSAG
POCSAG transmitter with a Motorola GM1200
Previously the PE2KMV DAPNET transmitter was equiped with a Friendcom FC301 datatransceiver. Because this tiny transmitter only provides 5W power, which is not that much in the hills of southern PA, the signal was boosted by an amplifier. For two reasons this setup was far from ideal. First of all the Friendcom transceiver is a […]
dutchamateurpagernetwork.nl only accessible via Hamnet
From 2015 onward all effort by some dutch radio amateurs regarding paging was collected at the website dutchamateurpagernetwork.nl At that time paging was nog really common among radio amateurs, except in Germany. In that country an extensive network had existed, but with the decline of the packet radio network also the pager network fell apart. […]
SMS functions via DMR
The Brandmeister network has some functions to request information via SMS messages. To access these functions specific keywords are to be sent to DMR ID 262993. Then the system responds as well via SMS on these requests. Below you’ll find an overview of these commands with some explanation. The commands are not case sensitive. […]
DAPNET POCSAG Transmitter
Since some time the dutch POCSAG transmitters have been linked to the german DAPNET, Decentralized Amateur Paging Network. This network has been developed and rolled out as an initiative of Aachen University and is meant to be the replacement of the old FunkrufMaster. Just like the old system this network consists of a couple of […]
POCSAG (UK)
POCSAG pagers are still alive, especially for radio amateurs! Some ten years ago a large amateur radio POCSAG network was active in Germany. In PA this phenomena didn’t lift off. Perhaps also because most of the dutch (commercial) pager activity took place in the 2m band. That band was quite stacked and hardware was hard […]