PDW/Pager Decoding Tutorial

[Stretch]

Jaskel, someone deleted half the posts but try this

http://www.aussiescanners.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=1926

[jaskel]

thanks mate...got the proggy open but the needle doesnt move...im using the line out (not the headphone out0 on my 996T

anything else i need to know?

[jaskel]

ok got it working...i use the headphone jack...not the aux out.

thanks guys

yep it is working...see:

Subj: Group: AUB****CP02-L1 [ Router ] Monitor: AUB**P02-L1 [ Router ] Heartbeat (014C) Status: 2 out of 5 missing, 0.054
33 sec Sample: 128126 Time: 00:1
4 2*3-95 286***052[56 0]0*800
Sev2 H***00068***55 ktorii3 ASSIGN ITS-Windows Eng-Global SUMM:Please restore \NTLON02\users\KTorii3 from 6th April, no snaps

[AIRMAN]

This sounds interesting. Is there anyone in the Toowoomba area currently decoding pagers?

I just wondered if its worth setting up. Not much point if I'm living in a PDW black hole.

[bodyguard]

I am not, but there is a bit of pager traffic out your way airman

[Comint]

This sounds interesting. Is there anyone in the Toowoomba area currently decoding pagers?

I just wondered if its worth setting up. Not much point if I'm living in a PDW black hole.

Yeah. I think Orangepeel does. Both the common Pager frequencies are on Mt Kynoch.

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Comint

[Rohan]

im at cambooya airman and i get them good when ive got it goin at the moment i have it off because ive been fidling with the antena and havent finised it yet.

[jaskel]

just had to share this message I decoded tonight..lol gotta laugh

21:42:07 14-04-10 POCSAG-2 ALPHA 512 21:43 (52) THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG

[AIRMAN]

just had to share this message I decoded tonight..lol gotta laugh

21:42:07 14-04-10 POCSAG-2 ALPHA 512 21:43 (52) THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG

Just testing his keyboard?

[casper78]

I really want to set this up any goof freq for sydney???

[Phil]

Casper have a scan between 146 and 150

[Comint]

I really want to set this up any goof freq for sydney???

As has been posted in another thread on these forums:-

The VHF Paging Band in Australia supposedly only covers from 148.0125 to 149.2375 MHz. However, some paging services have been heard above these frequencies, so follow brisbanescan's suggestion, and scan from 148.0125 MHz up to 150 MHz, in 25 kHz steps.

146.000 to 148.000 MHz is in the Amateur Band, so you shouldn't find any commercial paging services there.

The frequencies in the VHF Paging Band in Australia, by calculation, should always end in 5 (147.9875 + (N x (0.025)) where N is 1 to 50).

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Comint

[vk3sf]

146.000 to 148.000 MHz is in the Amateur Band, so you shouldn't find any commercial paging services there.

Although there is a little bit of amateur paging experimentation - the recommended frequency being 147.975MHz

Ross.

[carman]

hey... new to this site... can anyone tell were i can download the decoder.

[rochedalescan]

There is actually a link inside the tutorial but here it is again http://www.gsm-antennes.nl/PDW/pdw.php?lang=eng

[vk4da]

Looking forward to giving this a go !!!

[bloodcry]

Howdy folks.

Playing around with pdw tonight with my ubc92xlt and not having much luck. Plenty of gibberish.

Guess I'm going to have to mod it. Need to make a few more posts though before I can download the tutorial on this thread. *shakes fist at forums*

[Comint]

Howdy folks.

Playing around with pdw tonight with my ubc92xlt and not having much luck. Plenty of gibberish.

Guess I'm going to have to mod it. Need to make a few more posts though before I can download the tutorial on this thread. *shakes fist at forums*

PDW is very "fiddly" to set up. You just have to persevere.

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Comint

[bloodcry]

Funnily enough, the very first message I received was PERFECT. Then I bumped the scanner on my table, must've hit a control and... sniff... it's gone.

I might have to give up for the night. I'll tackle it again tomorrow.

(might plug another radio in and use it, see if I have any more luck. Really can't be bothered getting the soldering iron out!)

[towing]

mm having trouble with the setup you may call me stupid but not working with the frequency and no vol appears on rx metr