PD, together with a receiver or scanner, allows the off-air decoding of POCSAG paging signals at 512, 1200 or 2400 bits/second. This makes it extremely useful for the testing of paging transmitters and systems. Decoding of both numeric and alphanumeric pager data is supported, as is the hex dumping of raw POCSAG codewords. PD uses a simple interface between a receiver or scanner's audio output and a COM port on the PC. In addition received pages may optionally be sent in ASCII form to another COM port. PD runs on an IBM PC or equivalent, anything from an 80286 upwards. It requires 512K of conventional memory and a small amount of hard disk or floppy. Hard disk is recommended. PD runs under DOS or in Windows 95 MS-DOS Mode, running in a Windows DOS session is not recommended.
