I'd like to explore Weather FAX at a reasonable cost. I noticed several commercial packages around $100 or so (AEA, SSC, etc) and one shareware with a homebrew interface.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to go. I would like to keep the cost less than $150, as that's all my dog has saved up for my Christmas present :-)
Thanks
Bill
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 17:58:37 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!btoback@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Bravo, Bravo +, etc. pager options and programming ?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1993Dec14.012520.27012@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mwgordon@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Mike Gordon) writes:
> Due to a career change, I will be back to using a pager soon. About
>four years ago, I was on a Bravo, now I see that the paging companies are
>pushing a variety of numeric pagers, including the Bravo + (or 2?), Bravo
>Express, the Freespirit (rounded looking moto pager) and those CHEAP NEC
>models. I'd like to stay with a Motorola, (I hear nothing but problems
Since you posted this in the amateur radio newsgroup, I'll tell you that
my DJ-580 has a built-in pager with priority override. It operates any time
I'm within a mile or so of the PacTel Paging transmitter, which is a mile
or so up the road from my office. You'll have to learn what your own
alert tone sounds like, though, since I can't seem to get the DJ580 to
decode the page -- it just plays the audio. :-)
> Also, has anyone figured out how to program a Bravo through the 3
>contacts near the battery? (Without having to pay the paging company big
>$ to do it?)
Oh-oh. Sounds like you're one of those nasty, nothing-short-of-criminals
that Motorola is after :-).
> On a more serious note, last time I was on a pager, my call-in number
>used to be occupied by a "dealer". (And I don't mean a used car dealer.)
The paging company _should_ be willing to give you a new number. I suddenly
started getting pages for number "5000" at random times up to a dozen
times a day. I called the paging company, and they offered to change
my PIN. (They noted that I had a five-digit PIN, which (unbeknownst to me) was
status symbol of some kind, and thought I should keep it unless the
problem got out of hand.) I still get one or two pages a week; if anybody
on the net is doing it, YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG PIN!!! :-) They also said
that they'd abate the charges if the volume got to the point that I was
