With a prepaid annual subscription, they sent me a pager for FREE.
>builds simple, DIY kits for them
So I highly doubt this would be profitable for you.
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As far as the paging infrastructure is concerned, all the messages are mass-sent, in an un-encrypted analogue broadcast. EVERY device receives EVERY page, as long as within range. It is the pager itself which chooses to only display "your" message(s).
Your DIY hardware could lead you into some interesting discoveries of your local area's messaging/users.
Yep, 20-odd years ago, I had modified a radio scanner and added a discrete output. Then used Poc32 to decode pager messages from the scanner via the PC’s sound card.
Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And some more personal messages, too.
That is the exact vibe I wanted to capture. The feeling of a raw, unencrypted signal that just "appears" without a handshake. It felt more alive than a JSON payload over HTTPS.
