POCSAG Pager Decoding. This is an old page saved for posterity. POCSAG decoder software is able to display pager messages by using a normal radio scanner. The POCSAG Decoder allows off-the-air decoding of pager and Mobitex data traffic when used in conjunction with the proper software.
Hello all,
Wow my first post to linux questions...
I was wondering if anyone was very familar with multimon? I have got the program setup and working with some of the commercial frequencies but am having trouble geting it to work with a local private network that we use for the fire brigade.
What seems to be happening is that the page is being sent as Function 2 (which I think means numeric, as the paging system is quite old and used to be numeric but was updated to alpha numeric) but the actual messages are alpha numeric (function 3) So multimon is displaying the data as numeric instead of text.
I did not have this type of problem runing POC32 under that other OS but it is very limeted in what you can do with the data. Can you set multimon to read all messages as Funtion 3 or some other fix?
many thanks
Jim
Here is the output, as you can see it was sent to three different cap codes.
The message should read 'HOUSE ALIGHT @ 1 MANTON CLS KARUAH'
POCSAG512-: Address: 10864 Function: 2
POCSAG512-: Numeric: 8 7657.54050999
229.02028260.660-94-7.314346]414U 0.4U.144210000
POCSAG512-: Address: 10816 Function: 2
POCSAG512-: Numeric: 8 7657.54050999 3229.02028260.660-94-7.314346]414U 0.4U.144210000
POCSAG512-: Address: 10840 Function: 2
POCSAG512-: Numeric: 8 7657.54050999 3229.02028260.660-94-7.314346]414U 0.4U.144210000
Wow my first post to linux questions...
I was wondering if anyone was very familar with multimon? I have got the program setup and working with some of the commercial frequencies but am having trouble geting it to work with a local private network that we use for the fire brigade.
What seems to be happening is that the page is being sent as Function 2 (which I think means numeric, as the paging system is quite old and used to be numeric but was updated to alpha numeric) but the actual messages are alpha numeric (function 3) So multimon is displaying the data as numeric instead of text.
I did not have this type of problem runing POC32 under that other OS but it is very limeted in what you can do with the data. Can you set multimon to read all messages as Funtion 3 or some other fix?
many thanks
Jim
Here is the output, as you can see it was sent to three different cap codes.
The message should read 'HOUSE ALIGHT @ 1 MANTON CLS KARUAH'
POCSAG512-: Address: 10864 Function: 2
POCSAG512-: Numeric: 8 7657.54050999
229.02028260.660-94-7.314346]414U 0.4U.144210000
POCSAG512-: Address: 10816 Function: 2
POCSAG512-: Numeric: 8 7657.54050999 3229.02028260.660-94-7.314346]414U 0.4U.144210000
POCSAG512-: Address: 10840 Function: 2
POCSAG512-: Numeric: 8 7657.54050999 3229.02028260.660-94-7.314346]414U 0.4U.144210000