As I have stated before, our ARES program is in the process of setting up a repeater for our emergency communications throughout our county. It will also be an open repeater when not in use for emergency communications.
What I need to know and can have some help on is the following, Does anyone out there that is using their repeater to support emergency operations, have it setup to also send out a page to pagers that emergency operators may have. Here is what we want to do, we wish to obtain some 2 meter voice pagers, Minitors or similar, like those used by most volunteer fire departments, and set them to receive on the same frequency as our repeater, when they receive a proper 2 tone signal from the repeater. We wish to do this so that we do not have to obtain a seperate frequency just for our pagers, plus some members are not hams, but they would be able to monitor communications during a disaster. I have been told that we can reset such pagers to work on the frequency that we have been coordinated. We are interested in having such a setup, but need to know if anyone else is doing it? If so, how are you sending the tones for the pager and such. If someone has a "white" paper on their setup or a detailed 'instruction manual' on your setup and how you designed and operate it, that would be great. In fact if someone has that and is willing, we would like to use it to publish a story on our ARES site, about such group that is using it and that we are trying to add it to our system