Take a look at www.apollowireless.com. They sell pagers that can be programmed for both frequency and cap-code through the keypad of the pager. Retail, the Apollo Gold (a direct copy of the Motorola Advisor Gold) goes for about $140 Canadian. They're fully synthesized and are available in VHF, UHF and 900MHz - they'll all go into the respective ham band with no problem at all.
-M --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: > > And many pager receivers are crystal controlled, and most of them > > won't go down > > to 2m or 440 amateur. Those that will still need crystal, and they > > won't be cheap... > > And those that are programmable and in surplus generally aren't analog.