Jacob, Yes their is still is a use for pagers. For the general public type in my area are used by the medical people. (Doctors and other important hospital people). Also the other group that uses pagers are the Fire Fighters. This paging system is on the fire dispatch channel were each dept has their own tones to activate their pagers.
I think the paging system took a big hit when cell phones came out. But right now I think it is stable and is being used by a certain group of people. Like I said in my area most of it is used in the medical field. Some business use them as well. Business like a local large HVAC co. uses them. Well hope that helps Paul Jacob Suter wrote: > > Seriously... > > What is today's market for pagers? I can't imagine there's any real reason > for them to continue to exist. If the FCC can force you to quit using your > perfectly good 25 khz rig, force the multi-billion-dollar-a-year OTA TV > industry onto HD, or the zillion other examples of the FCC's absolute > power, > why hasn't someone asked the FCC why the paging industry is continuing to > camp on a pile of spectrum with insane EIRPs that regularly cause co-site > and near-site crosstalk problems. > > Playing with my rather deaf scanner, in a rather low-population area, > I hear > almost no pager traffic - enough that it could easily all be placed onto a > single channel or thrown onto a cellular network. Unluckily, there is just > enough traffic on practically everywhere from 145 to 960 mhz that it > causes > problems on any high mounted site. > > Come on, who's for a "Paging Sunset"? > > JS > > - > > . > >
