There are a LOT of professional people (myself included) who don't regularly
carry a cell phone. I have been known to leave my cell phone in a lot of
weird places. I have a lot of problems with the reliability of cell phones
not being able to send a message via a dial up modem isn't alluring
On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:43 AM, 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.
There are a number of excellent uses of pagers, including penetration
of structures that are RF dense (where cell
Fire service relies on paging heavily. Although it can be sent via cell
phone, it is extremely unreliable, at least in our area. Sometimes pages get
held in que for hours or even days.
Chuck
WB2EDV
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From: Jacob Suter jsu...@intrastar.net
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From: Jacob Suter jsu...@intrastar.net
Seriously...
Come on, who's for a Paging Sunset?
Not hospitals... we have a mix of both in-house (local) and alpha-numeric
(tied in to a network that hits all 4 states of the corner we live and work in).
They're quick
Jacob, here's just one example.
I work for an agency within state government. Rather than me provide them
with my private cell phone number, they prefer to issue me a numeric pager -
in case they need to make contact with me. To date, they have only used
the pager ONCE in nearly 6 years. I
I'm currently involved in proposing a new paging system to a local
hospital. They feel they have the need for voice paging (old 2 tone
stuff). In addition, this system will page on event when a door is
opened, a system malfunctions, a nurse pushes a panic button, etc.
Having your own in-house
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
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