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Hi all... I just started goofing around with PDW 2.53 and most of what I'm getting for decode is gibberish and bit errors.

I'm using a PRO-97 with the audio feeding a sound card.

Has anyone here played with this thing and had decent decode?

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Rob
N7LXI - Seattle

with a D-Tap you can get 100% of decode, I have posted frequency's for all the major systems in bellevue/seattle area if you search if you dont find them i can post a update back here.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Use a discriminator tap. Used base station scanners are cheap enough at pawn shops and hamfests, and are easy enough to add a tap to.
http://www.decodesystems.com/discrim.txt

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-Tom, W1WSO -- Plymouth, CT
http://tf.sdf.org/monitor/

or just hack your current scanner its not hard to do

http://www.naturalgfx.com/pro97_discriminator.htm

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Well, hacking the PRO-97 looks pretty simple. I actually have 2, so one can become my POCSAG radio.

Most of what I've been getting is clean, but about 20% is gibberish or garbled. I'm hoping that adding a D-Tap will clean some of that up.

Thanks for your help guys. The POCSAG thing adds a who new dimension to scanning!

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Rob
N7LXI - Seattle

Rob, what frequencies are you monitoring? I'm hacking up my Pro-2006 for a D-Tap, so I'll give it a shot as well.

931.2125 -local page
929.9375 -national
929.5125 -baseball?
929.5375 -boeing? wa area flex-C 6400
931.9375 -pager national (nypd seen on this)
931.8625 -seattle area medical?
931.4375 - has Flex-C 6400 medical ambulance data?
931.6125-
931.0625
929.7375
155.7600
929.6625
158.7500
456.950
931.8875
929.5875
152.3000
458.3875
459.2
931.4375
158.830
158.05
158.765
155.74
454.175

936.9625 -pager like but too fast

940.450-reflex 4 level 6400
952.175
952.45


POCSAG capcodes & freqs:

{0061066}931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
{0061090}931.2125 KC EOC
{0066682}931.2125 SPD SWAT
{0066858}931.2125 RPD
{0094474}931.2125 KC EOC
{0106554}931.2125 EOC (Gil)
{0145043}931.2125 JD (narc?)
{0155162}931.2125 SWAT?
{0218465}931.2125 KOMO TV Reporter (Gary)
{0227252}931.2125 SPD SWAT
{0325032}931.2125 KCSO
{0366994}931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
{0422179}931.2125 KC OEM/EOC
{0466789}931.2125 Capt. Oliver (SPD 48)
{0499330}931.2125 EOC
{0499354}931.2125 KC EOC
{0499358}931.2125 Diane - EOC/OEM rep
{0592862}931.2125 DEA
{0593857}931.2125 local ARES/RACES
{0634111}931.2125 DEA?
{0634130}931.2125 (testing EOC radios)
{0667717}931.2125 SnoCo ARES/RACES
{0702850}931.2125 Diane - EOC/OEM rep
{0737297}931.2125 encrypted? fbi?
{0780341}931.2125 STATE EOC
{0780344}931.2125 STATE EOC
{0780845}931.2125 STATE EOC
{0780849}931.2125 STATE EOC
{0780852}931.2125 STATE EOC
{0780866}931.2125 STATE EOC
{0800136}931.2125 STATE EOC
{1206035}931.2125 KC ESAR
{1293916}931.2125 (SPD/Sp.Ops-Larry)
{1293931}931.2125 DEA
{1293996}931.2125 KCPD guardian1? Spec Ops Sgt. EOC
{1293999}931.2125 EOC
{1294000}931.2125 DEA
{1294002}931.2125 DEA
{1294021}931.2125 Sp.Ops Narc (Dave) - KCPD?
{1294129}931.2125 DEA
{1312754}931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
{1354994}931.2125 EOC
{1355309}931.2125 DEA
{1355405}931.2125 komo tv
{1355406}931.2125 komo tv
{1414747}931.2125 STATE EOC
{1414994}931.2125 STATE EOC
{1415159}931.2125 ESAR, radio shop? ,incidentpag (seattle),
{1523114}931.2125 EOC
{1562810}931.2125 KC ESAR/STATE EOC
{1637288}931.2125 local ARES/RACES
{1637656}931.2125 KC ESAR (Doug)
{1642163}931.2125 STATE EOC
{1642199}931.2125 DEA
{1943628}931.2125 EOC
{1945190}931.2125 KC EOC
{1984650}931.2125 KC ESAR (Ron)


Flex capcodes & freqs:

[0021877]931.2125 SPD SWAT (John)
[0065555]931.2125 KC EOC/ESAR
[0070895]931.2125 SPD SWAT
[0094591]931.2125 Incident pages (Nationwide) - BNN
[0129622]931.2125 capt. Adams
[0134872]931.2125 KC EOC
[0153844]931.2125 KCPD/EOC/ESAR/Sp.Ops Sgt. Francis - guardian 1
[0197759]931.2125 Bank robbery alarms...
[0225857]931.2125 SPD SWAT (Jake)
[0351142]931.2125 SPD? (riot control...)
[0353899]931.2125 DEA
[0419795]931.2125 KC EOC COM 800 MHz radio test
[0421341]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[0443149]931.2125 local ARES/RACES (Mike)
[0472134]931.2125 SPD SWAT
[0614339]931.2125 FBI?
[0647582]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[0769440]931.2125 FBI ?
[0800411]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[0800917]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[0801036]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[0801728]931.2125 Shoreline PD - Kurt Lange?
[0841758]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[0949941]931.2125 local ARES/RACES
[0995526]931.2125 FBI
[0995599]931.2125 KC ESAR/EOC
[1306129]931.2125 DEA
[1631674]931.2125 DEA

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Ooh, you got my attention. Okay, I'll do the mod tomorrow and let you know how it goes. I have most of the parts.

just remember there is a lot of grey area when it comes to legality of monitoring pager communications, like its not legal for the most part in the us of a. even though its not encrypted the encoding and data on such traffic.

PDW software comes from out of the US if I remember where its not illegal

so when you get up and running and start logging for a few days you will find that you have some rather personal and high security data from the pager data ... use discretion on your chatter about it.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

I just starting using PDW v 2.3 about 2 weeks ago. I'm using an old BC portable with a line from the audio out on the scanner to the mic in on the computer. The software is very sensitive, you have to have the audio set just right. It has been working fine for me. I have been logging only ESPSCA and Snohomish County Fire stuff on Freq. 152.0075 . You could find that Freq. listed on Intercept Northwest Web site.

Does anyone know what Freq. Seattle Fire Pagers run on?

I can care less about other agency pagers, but Fire is interesting to me. I have ran my other scanner to listen to dispatch and at the same time I'm receiving the Text on my computer. So I say it works pretty well. You can also assign a wav file to your favorite Cap codes so when it logs you could assign the old Emergency TV Show Tone out Klaxon.

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Realistic Patrolman PRO-48, Uniden BC-800XLT, Radio Shack PRO-2018, Uniden BC-895XLT, Uniden BC-245XLT, RCA RP-6100,
Realistic PRO-2006, Uniden BR330T, Uniden BCT15X

SpudGunMan, do you have Seattle Fires Freq. for there pagers?

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Realistic Patrolman PRO-48, Uniden BC-800XLT, Radio Shack PRO-2018, Uniden BC-895XLT, Uniden BC-245XLT, RCA RP-6100,
Realistic PRO-2006, Uniden BR330T, Uniden BCT15X

not that I know of that huge list of frequency's is a list of systems that had POCSAG data or something that sounded damn close, its just a matter of watching them and then figuring out if its fire data on the line. its been a bit since I have done pager decoding so havent been watching the air for them sorry :( but on the positive note its very easy to find pager data start with the pager 900's or you just need to ask a fireman to read the frequency printed on his pager. most pagers print the operation range somewhere on a sticker on them. I do remember EMS data on a few of the top 7 frequency's but I think it was mostly nurse pagers not dispatch for engines I will try to get some time this weekend to fire up PDW and help locate it, but the fast way is just ask a fire member of the board here to print up the frequency of the pager.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Thank you! So If anyone knows of Digital Pager Frequencies please post.

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Realistic Patrolman PRO-48, Uniden BC-800XLT, Radio Shack PRO-2018, Uniden BC-895XLT, Uniden BC-245XLT, RCA RP-6100,
Realistic PRO-2006, Uniden BR330T, Uniden BCT15X

This might be a good place to start:

http://interceptradio.com/s.php?sfreq=1&sstate=WA&ssvc=PAG&ssort=1&cfreq=1&cunk=1&z=1

hint: you might find some interesting action on 931.2125

haha rob you keep pushing this "database" but we dont need to ever look there when you just link us every time :)

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI