Notebook Pager Gateway

This notebook was specifically developed in order to provide information and education about a pager gateway.

The information within is intended to provide useful circuits and theory to non-technical individuals. The content of this publication is not intended to be a complete works of circuits and techniques.

This notebook will give you a enough information to actually build and implement a pager gateway.

The following are some Q&A's about pagers and pager gateways.

A. A pager gateway is a device that can be remotely activated via radio (simplex or repeater {repeated or call up macro}) that will send numeric-only and/or aplha-numeric pages to multiple commercial pagers.

A. There are many reasons. To remind club members about a net or a club meeting. To alert the activation of an A.R.E.S. or Skywarn net. These are just a few.

A. Many individuals commonly use commercial pagers for personal and/or professional communication. Those individuals that are serious about emergency response use commercial pagers for the times that they can't listen to a radio, yet have the need for notification of potential or immediate activation.

A. Yes, you could, but there are several advantages that a pager gateway can provide.

• Most commercial pager software packages do not allow mixed page types. (Numeric-only and Alpha-numeric) A pager gateway can do both.
• Usually more than one person is responsible for notification of an event at any given time. Those people would all have to have comparable computer systems. A pager gateway only requires one dedicated computer.
• Pager database maintenance across multiple computers would be a constant headache. A pager gateway has a single database.
• The notification person may have lost telephone service. A carefully placed pager gateway has a better chance of getting the message out.