Comment on Good morning I choose not violent just hungry.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoYes, actually. Probably still using POCSAG, too. Many large hospitals and emergency response departments still use pagers for this kind of stuff.
Comment on Good morning I choose not violent just hungry.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoYes, actually. Probably still using POCSAG, too. Many large hospitals and emergency response departments still use pagers for this kind of stuff.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pagers operate at a different frequency than phones which has an easier time penetrating thick walls and old buildings.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yup, but there’s only so much bandwidth you can push at that frequency, so simple text messages are fine, but get any more complicated, and you’ll need more bandwidth.
Also it’s not encrypted in the slightest bit. Nor is it unknown. Nor is it difficult to detect and decode it with widely-available equipment. I could listen to my local hospital’s pager tower with a $35 dongle from several miles away.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SDR is fun!
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I don’t have much trouble penetrating old—oh, sorry. I misread…