/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2674990
It's a fun project that can be done with old surplus equipment. Paging is just a digital mode and POCSAG is the simplest of the protocols to work with. There's a few ways to go about it. Some people use a MMDVM interface board with a vhf/uhf radio and lean on the DAPNET software as foundation to add their own features, such as having emails or instant messages sent to alphanumeric pagers.
If you want a phone number with numeric paging it becomes more complicated. With some tweaking you can get an asterix pbx to generate the pocsag paging protocol and send it to gnu radio to encode the data. There are people smarter than me who've already written software to accomplish this. I use gr-mixalot; it will encode POCSAG, FLEX, and Golay paging protocols.
Around 20 years ago there was a flood of commercial rack mounted pocsag systems available cheaply on the used market, but they are rarely seen now. I'd buy one without hesitation if given the opportunity.

>>2515298
If she doesn't find you handsome, she should at least find you handy.