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Listen 👂📶 Commonly 137–160 MHz / 450 MHz (region dependent)
POCSAG Receiver
Decode pager messages
#receive#pager#pocsag#decode
Legal & safety note
Receiving is passive, but in many countries it is illegal to decode, record, or act on paging messages not addressed to you. Treat this as a protocol-learning tool and follow your local radio-privacy laws.
What it does
SimpleBefore phones, people carried little beepers called pagers that received short messages. Some hospitals and services still use them. This app can catch those beeper messages and show the text on screen. You are only reading what is already in the air.
How to use it, step by step
Simple- Open the 'POCSAG RX' app.
- Set it to listen on a pager frequency used in your area.
- Wait for a beeper message to arrive.
- Read the decoded text on the screen.
Examples
Protocol study
Observe how address codewords and message codewords are interleaved in a POCSAG batch.