[TrunkCom] Pagers

Tom Swisher [email protected]
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:10:35 -0400


[email protected] wrote:

>Do anyone of you know if there is any Motorola type II system that have pagers in it. I mean, for example, if there is a fire brigade that use a Motorola type II system for their voice communications, do they also have voice pagers in the same system to forward alarms to fire fighters on call at home?
>
There are no trunk-following pagers that I'm aware of. It is possible 
for conventional pagers to work on a trunked system using channel 
steering, where a particular talkgroup is always "steered" to a specific 
frequency. However, this won't work if the channel is occupied by 
another talkgroup when the page has to go out.

Most departments that I am familiar with still use their VHF pagers for 
alerting only, or use leased pagers from a commercial service.

Tom WA8PYR