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Received an interesting page

Post by Bigfella237 » Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:35 am

I just received an interesting page on my PDW that I've never seen before...

Address | Mode / Type / Bitrate | Message

??????? | FLEX-A/SECURE/1600 | (blank)

(Yes, the address actually shows as all question marks and there's nothing at all in the message column)

Never seen a "SECURE" page before? I didn't even know you could encrypt pager messages?

Andrew

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Re: Received an interesting page

Post by soupbones » Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:49 am

Encrypted pages are nothing new. Though I have not seen one like that with no data following. Usually they have a bunch of letters and numbers and symbols in the message that make no sense.

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Re: Received an interesting page

Post by vk2fear » Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:02 am

What freq were u on

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Bigfella237 wrote:I just received an interesting page on my PDW that I've never seen before...

Address | Mode / Type / Bitrate | Message

??????? | FLEX-A/SECURE/1600 | (blank)

(Yes, the address actually shows as all question marks and there's nothing at all in the message column)

Never seen a "SECURE" page before? I didn't even know you could encrypt pager messages?

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Re: Received an interesting page

Post by Bigfella237 » Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:19 am

vk2fear wrote:What freq were u on

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Just the plain old standard 148.5875 MHz RFS frequency... which makes it all the more weird? I almost never see a Flex page go over let alone a secure one?

As it was the middle of the night and it's (supposed to be) the middle of summer, I think maybe I picked up some skip from somewhere and PDW didn't decode it properly or something like that?

It doesn't really worry me or anything, I just thought it was interesting as I'd never heard of anybody using enc on pagers before.

Andrew

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