[TheList] Pager Decoding

Sun Jan 10 13:47:54 AEDT 2021

Hey Mike,

I'd say that it's probably your volume levels.  I've never done the discriminator tap, which may have made things harder, but getting the computer volume and scanner volume just right is nothing short of a pain in the ass.

Right now, I'm temporarily using an SDR dongle.  The volumes are (SDRsharp keeps crashing on me so I'm using software called SDR Console) 100% output on the software, 61% on the VAC input. This gives me an average of about a 40% decode rate according to PDW 3.2b01, however I physically seem to be decoding a lot of messages so I'm ignoring that decode rate 

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Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, punctuation and spelling. 

On 10 January 2021 2:04:22 pm NZDT, Mike Trump <mtrump at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>Happy New Year to one and all.
>I have a little query regarding pager decoding using the PDW software 
>and I'm not sure if it's a setting that's wrong
>or the way I've set this up.
>For years I used this program to monitor the Fire Service FLEX paging
>on 
>157.9500, using a Uniden UBC-9000 scanner
>via a discriminator tap I'd installed in it and it worked good as gold,
>
>until one day the scanner just stopped
>receiving anything at all (it's on the list of things to fix, once I
>get 
>around to it).
>Today I tried the software again, just out of curiosity with a handheld
>
>scanner plugged into my laptop microphone
>input, I'm pretty sure I have all the audio levels correct and the 
>software is running fine, but it won't decode anything?
>I got a few POCSAG messages but that was it, have I messed something up
>
>here?
>Does anyone else here use a setup like this?
>
>Cheers,
>Mike Trump.
>
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