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  2. Motorola Minitor - Wikipedia

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    Motorola Minitor. Front view of the Minitor V pager. The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by civil defense organizations such as fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies. The Minitor, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes, is carried on a person ...

  3. Plectron - Wikipedia

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    Radio Receivers, Fire helmets, Public Safety. Plectron R-520 receiver manufactured in 1974. A Plectron is a specialized VHF / UHF single-channel, emergency alerting radio receiver, used to activate emergency response personnel, and disaster warning systems. Manufactured from the late 1950s, through the late 1990s, by the now defunct Plectron ...

  4. Motorola Pageboy - Wikipedia

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    Motorola Pageboy was the second pager produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, [clarification needed] after the lesser-known "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager" from 1955. [citation needed] The first pager-like system was used in 1921 by the Detroit Police Department. However, the first pager that we would today recognize as such ...

  5. Motorola Pageboy II - Wikipedia

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    Pageboy II. Motorola’s Pageboy II was launched in 1975 for the United States and 1976 for Europe in various types. Pb II 5-tone only 68–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US and Eur). Pb II tone only for 5-tone 80,6–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US). Pb II tone & voice radio for 2-tone signalling systems 68–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US).

  6. Selective calling - Wikipedia

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    Selective calling. In a conventional, analog two-way radio system, a standard radio has noise squelch or carrier squelch, which allows a radio to receive all transmissions. Selective calling is used to address a subset of all two-way radios on a single radio frequency channel. Where more than one user is on the same channel (co-channel users ...

  7. Who still uses pagers anyway? - AOL

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    The global pagers market, once a major source of revenue for companies like Motorola, amounted to $1.6 billion in 2023, according to an April report by Cognitive Market Research.

  8. FLEX (protocol) - Wikipedia

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    In The Netherlands the emergency services use the Flex-protocol in the nationwide P2000 network for pagers. The traffic on this network can be monitored online. [1]In South Australia the State's SAGRN network for the Emergency Services paging system (CFS, SES, MFS and SAAS) is run on the FLEX 1600 protocol, and can be monitored online.

  9. Hezbollah pager attack mapped: Where did the explosions take ...

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    Alexander Butler. September 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM. At least twelve people have been killed and 3,000 were injured after handheld pager devices used by Hezbollah simultaneously exploded across ...