PDW - An SDR Decoder For ACARS & POCSAG Pagers 

That's like hacking their computers and claiming the same.

How is this like hacking computers? There is no security here that you are circumventing. Claiming hacking in this situation is like walking through the town square nude and then claiming people are peeping Toms.

@@PSUdaemon my similar response was deleted for some reason.

@@PSUdaemon Hacking definition: The gaining of unauthorized access to data in a system or computer. You are assuming that as there is no security as such it makes it less of an offence. Your local taxi company may use DMR radio and give out address and name details to drivers, however, just because a 50 quid radio can pick it up does not make it a GDPR issue. The law is quite clear on radio interception and protects them from any breach.

Listening to any non commercial or amateur band broadcast is strictly illegal in the UK. The law is not often enforced but where information is intercepted and acted upon, then really bad things start happening. Witness the penalties, fines, and compensation being handed out for the newspaper phone hacking stories. If someone just listens covertly and never reveals the contents of what is overheard, then there is little the authorities can do because nobody will ever know. In some countries the mere possession of equipment capable of receiving these signals is a serious criminal offence which will result in a long term of imprisonment without appeal. SDR dongles are available everywhere, but connecting them up to a computer rather than a TV kind of gives the game away, especially if the computer is seized for examination. Just something to be aware of when travelling.

Thank you for watching 🙏

why am i not surprised, australia basically sucks i think we all know that.

Really? I thought the city wide transmitters were decommissioned?

nope, SA, Vic, NSW and parts of QLD, still use pagers

I can remember when I first started on Ham Radio that 2M used to suffer quite a lot with pager bleed over.

To be honest some folks do suffer even at 153. This is why sotabeams sell a bandpass filter. They also bleed into 137 for those of us doing weather satellites. There’s even now a signal actually in the band too, which is worse! It’s so wide and blasts everything on the sides

​@@MarkPentler I'm actually using a half of a 6 cavity duplexer from eBay as a low pass. Couldn't find anything else that was _sharp_ enough to keep much of the top of the 2m band. Seems to work well (according to NanoVNA anyway).

hahaha.. i looked as well..! :-)

@@MevRB19 What on earth is all this "Woke" nonsense. It might be used for that where you live, but here it is quite disturbing and not something you would want to read. There is no need to be rude or offensive if someone is disturbed by anything like that.

Still a lot of bird watchers (twitchers) using the pager networks in the UK - they are using FLEX and not POCSAG though.

If you open up the volume control panel on windows, do you see any green bars moving on Virtual Audio Cable? If not, then that could possible be the issue.

There should be a linux version i'm going to look at it tonight and see what i can find.

Cheers Danielle! I will take a look 🙏

Hi Danielle, Thank you for posting your very interesting comments. I hope you don't mind me asking but I gave up trying to install Multimon-NG on my raspberry pi. Do you know of a prebuilt image that I could buy to save me all the hassle? I normally run PSW but ideally would prefer to use the Pi. Kind regards, Steve

@@stevew267 Hi, what errors do you receive whilst trying to install multimon-ng, if you tell me the error message I think I could try to help you fix it, if not I can upload a fresh image for your pi. Regards Danielle

@@pmr446 Good morning Danielle and thank you very much for responding so promptly. As it is quite some time since I eventually gave up I really cannot remember exactly why it didn't work for me. I know that at the time, spending hour after hour I eventually lost interest and not being familiar with Linux added to the problem. Since I haven't powered up the Pi for over a year I would need to re-familiarise myself before trying again. This is where I ask that you upload the image if it's not going to inconvenience you too much and is so I would be most grateful. Kind regards, Steve

@@stevew267 Hi Steve, sorry for the late reply I have been busy. I will create an image of rasbian with multimon-ng for your pi tomorrow, whart particular model of pi do you hvae?

Are you using SDR#? I found the later versions don't work. When using PDW I revert to Version 1716, and it works as before.

@@mydronevideos3513 good to know, I'll have to try that out

@@mydronevideos3513 I can't find that build anywhere

Sounds like it’s not decoding properly or the audio routing is incorrect.

@@TechMindsOfficial but my signal strength is only 16% and i live in urban area and i think there are no pager nearby....

Yup, I have to agree

ok explain??

Now I'm curious

Let’s just say, lots of medical situations..

@@wisteela It has a lot of medical/hospital messages, not very pleasant to read.