POCSAG / FLEX Conversion??

Hoseman292 · Post by **Hoseman292** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:09 am

My department has a group call capcode for departmental messages. Recently we programmed a bunch of Advisor Elite FLEX pagers with the pocsag cap code and naturally they failed to page. Is there a conversion to determine the FLEX capcode from a pocsag or is the FLEX capcode something randomly issued by the carrier?

As always... THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Tim

tvsjr · Post by **tvsjr** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:17 am

POCSAG and FLEX are two different signalling protocols. To put it another way, you're trying to decode IMBE with a VSELP radio by making all the numbers match. It won't work.

You either need to stay POCSAG and look into a pager like the Advisor II (VHF/UHF only) or consider moving everyone to newer service on a FLEX channel.

If you want to get rid of those Advisor Elites, let me know.

The Pager Geek · Post by **The Pager Geek** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:46 am

Me too... I can use all the elites you have.

tpg

Hoseman292 · Post by **Hoseman292** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:53 pm

Thanks for the explanation fellas. The paging company transmits the paging info in POCSAG and in FLEX. The problem is that I only have the older POCSAG capcode list and was hoping there was a method of converting the capcodes instead of dealing with the company.

THANKS AGAIN,
Tim

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:40 am

What do you mean by the " older POCSAG capcode list"?

The Pager Geek · Post by **The Pager Geek** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:21 am

Sounds like his paging company sends out a group page to a list of caps. (Both POCSAG and Flex.) He has the list of POCSAG caps, but needs the flex list.

The only way to get that would be:
-Read a pager that has the codes you want
-Get the list from the paging company
-Snag them off the air with programs such as winflex

Good luck
tpg