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Australind · Post by **Australind** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:46 pm

Has anyone heard this channel before? I was out in Midland today and every 5 minutes it made this strange noise and lasted only 5 seconds but its very annoying.

Cheers

Post by **Bonez** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:05 pm

Sounds like a pager to me. They transmit constantly across a large amount of frequences all within a similar band. (This explains the break on one frequency, as the system shifts to another and back again).

The strange data noise you are hearing is POCSAG (do a google search) and it transmits data to pagers who decode it and display the text message.

Australind · Post by **Australind** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:51 am

Cheers for that, I dont know where I got it from but I got it off a site to do with trains, not worth keeping it?????