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Do you think Paging is obsolete? It is a common misconception that paging technology has been superseded by newer and better means of wireless communication. This is far from the truth. Jim Nelson, President & CEO of Prism-IPX Systems, has written an excellent paper explaining why paging continues to be the right choice for critical messaging.

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“Is Paging Going Away?”
by Jim Nelson

Click here for English.
Click here for German.
(Berlin Revision: November 8, 2016)
Click here for French.

Here is an English PDF edit of this paper formatted with page breaks and suitable for printing.

Volunteers needed for translations into other languages.

With the help of Angelo Saccoccia and his team at Swissphone we now have this great report on the health and wellbeing of Paging available in French and German. Let's work together to get this important message circulated to a wider audience. Dr. Dietmar Gollnick and his staff at e*Message in Berlin have contributed some minor but valuable revisions to the German translation.

Volunteers needed for translations into other languages.

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A Directory of Paging Service Providers is under perpetual construction. Please click on the "Directory" button above. Carriers that want to be listed, need only submit the information about their companies via e-mail. To submit your company's information, just click here and send me the information.

Hello, I am Brad Dye. Welcome to my homepage — THE PAGING INFORMATION RESOURCE — a collection of articles about Radio Paging, Wireless Messaging, and Wireless Data communications.

If you are involved in Wireless Messaging. Paging, or Wireless Telemetry, you will find many items of interest on this web site. Recommended wireless products and services can be located by clicking on the PRODUCTS button above. Come on in and browse around. There are over 10,000 files on this site. I hope you find it interesting and helpful. The good stuff about Wireless Messaging, Telemetry, and Paging is in the MAIN TOPICS section.

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Suppose someone in Venice wants to send a message from the lower left of the imaginary map to someone on the upper right. He could write the message on a piece of paper, put it into a wine bottle, write “to” and “from” addresses on the bottle, cork it, and throw it into a canal. So . . . then bottle floats down a canal. At each canal intersection there is a man in a gondola who is called a “router.” He sees the bottle and reads the destination (“to”) address and looks to see which canals are open. There may be some canals that are blocked due to a gondola traffic jam or other problem. The router then throws the bottle into an open canal . . . and so on . . . as it gets handled by each router at each intersection, until the bottle with the message inside gets to its destination. The bottle may not travel by the most direct route but it always gets to its destination due to the multiple possibilities — and, of course, the error checking that is built into the protocol.

Passive Audio Amps For Smart Phones

These are acoustic amplifiers for smartphones. They don't need electric power to operate and there are no moving parts. They work like a megaphone (speaking-trumpet, bullhorn, or loudhailer). Everyone that I have shown one to has said something like “Wow, I want one of those!” So I have built a few of them.

Of course there are more “Hi-Fi” ways to listen to audio on your smartphone but who would want to plug an elegant smartphone into some cheap, plastic gadget? Or even use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which are a pain in the neck to set up, even on a smartphone.

These have been made with hardwood bases and some of them are exotic hardwoods with interesting grain patterns. The horns are polished brass — made from mostly old horns that had rubber bulbs on the ends and were used in “times gone by” by taxis and even clowns in circuses. These horns have been re-purposed, reshaped, soldered, and polished.

The horns are now on display and for sale at:

Owl’s Nest 2006 Kelty Road Franktown, Colorado 80116
Tel:	303-954-8229
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E-mail:	Virginia Angus Allan Angus

The two large horns — the trombone and the gramophone — are difficult to pack and ship to they are for local pickup only. The remainder can be sent to you. I have the cowboy horn and the rest are in stock at the Colorado coffee shop.

Please call for pricing and availability or stop in for a demo and a great cup of espresso.

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My colleagues and I do consulting work in the areas of:

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Brad Dye, Ron Mercer, Allan Angus, Vic Jackson, and Ira Wiesenfeld are friends and colleagues who work both together and independently, on wireline and wireless communications projects. Click here for a summary of their qualifications and experience. Each one has unique abilities. We would be happy to help you with a project, and maybe save you some time and money.

Note: We do not like Patent Trolls, i.e . “a person or company who enforces patent rights against accused infringers in an attempt to collect licensing fees, but does not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question.” We have helped some prominent law firms defend their clients against this annoyance, and would be happy to do some more of this same kind of work.

“If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.”
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I work in the radio paging industry. Some of the information included on these pages is personal — about my hobbies and family for example — and some of it is professional. A lot of it is made up of papers about Radio Paging that I wrote several years ago while working for Motorola. I add new information about once a week and occasionally throw away things that are no longer of interest. All of the information here is in the public domain and you are free to use it as you wish. Of course, neither I, nor my former employers, accept any responsibility for its accuracy. I can't guarantee that you will become rich and famous if you follow my advice—some do and some don't. The ideas and opinions expressed here are my own, except for those papers obviously written by others. This site is a community effort.

I am involved in promoting the worldwide use of pagers, both one-way and two-way, and paging on the Internet, so if you would like to share any ideas you have about new and innovative applications, please send them to me. I am very sorry, but due to the large volume of e-mail that I receive, I cannot respond to all the requests for more information on paging. I get a lot of very interesting messages, especially from students from all over the world. Several have asked for help in writing papers at school. As much as I would like to, time just doesn't permit. Thank you for visiting my web site.

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Here is everything about contacting me in one place: my personal Contact Page .

You can get a good indication of my ideas and experience in Pager Marketing, Paging Infrastructure Sales, and Paging Systems Engineering by reading my various papers on these subjects. There are copies following in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. For additional information about me please read: Who is Brad Dye?

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Although this web site is not going to be of great interest to the general public, many people searching for information on paging have found THE PAGING INFORMATION RESOURCE to be very helpful. Please read the comments from visitors page. [en español también]

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There is a charge for companies wanting to put their products in the newsletter and on my web site. There is no obligation for payment of a commission for this kind of basic advertising.

In summary, there are two ways that you can pay for advertising something for sale:

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PERSONAL STUFF	This section has a few miscellaneous articles, my favorite Spanish poem, my family tree, and other things that don't have anything to do with the wireless industry.
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CONSULTANTS	Check out this section: Paging and Wireless Data Consultants .

Prism-IPX Systems

Prism IPX Products


PriMega Message Gateway The PriMega manages a paging network from the message input using telephone and data lines to the data output to one or more paging transmitters, e-mail or text messaging destinations.	IPT Systems The IPT is a versatile small footprint Linux based product used for small paging systems and for converting data protocols for messaging systems. Popular for converting text messaging transport protocols for linking message systems.	Message Logging Systems Paging Message Logging software collects data decoded off-the-air and sends the data to the logging server. Logs can be used to prove messages were actual transmitted and were capable of being received without error.

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