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From: undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty)
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Subject: Re: Airphones and Receiving Calls
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Date: 21 Feb 91 21:02:19 GMT
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> Also, the SKYPAGER is not a SATELLITE broadcast of a paging signal,
> it's merely a satellite broadcast to numerous city broadcast towers,
> which then broadcast the paging signal.  Coverage is NOT guaranteed
> nation-wide, by their own admission.
 
 Very much true. I own a SkyPager, and have found that it is FAR from
reliable. My department purchased two kinds of pagers for it's
officers, SkyPagers (which I got :( ) and Motorola Bravo's (which are
essentially the same pager, just different means of recieving the
messages). I found that 99.9% of the pages to the Simple, 900 MHz,
Plain Motorola Bravo's got through, as compared to about 50% with my
SkyPager.
 
 It was actually kind of funny. I could be sitting at my desk, call in
a page, receive it ... walk say twenty feet away to another desk, call
in a page, and not receive it. Yet, when up in a helicopter, (my work
takes me funny places), generally I received on the order of 90% of
the pages.
   
 I think it is just a matter of the SkyPager people refining their
equipment, and increasing their transmission sites. It is a tremendous
concept (country, or worldwide paging) yet has not had all the bugs
worked out yet, and is not up to full potential. Just give it some
time.


Sean Petty - Somewhere in Pennsylvania