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What other digital signals can I monitor?
Recently I've been looking into what sort of digital signals I can
monitor with my scanner and computer. I'm in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, near Detroit, Michigan, USA. I've monitored POCSAG and FLEX with PDW software. That's easy. There are *lots* of frequencies, they're easy to find, the decoding is reliable and there's a lot of stuff being transmitted, including a lot of text. Then there's MOBITEX. There are a few of those frequencies just below 940 Mhz. They are easy to find, the decoding is reliable, but the vast majority of messages are encoded or encrypted or something, only containing the text PCMIME or PCICAL. Is there software to decode these? ACARS is pretty simple to monitor too, though the messages are often difficult to understand and actual english text messages are very rare. There's another pager format at 940.225, but PDW doesn't decode it well and I don't see any cleartext. I tried to find MDT frequencies for use with MDTMON but I wasn't able to. Some things sound a lot like MDT but nothing happens in MDTMON. I'd love to decode SSTV but my scanner doesn't go below 25 Mhz and there's nothing on the SSTV frequencies above that. Same with weather satellites... nothing... though perhaps my dipole antenna isn't good enough. The software I found can do RTTY and various other text formats but that's below 25 Mhz generally. What else can I monitor? -- Boris |
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