Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

First let me said this: I do not need or care for a cell phone. Their
too expensive and I find counting minutes a nuance.

When I go online, my telephone line is busy. So I want to have a beeper
so that my brother can call the beeper, once I get the beep, I can then
call him back.

I had not seen beepers around in stores. People do not even talk about
them ever since cell phones took over.

I did a google search on Beepers and Beeper services and hardly nothing
comes up.

Now as for the beeper, I would like: A beeper with a few features such
as the number that is calling me and date/time. If their are beepers
with more features, news/weather report, please let me know about them.

73, SR!

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

"SR" wrote in message
...

I did a google search on Beepers and Beeper services and hardly nothing
comes up.


This isn't the right group for this (though I don't think there even is
one,) however, try doing a search for "pagers" instead of beepers... There
is TONS of stuff out there. Heck even beepers brought up a fairly huge
list, don't know why you got "hardly nothing."

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Check your phone book.I looked in my Jackson yellow pages and I see,
Econo Page and K'Nex Communications and Ozborn Communications Service
and Teletouch and Mobilnews Communications.Then I did a
www.devlfinder.com search for, Pagers Jackson Mississippi

Check the cell phone dealers in your area too.
cuhulin

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Beepers are radios.



PowerHouse Communications wrote:

"SR" wrote in message
...


I did a google search on Beepers and Beeper services and hardly nothing
comes up.



This isn't the right group for this (though I don't think there even is
one,) however, try doing a search for "pagers" instead of beepers... There
is TONS of stuff out there. Heck even beepers brought up a fairly huge
list, don't know why you got "hardly nothing."

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

I wasen't talking about the kind of Pagers foley likes to play with.
Computers are radios too,every key we peck on on our Rado keyboards,the
signals also fly out into outer Space for ET to pick up.I am watching
Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Radio tb now.Then I am going to
cut the light and get my beautifull sleep.Move over,doggy.
cuhulin

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

"SR" wrote in message
...
Beepers are radios.


Beepers can barely (and I mean that in the smallest sense) be considered a
"radio". They are a receiver, but operate FAR from the frequencies that
could even be remotely considered falling into the "shortwave" band...

Thus, not the right group for your request. Even so, I answered it, so be
happy...

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

www.devilfinder.com U.S.Army Two Way Radios

A few years ago,I read that some of them have a range up to about sixty
seven miles.Kind of expensive though.
cuhulin

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:05:39 -0400, SR wrote:

First let me said this: I do not need or care for a cell phone. Their
too expensive and I find counting minutes a nuance.

When I go online, my telephone line is busy. So I want to have a beeper
so that my brother can call the beeper, once I get the beep, I can then
call him back.

Get the cell phones with a prepaid service that will last for a year
once you put some money in. Then your brother phones and lets the
phone ring twice and hangs up.

Tony

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Phone twice and then hang up.Back in the 1950's my family had a phone
code.Let the phone ring twice and hang up and let it ring again,that way
we knew it was from a family member.When someone went to a city far
enough away that it was long distance and we wanted to know if they got
there ok.Phone and ask for someone by a different name.Is Leroy there?
No he isn't here.
cuhulin

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Tony VE6MVP wrote:
Get the cell phones with a prepaid service that will last for a year
once you put some money in. Then your brother phones and lets the
phone ring twice and hangs up.

You can also send SMS messages from ICQ for free. If your plan charges
you for incoming SMS messages, you will have to pay your SP's fee.

If you have a Linux (or similar) system, you can find a program that
will send the messages for you without a phone via a command line. That
way you can do all sorts of interesting things, include an email to SMS
gateway, send you messages at specific times, follow an RSS feed and SMS
you messages, etc.

Geoff.


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Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

I used to have call waiting.I could set my webtv so that it would
automatically disconnect from the phone line so I could answer my
phone.Then,when I got through using my phone,I would press a key on my
keyboard and dial right on back on to the internet and I wouldn't lose
my place of where I was on the internet before my webtv box disconected.

There are three certain times three times each day that I get off of the
internet for a certain while in case family members and friends want to
phone me.If there is an emergency situation and I am on the
internet,they will phone two elderly people down the street from me and
they will get me on our FRS two way radios.radios.It works for me.
cuhulin

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Would Skype phone work for you? www.skype.com I think if you have
DSL you can use your computer and regular land line phone at the same
time.
cuhulin

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!

HA HA HA!

God Bless America!

73

SR!


SR wrote:
First let me said this: I do not need or care for a cell phone. Their
too expensive and I find counting minutes a nuance.

When I go online, my telephone line is busy. So I want to have a beeper
so that my brother can call the beeper, once I get the beep, I can then
call him back.

I had not seen beepers around in stores. People do not even talk about
them ever since cell phones took over.

I did a google search on Beepers and Beeper services and hardly nothing
comes up.

Now as for the beeper, I would like: A beeper with a few features such
as the number that is calling me and date/time. If their are beepers
with more features, news/weather report, please let me know about them.

73, SR!

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

"SR" wrote in message ...
Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!


So be it. I just thought you could get yourself a better answer elsewhere
that more on topic... If you want to short-change yourself, it's your
right.

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

"PowerHouse Communications" ) writes:
"SR" wrote in message ...
Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!


So be it. I just thought you could get yourself a better answer elsewhere
that more on topic... If you want to short-change yourself, it's your
right.


Actually, I'd say pagers aren't on topic. The fact that there is all
kinds of junk here does not negate the fact that it's off topic.

If someone was asking about listening to paging transmitters, for
the sake of doing so, then it would fit the newsgroup.

Despite the "shortwave" in the title, the original intent was for
people who listened to radio as a hobby, be it AM DXing, FM DXing,
shortwave broadcast, listening to "public service bands" or whatever.
(Since there is at least one newsgroup for scanners, the latter does more or
less it there better).

It isn't about amateur radio, except for those who simply listen
to the ham bands. There is a whole. rec.radio.amateur.* hierarchy for
discussing the things related to the hobby of amateur radio.

It sure isn't intended for heavy political discussions that can
only be connected to shortwave radio only because someone mentioned something
about such a topic on shortwave sometime.

Newsgroups decline when nobody speaks up about the off topic junk.
Speaking up against a pager post may not stop all the rest, but it is an
attempt at trying to prevent an even greater slide.

The question about the pager was a consumer issue, dealt with in a
consumer related newsgroup, or even a city specific newsgroup where there
would be other locals who could point the poster to a local paging company.

Michael

Do they still make BEEPERS???
 

Sometimes it's not the subject so much, but the one who enters the post.

Radio is such a diverse subject, it is very hard to have a newgroup for
every possible radio subject.

Even shortwave as a subject is also very diverse. It can go from crank
radios to boatanchors to satellites.

Shortwave is the mother of all radios.

73 Steven!



Michael Black wrote:
"PowerHouse Communications" ) writes:

"SR" wrote in message ...

Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!


So be it. I just thought you could get yourself a better answer elsewhere
that more on topic... If you want to short-change yourself, it's your
right.



Actually, I'd say pagers aren't on topic. The fact that there is all
kinds of junk here does not negate the fact that it's off topic.

If someone was asking about listening to paging transmitters, for
the sake of doing so, then it would fit the newsgroup.

Despite the "shortwave" in the title, the original intent was for
people who listened to radio as a hobby, be it AM DXing, FM DXing,
shortwave broadcast, listening to "public service bands" or whatever.
(Since there is at least one newsgroup for scanners, the latter does more or
less it there better).

It isn't about amateur radio, except for those who simply listen
to the ham bands. There is a whole. rec.radio.amateur.* hierarchy for
discussing the things related to the hobby of amateur radio.

It sure isn't intended for heavy political discussions that can
only be connected to shortwave radio only because someone mentioned something
about such a topic on shortwave sometime.

Newsgroups decline when nobody speaks up about the off topic junk.
Speaking up against a pager post may not stop all the rest, but it is an
attempt at trying to prevent an even greater slide.

The question about the pager was a consumer issue, dealt with in a
consumer related newsgroup, or even a city specific newsgroup where there
would be other locals who could point the poster to a local paging company.

Michael