>        This is starting to get a little bit off topic, but....

>        I was going to chat with the Agrelo crew at the Dayton Hamfest, but
since the
>topic has already arisen.

>        Any idea when agrelo might be coming out with the 440 or 900 mhz
version
>of that transmitter?

It's in progress, but I don't have a date. The firmware will be a bit
different due to the
synth programming, but minimal changes between units.

>        Also, since you you were involved with the firmware, do you know if
they
>have given any thought to generating and transmitting pocsag (pager
format)? The
>interpreter is a neat idea, but It seems a waste to have a pic in there
just to program
>the synthesizer, handle delays and transmit morse code strings.


It might seem so, but there isn't any waste.  I've got a grand total of
three bytes
left in the rom, and 32 ram. (I did most of the work in the 64, which didn't
have
any more ram)

I don't know if it was obvious, but there's a language interpreter in there,
with conditional
execution, a PN generator, tons of features. It runs a user program stored
in EEPROM

 I suppose if we ripped out the morse generator, we might be able
to do it.  The compressed table is 72 bytes (ALL valid chars and prosigns)
plus the
table scanner.. I haven't looked at the total size of the routine, but it's
probably over
100 bytes total.  There's a bunch of logic for FM/CW operation, and handling
the
interchar space properly.

We'd have to handle the ID issue somehow.

What's the protocol look like for POCSAG?