Hi all!

I am designing a PIC-based alarm system. The instrusion detection is easy.
The local alarm is very easy too.

But I'd like to include some form of remote alarm. I was thinking about a
regular pager as the alarm receiver, but I don't know how to transmit data
to it. Does anybody knows how to send an alert to a pager? Please, without
using the phone. I mean a Pager Transmitter like the one that carrier
companies have, only smaller. Provided that one can build/adquire the
equipement, is it legal? Does the FCC allows you to transmit in the Pager
frequencies? Or are they restricted? Do you need some kind of licence?

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Andres Tarzia
Tecnology Consultant, SMART S.A.
e-mail: atarzia@smart.com.ar