Interception of paging messages on September 11, 2001

The 911.wikileaks.org website published intercepted messages from the paging network in New York and Washington from 3 am September 11, 2001 to 3 am September 12, 2001. These messages are transmitted in plain-text, and are available for interception to hams. At the same time, official services often use pager text services.



About 500,000 messages have been posted on the site, among them there are similar things:
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Automatic messages about the failure of one of the servers in the WTC (a few seconds after the collision):
2001-09-11 08:46:46 Arch [1612975] D ALPHA PAGE FROM lifeline alert 8933585 ETS appl nbetpsd27.fi.gs.com ETS RTCE: - Market data inconsistent ... Cantor API problem trading system offline on nbetpsd27. fi.gs.com, run by etsuser on nbetpsd27, pid = 24277

But someone lucky:
2001-09-11 07:51:33 Skytel [002691994] C ALPHA TAKE YOUR TIME. I WILL NOT BE AT 1WTC UNTIL 9:30 AM THANKS, SHAWN

There are such:
2001-09-11 09:30:54 Skytel [004678448] A ALPHA THE WORLD TRADE CENTER WAS HIT BY TWO PLANES. TURN ON THE TV IF CAN. PS ... THE FURNITURE ARRIVED AND LOOKS GREAT. IRIS

All messages can be downloaded in one archive:
911.wikileaks.org/release/messages.zip

The people are already active in their wool, gappit, driving them into databases. Discuss and publish the most interesting finds here:
www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/a7xpt/conspiracy_theories_commence_wikileaks_to_release

Just in case, the message format is:
Date: year-month-day
Time: hour: min: sec
Network: Skytel / Arch / Metrocall
Capcode: [########] (the address of the pager, or the pagers the message is being sent to)
Function: A / B / C / D (POCSIG 0/1/2/3)
Protocol: ST NUM (numeric), SH / TONE (tone), ALPHA (alphanumeric)

In general, it is interesting and, in some places, informative.

UPD . More information: http://sunshinepress.org/wiki/Egads!_Confidential_9/11_Pager_Messages_Disclosed (thx: ghoniq )