jumboTag

The jumboTag was the largest tag in the family, a little smaller than a deck of cards. It could carry both a light and a buzzer, so someone searching a warehouse could make one tagged item flash or beep to find it.

With its optional bracket it mounted on crates, pallets and other containers, or on any item with a flat surface. A slotted hole near the top let a person wear it on a lanyard or a clip. Worn that way, it could flash or beep, and alert the guard station, when a visitor entered an area they were not allowed in.

It slept until a reader or a field generator called it, or until its own timer woke it. Then it sent its ID and other data to its assigned reader.

Specifications

The datasheets are historical documents. Their phone numbers, addresses and e-mail are no longer ActiveWave's.

User Memory 0 - 256 Kbits

Multi-Tag Read Capability Yes

Transmit Frequency 916 MHz, 927 MHz, or 868 MHz

Receive Frequency 433 MHz

Read range (maximum under optimal condtions) Receive 30m (100 feet)
Transmit 85m (280 feet)

Power 3V Lithium-ion replaceable watch battery

Battery Life 1 - 3 years depending on use (tag has low battery detection)

Dimensions 85.2 mm x 54.5 mm x 8.5 mm (3.4 in x 2.1 in x 0.3 in)

Weight 14 grams (1.0 oz)

Case Material ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)

Temperature Operating -35C to +50C (-31F to +122F)
Storage -40C to +85C (-40F to +185F)

Tag options Tamper Alarms if tag removed from optional bracket
LED Blinks when called
Buzzer Beeps when called
Memory 0 - 128Kbit memory sizes available in 2x increments

User Memory	0 - 256 Kbits
Multi-Tag Read Capability	Yes
Transmit Frequency	916 MHz, 927 MHz, or 868 MHz
Receive Frequency	433 MHz
Read range (maximum under optimal condtions)	Receive 30m (100 feet) Transmit 85m (280 feet)
Power	3V Lithium-ion replaceable watch battery
Battery Life	1 - 3 years depending on use (tag has low battery detection)
Dimensions	85.2 mm x 54.5 mm x 8.5 mm (3.4 in x 2.1 in x 0.3 in)
Weight	14 grams (1.0 oz)
Case Material	ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)
Temperature	Operating -35C to +50C (-31F to +122F) Storage -40C to +85C (-40F to +185F)
Tag options	Tamper Alarms if tag removed from optional bracket LED Blinks when called Buzzer Beeps when called Memory 0 - 128Kbit memory sizes available in 2x increments

Quoted from page 2 of the jumboTag datasheet (version 10). The datasheet gives the user memory as 0 - 256 Kbits in one row and the memory option as 0 - 128Kbit in another. This page quotes both as printed. The datasheet also prints "condtions" and gives the weight as 14 grams (1.0 oz), and this page quotes both as printed.

These figures are the original units' claims, quoted as their source printed them. Where two ActiveWave datasheets disagree, this site quotes each and does not reconcile them. A rating or a test result belongs to the original units and does not carry over to a rebuild.

Nothing on this site says a rebuild may transmit on these frequencies as they are. Radio rules differ by country, and the TigeRFID project checks them before it chooses a rebuild's radios.

The datasheet

jumboTag datasheet (version 10) (PDF). This page's description comes from its first page, and the figures above from its second.

Files in the TigeRFID repository

These links open the repository as it stood at its activewave-2018 tag. Nobody has rebuilt the original hardware recently, so these files may not make a working unit as they stand.