Motorola Alpha Pager

[mr_tunz]

I have a Motorola Advisor II pager looking for some one to reprogram it. The paging co wont do it for me becasuse it's not my pager but I want to add my own pager number to it. Help me please.

[scansalot52]

The authorization to add your number to a company or agency pager will probably have to be issued (perhaps by a letter to you on company or agency letterhead) by the person in charge of the pagers at your company or agency.

There may be an extra charge (one time or monthly) to do this. That's one reason the paging company won't do it without authorization.

Also another big issue is that both pagers have to be on the same pager network.

Another reason is that an individual pager number can only be assigned to one pager at a time. That means if your number is added to their pager, your individual pager no longer functions. If you assign the company number to your pager, then that company pager is no longer functional.

There is a way (with company or agency permission and perhaps a charge) to get this to work. Its called group call, as I remember. A third number is assigned which like an email group sends a page to both pagers or as many individual pagers as is in the group. The disadvantage to this is that you'll have to either give out this new group call as your pager phone number or the agency pager number. One of those two numbers have to change as I recall.

Your company or agency may be willing to do this IF you assume any charges on your own bill above what they are now paying.

The keys to getting this done is to be able to explain this feature ( and any benefits to them) to the person in charge and getting them to agree to it. You have to get someone in the programming department at the pager company that understands how this is set up and someone in their billing department that can explain what charges may be accessed..

For instance:
Now, if you want to call pager FD, you dial 1 for instance. If you want pager Y, you dial 2. When group call is set up, if you want pager FD to alert as it did, you dial 1, if you want pager FD to alert from a call to Y, then you would dial 3, which dials the numbers to FD and Y.

In my case, the on call guy didn't always hear the page. I lived really far away. The company set up a group call that went to his company pager and my pager. I would wait 10 minutes and call the alarm company to see if the on call guy called in. If he didn't, then I called him on his cell phone or responded myself. The alarm company had no idea they were paging two different pagers. To them, the individual pager numbers were unknown. They couldn't page either of us individually.

Hope I didn't confuse you. I hope I explained it correctly. Perhaps someone out there can do what you'e asking.

[jparks29]

Another reason is that an individual pager number can only be assigned to one pager at a time. That means if your number is added to their pager, your individual pager no longer functions. If you assign the company number to your pager, then that company pager is no longer functional.

Incorrect.

Pagers (one way, at least) are a simple dumb reciever waiting for a specific capcode, they then display the message associated with that capcode...

You can have 5,000 pagers with the same capcode, they'll ALL recieve the same message at the same time, provided their in range of the system.

All pagers nowadays support multiple capcodes, so you can support multiple alerts and multiple messages...

A good example would be one pager for a FD with multiple alerting for each apparatus... one for engine, one for ambulance, one for heavy rescue, one for batt. chief..... So depending on what apparatus you're on, or want to be notified of, you can have your pager set off different tones (or none at all) depending on what you have selected.