Incoming Messages
The X5 pager receives 3 types of incoming messages: Alphanumeric, Numeric or Tone only messages.
Alphanumeric and numeric messages may be up to 512 characters or digits in length. A message is
always filed in the corresponding folder assigned to its capcode address. Tone only messages will
create an alert window similar to Alphanumeric messages with the fixed message text
*** TONE
ONLY ***
being displayed. If a fixed message text is assigned to the TONE ONLY capcode, the fixed
message text will be displayed instead. If a fixed message text is assigned to a normal capcode, the
fixed message text will be displayed in front of the received message text, I.e. the received message
will be appended to the fixed message text.
Messages are further divided into 3 types of messages, these are normal messages, repeat messages and
OTA (over the air) pager configuration messages.
1.30 Normal Messages
Normal messages are filed in the folder corresponding to the capcode address of the message. If the
capcode is not assigned to a folder it is the message is placed in the Inbox. Depending on the message
type either the 7-bit alpha numeric character set or the numeric character set is used to decode and
display the message. A tone only message will show *** TONE ONLY *** as message text.
1.31 Fixed Messages
Capcodes can have a fixed message text of up to 64 characters in length assigned. This text will always
appear before the received message text or in case of TONE ONLY capcodes, will replace the standard
*** TONE ONLY *** text. The received message text may be truncated if the length of the received
message text plus the length of the fixed message text exceeds 512 characters. A useful feature for fixed
message texts could be a text of 'Please call ' for numeric capcodes.
1.32 Repeat Messages
The X5 pager has a special feature to cater for repeat message reception. Some paging networks
transmit each message multiple times within a set time period to ensure that the message is received by
the recipient. The X5 employs a special technique to improve reception sensitivity and accuracy by
using the redundant message information to improve the received message. However, the user does not
want to end up with the same message multiple times in the message folder and have to acknowledge
each repeated message. When the first occurrence of the message is received the pager alerts the user in
the usual way. The X5 will treat repeated messages as copies as long as they have been sent within the
Repeat Message Time-out interval. A repeat message received outside the Repeat Message Time-out
interval will be treated as a new message, even if a copy of the message already exists on the pager.
Repeat messages that have been received within the Repeat Message Time-out interval will be used to
correct an already received copy if the original message was received with errors.
The Repeat Message Time-out interval should be set to a value of 75 seconds if three repeat messages
are sent at 30 second intervals. The Repeat Message Time-out value can be set in increments of 15
seconds. A value of 0 will disable the Repeat Message reception feature. The X5 can keep up to 12
copies of a repeat message in its internal temporary message buffer to match existing messages to
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