Checking pager message severity

[juzzbott]

Hi All,

On my pager, messages are grouped into "Emergency", "Non-Emergency" and "Administration" messages.

I'm just wondering, how does the pager know which group the message belongs to?

Is this the "Mode" in PDW (i.e. POCSAG-1, POCSAG-2, POCSAG-3)??

Cheers,
Justin

[cfa4x4]

All the EAS pagers start with the letters

@@ = Emergency
Hb = Non Emergency
QD = Admin

The pager looks for what two letters are at the start
of the message then puts the message in the relevant group

[juzzbott]

Hi cfa4x4,

OK great, that makes sense as the couple of admin messages I've found have the QD prefix, so I thought it must have been an error with my PDW decoding, but apparently not

Cheers,
Justin