Gold Apollo AL-A28 Owner's manual

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Contents
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Contents
GETTING STARTED .................................................................................................................................................................. 1
E QUIPMENT R EQUIRED ............................................................................................................................................................... 1
E QUIPMENT S ETUP ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1
INSTALLING PROGRAMMER SOFTWARE ......................................................................................................................... 3
I NSTALLATION ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3
R UNNING .................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
ALA28 PROGRAMMING .......................................................................................................................................................... 7
I NTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................................... 7
S TARTING THE P ROGRAMMER ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
C ODE AND F EATURES M ENU ....................................................................................................................................................... 9
Frequency.............................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Capcode (Decimal Address)................................................................................................................................................ 10
Message Type Status............................................................................................................................................................ 12
Auto Increase 1 after write.................................................................................................................................................. 14
A LERT AND S TATUS .................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Alerts and Status ................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Manu Of Pager ................................................................................................................................................................... 18
Manual Write....................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Prompts ............................................................................................................................................................................... 20
P ROMPTS E DIT .......................................................................................................................................................................... 21
S OURCE P ROMPTS .................................................................................................................................................................... 22
F ILE | O PEN (C TRL + O) ............................................................................................................................................................ 23
F ILE | S AVE (C TRL + S) ............................................................................................................................................................. 23
F ILE | E XIT (C TRL + E).............................................................................................................................................................. 24
P AGER | R EAD (F3) ................................................................................................................................................................... 24
P AGER | W RITE (F4).................................................................................................................................................................. 25
A BOUT ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 26

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Getting Started
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Getting Started
The ALA28 Pager Programming software, provides the flexibility to program
ALA28 pagers to meet individual requirements. To obtain the best results
from the product, please take a few minutes to read this instruction guide.
Equipment Required
To install and operate the programmer, you need a system that meets the
following minimum requirements:
An personal computer (PC) with printer port, or compatible
Windows 98 SE or above operating system (XP Recommended)
256 MB of RAM
ALA28 Programmer
A DB25 male-male printer cable
ALA28 Pager Programming Software
Equipment Setup
Refer to Figure 1 while performing the follows:
1. At the rear of the PC, connect the DB25 male-male interface cable to
the printer port on your computer.
2. Plug end of the DB25 cable into the ALA28 programmer.
3. Hardware installation is complete.

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Installing Programmer Software
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Installing Programmer Software
Installation
Install the programmer software into a PC as follows:
1. Uncompress the ALA28V375.zip and save them in a temporary
directory.
2. Double click the setup.exe file. Click on “Y”.
3. Click “Next” on the Welcome screen.
4. Enter your user information and click “Next”.
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Installing Programmer Software
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5. Choose where the program should be installed and click “Next”.
6. On the Select Program Folder screen choose where you would like the
program to show up in your start menu and click “Install”.

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Installing Programmer Software
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7. Click “Finish” on the Setup Complete screen.

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Running
You now have the program installed. To run it from the Start menu/
Programs/ Gold Apollo /ALA28 Pager Programmer

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Introduction
Preparing a Pager for Reading or Programming:
Establish a computer hardware configuration.
Run the programming software of ALA28.
A Power LED illuminates on the Programming Interface to indicate
proper contact. If the Power LED did not illuminate then you must check
the configuration and restart the programming software of ALA28.
Align the pager contact pin holes with the contact pins of the ALA28
Programmer.
Press down on the pager until it is tight in the fixture.
Turn the pager off or wait the pager until standby mode. The pager is
now ready to read or program.
Starting the Programmer
The application can be launched from
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ALA28 Pager Programmer. The following window appears
Input your password. If key in wrong password for 3 times, the system shuts
off automatically. If the password is correct, the following window appears
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Now, the system examines that the ALA28 programmer is well installed. If
any questions, the following window appears
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Please re-check the ALA28 programmer and printer port are well installed or
not. If connection successfully with the ALA28 programmer. The system
enters the Code and Features Menu
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Code and Features Menu
Frequency
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You can select the range of frequency and all setting will load default value.
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The frequency is on which the pager operates.
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The baud rate is on which the pager operates.

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Capcode (Decimal Address)
Cap #1
Please input 1
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Capcode (7 Dec digits between 8 and 2097151).
ON
Enable or disable 2
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Capcode (address).
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Click to set function bit(A
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B
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C
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D) message control.

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Function Bit(A
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B
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C
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D) Message Display:
N: STD Number.
P: PRC Number.
A: Alpha number.
I: Ideographic.
T: Tone only
D: Disable

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Function Bit(A
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B
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C
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D) Priority Alert: V is Enable, - is disable.
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Function Bit(A
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B
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C
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D) Message Type:
P: Personal.
1 to 9: Mail Drop 1 to Mail Drop 9.
A to E: Mail Drop A to Mail Drop E.
G: Group.
Message Type Status
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Click to set personal and mail drop(1~9
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A~E) alert length.

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The available selections for all personal and group call messages alerts are:
02: 2 sec.
08: 8 sec.
16: 16 sec.
32: 32 sec.
CT: continuous.
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The available selections for mail drop messages alerts are:
--: Disable.
BP: Short Beep.
01: 1 sec.
16: 16 sec.
Auto Increase 1 after write
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1
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capcode always increment by one after write.
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2
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capcode always increment by one after write.

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Alert and Status
Alerts and Status
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If it is selected, duplication detection is performed on all personal messages
with the same message type as the new message, on a character by character
basis. Error characters are ignored during the check. If all non-error
characters in both messages match, the existing matching message is flagged
as a duplicate. The message with the least number of errors is stored and the
other messages are discarded. Duplication is not performed on mail-drop
messages.
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If it is selected, error message will be discarded.
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If it is selected, the message will show the address source at last.

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This value represents the battery voltage level necessary for the battery gauge
to display a full battery. If the battery voltage is higher or equal to this value,
the full battery gauge icon is displayed. Valid selections are: 1.58V, 1.53V,
1.48V, 1.43V, 1.39V, 1.35V, 1.29V, 1.23V, 1.19V, 1.14V, 1.09V, 1.05V, and
1.00V. The High level must be greater than the Med level, and the Med level
Must be greater than the Low level. None of the levels can be equal to each
other.
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This value represents the battery voltage level necessary for the battery gauge
to display a full battery. If the battery voltage is higher or equal to this value,
the full battery gauge icon is displayed. Valid selections are: 1.58V, 1.53V,
1.48V, 1.43V, 1.39V, 1.35V, 1.29V, 1.23V, 1.19V, 1.14V, 1.09V, 1.05V, and
1.00V. The High level must be greater than the Med level, and the Med level
Must be greater than the Low level. None of the levels can be equal to each
other.
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This value represents the battery voltage level necessary for the battery gauge
to display a full battery. If the battery voltage is higher or equal to this value,
the full battery gauge icon is displayed. Valid selections are: 1.58V, 1.53V,
1.48V, 1.43V, 1.39V, 1.35V, 1.29V, 1.23V, 1.19V, 1.14V, 1.09V, 1.05V, and
1.00V. The High level must be greater than the Med level, and the Med level
Must be greater than the Low level. None of the levels can be equal to each
other.
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If it is selected, the back-light will turn on after any key be pressed.
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If it is selected, the RD key can use as delete feature at read message moment.
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If it is selected, the RD key can use as Pager off feature at time display
moment.

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If it is selected, then the message most length is 2,000 characters, otherwise the
length only can be 300 characters.
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If it is selected, beep and vibration will active together.
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If it is selected, the message will indicate the counter number at first.
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If “Direct” is selected then the message will show on the display at a message
received. Otherwise it only shows a message location icon on the display.
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When the paging display is “Direct”, if it is selected, the back-light will turn
on at a message received.
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If it is selected, the pager emits a, low battery cell alert when the battery
reaches a low cell state.
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It select the RF signal polarity is normal or invert.
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With an out-of-service time specified by the code plug, the pager is considered
“out of service” when it does not detect a POCSAG synchronization word for
that time period. The out-of-service icon displays at this time. Valid selections
are: disabled, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min and 10 min.
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If it is selected, the external buzzer in the charger will turn on at the same
time with the internal pager’s beep.

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The current pager display changes after the selected time frame has expired.
Valid selections are: 8 sec, 12 sec, 20 sec and 30 sec.
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It selects the LCD display contract level.
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The value is a sequential lockout timer begins when a message arrives and is
flagged as being sequentially locked out. If duplicate messages arrive, one of
the messages is disregarded and not flagged as a duplicate. Valid selections are
disabled, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 120 seconds, 175 seconds and 240 seconds.
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With this option selected, the time period begins with a newly arrived message
and is reset every time a new message is received. Once the time period
expires, the pager does not emit any more reminder alerts until a new message
arrives. Valid time period selections are: Disable, 2 minutes, 10 minutes and
60 minutes.
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It is used for the user’s manual programming.
Manu Of Pager
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If it is selected, menu of zoom function will be disabled.
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If it is selected, menu of scroll is disabled.
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If it is selected, menu of set time is disabled.