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Hi!

Can anyone tell me the difference between a "Pageboy II" and an "Metro Pageboy II"?



Thanks in advance!
Joachim

Pageboy II was a 2-tone pager

Metro Pageboy was a different format. Not sure if it was 5-tone, or a digital format. but was a higher capacity format for this time when everyone in a large city had a pager and more cap codes were needed.

Hi RFguy,

thanks for your quick reply. The Pageboy II was also capable of 5-tone decoding, which was used all over germany for example.

But you may be right anyway, that it used a different coding type. The manual says "decimal digital", what is also known as "Motorola EIA". It is similar to 5-tone, but faster and has a slightly different format.

In addition to the small housing shown on the manual, there is an extended version which i guess is also a Metro Pageboy. It has a seven digit display showing the called capcode (or what else?).

Attached some pictures of one of those i own. Does anyone have some more information about this extended version? As far as i found out, there is only one codeplug. But then it is not clear anymore, which information is shown on the display....






Thanks in advance!
Joachim

The Metro was what Motorola called "Decimal Digital" which was actually a 5/6 tone format.