ALPHASENSE PRODUCT APPLICATION NOTE
                              Rev. 980220




Subject:     Use of AlphaSense with Digital Pagers


As you know, AlphaSense is not designed specifically to deliver messages to
digital display pagers. For that Compuquest makes the PAGNOW! product. Also,
pricing for Alpha Pagers keeps getting ever lower/closer to digital - within
just a few dollars a month - and Alpha offers significant benefits over 
digital-only. (Hint: get an Alpha Pager!!) However, there are instances
where customers of the AlphaSense product have expressed desire to send 
even the most rudimentary alerting to a digital pager, while retaining the
full features of the AlphaSense product for other types of message delivery.
Compuquest has reviewed this, and we can offer the following solution for
access of digital pagers by AlphaSense, 960901 release 3.0 or later:


  (To upgrade your product, call us or send email to tech support,
   and give us your name, phone, and the serial number of the unit you
   wish to upgrade. We will contact you with upgrade procedures). 


1). First, the user must call the desired digital pager from a telephone,
counting the seconds between the last digit dialed, and when they hear the
Paging System's "go-ahead" tones. Do this twice to get a reliable number.

2). Divide this number by two, and add one. The result is called "X". Now,
follow the next two steps when performing your AlphaSense programming.

3). Important: The desired input primary or secondary destination that is
to be sent to the digital pager should be set as a "DATA" type message. 

4). For the desired input, when entering the phone number, enter the digital
pager phone access number, followed by "X" "comma" characters (if "X" = 5,
you enter 5 commas), followed by whatever numeric message the user desires
to have displayed on the digital pager, and ended with the "#" character.

     EXAMPLE: If the pager access phone number is 123-4567, and the desired
     numeric message is 9876, and the user's measured value for X is 4, the
     resulting AlphaSense phone number entry would be:

                                   123-4567,,,,9876#


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When AlphaSense is used this way , the digital pager should display the desired
message. If the entire message is not seen on the pager display, the user
should try adding or deleting one comma from the phone number entry. No 
call-progress functions or error-checking operate during this type of message
callout.



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Formed in 1983, Compuquest, Inc. is a leading designer/manufacturer of 
hardware and software products for telecom, data communications, 
remote monitoring, and wireless messaging.