GAI-Tronics MRTI 2000 (No. PL1877A) Microprocessor Radio Telephone Interconnect Installation & Service Manual - Manual (Page 65)

PL1877A Microprocessor Radio Telephone Interconnect PC Programming
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Miscellaneous Information about Wildcard Access/Release Feature
Capcode and Normal Wildcard Codes
When the PL1877A is not paging a mobile, any capcode wildcards in the wildcard code are treated as
normal wildcard digits.
For example, suppose the PL1877A is programmed with a wildcard code of *l#*#. Mobile access has
been restricted to multi-digit access prefixes, and all standard multi-digit access prefixes have been
disabled.
Here, the mobile is always required to access the PL1877A with a wildcard prefix. To answer a page,
mobile users must substitute their user ID digits into the capcode wildcard positions. However, to
originate a call to a telephone user, the mobile user treats the capcode wildcards as normal wildcard
digits. Instead of substituting their user ID digits into the capcode wildcard position, the mobile user can
substitute any digits for those locations.
Use of the Right-Most Digit
If the wildcard code contains fewer capcode wildcards than there are digits in the capcode, only the right-
most digits of the capcode will be used in the wildcard prefix.
For example, suppose your wildcard code is *l#*# and the PL1877A is programmed for 2-tone single-
mode paging. If the PL1877A pages a user with the capcode 023, the PL1877A requires a wildcard
access code matching the pattern 21x3x. Notice that only the right-most digits of the capcode were
placed in the wildcard prefix.
Or, suppose the wildcard code is * 12 34, and the PL1877A is programmed for multi-mode paging. If
user ID 56 is paged, the PL1877A requires a wildcard access prefix that matches the pattern 61234.
Again, the right-most digit of the user ID was placed in the wildcard prefix.