Eexactly how does the pager on any given cordless telephone work?

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 30 Jun 2004 16:37 PDT

Greetings, Brandi!

Are you referring to 
  cordless telephones
or
  mobile telephones / cell phones?

When you say "pager" do you mean
    the locator button on the main cordless telephone unit
    that causes a handset to beep when the handset is missing,
or
    paging someone on a cell phone which has a pager capability
or
    something else?

Clarification of these items would help Researchers greatly in assisting you.

Regards,

aceresearcher

If you are talking about a cordless phone (not a cell phone), then the
pager function is pretty simple.

When you press the "page" button, you transmit a signal from the base
station to the cordless handset.

The cordless handset picks up the signal via its antenna, processes it
through its onboard logic (circuitry), and does whatever that signal
tells it to do.  In the case of the page signal, the phone "beeps".

Same thing happens when your phone rings -- the base station receives
the signal from the phone company which tells it to start ringing.  It
transmits this signal via RF to the handset.  The handset receives the
signal and begins to ring.

Note the newer handsets do not receive the "ring" itself -- they only
receive a signal from the base which tells them to ring/beep/etc...

The circuitry inside the handset takes care of the rest.