Four letter message do not arrive.

[petterreinholdtsen]

I tried sending a three letter message ('Hei.'), and my pager failed to discover it. Is there something wrong with the handling of short messages? Can others receive short messages?

[vanhoteen]

my only 11 caracters

[unsynchronized]

Hmm, I just successfully sent a bunch of four-letter messages (including that one) to a 512-baud Motorola Advisor.

Can I get more details about the device you're sending to? (model/band/baud) Are you able to reliably send 3- and 5- character messages, but not 4-character ones?

I wouldn't rule out a bug or device-compatibility issue in the code that maps ASCII/Unicode to POCSAG bits -- that code is.. not the best. But so far I can't replicate this one..

[esm88]

I am having similar issues. This seems to be a bug with the transmission being 'cut short'. The messages must be of a certain length (longer for higher baud rates) because the transmitter is being disabled too early. This isn't noticeable as much with longer messages and lower baud rates, but at 2400 I can clearly hear that the data is not being sent with shorter messages (only the pilot tone can be heard).