Motorola Essential Features of MICOM Home Security Systems

New ALE Features

•A receiving station will accept a wildcard character as a substitute for the alphanumeric character in its own address that occupies the same position. This means that the wildcard character is a substitute for any of 36 characters and digits (A to Z, 0 to 9) in the Basic 38 character subset.

•Multiple wildcard characters can be used in different positions of the same address (basic or extended).

See Table 2 for examples of patterns using the “?” wildcard symbol.

	Table 2. Use of “?” Wildcard Symbol
Pattern	Interpretation
A B C	“Standard” 3-character address, shown here for reference. All the characters in
	this word must be evaluated
A B ?	“Standard” “wild-1” address word. Indicates that only the positions occupied by
A ? C	other characters (“A” and “B”) need be evaluated: the position occupied by the
? B C	“?” symbol can be ignored (ignored in this context means that any valid character
	is accepted)
A ? ?	“Standard” “wild-2” address word. Indicates that only the position occupied by an
? B ?	character (“A”, “B” or “C”) need be evaluated: the positions occupied by the “?”
? ? C	symbols can be ignored
? ? ?	“Standard” “wild-3” address word. Indicates that all of the three positions in this
	word can be ignored
A B @	“Stuff-1” reduced address field, shown here for reference. Only the first two
	characters in this word must be evaluated
A ? @	“Wild-1” “stuff-1” address. Only the character “A” or “B” in this word must be
? B @	evaluated
? ? @	“Wild-2” “stuff-2” address. Only the character “A” or “B” in this word must be
	evaluated
A @ @	“Stuff-2” reduced address field, shown here for reference. Only the first character
	in this word must be evaluated
? @ @	“Wild-1” “stuff-2” address. Only the first character in this word must be
	evaluated, and is ignored
@ A B	“Double selective AnyCall” address word, shown here for reference: only the last
	two characters in this word must be evaluated
@ A ?	“Double selective AnyCall” “wild-1” address word: only the middle character
	“A” in this word must be evaluated
@ ? B	Not permitted. Use “selective AnyCall”
@ ? ?	Not permitted. Use “global AnyCall”

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