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How do you program overhead paging

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You can interface to a trunk port or an analog station port.

A trunk port will require a trunk-level paging interface, put the trunk in its own outgoing line group, and make a short code like *88 / Dial / (nothing) / LG-(paging trunk)

You can use an Analogue Station Port, in a couple of ways. With a station level paging adapter (think: Centrex paging interface), you dial the extension number of the station port, wait for the ring and answer, then do your page.

You can set the Analogue Station Port to be a paging port, now you have an audio out to go to the input of the amplifier - however you may need to fiddle with a matching transformer, depending on the input impedance of the amplifier. Using an Analogue Station Port programmed as a Paging Port, you use a short code like *88 / Dial Paging / Extension Number of the paging port. Put the paging port into a hunt group with multiline phones, do the Dial Page to the group instead of the station port, and you've got simultaneous paging.

Thanks very much
Ken