Apollo 924

The Apollo 924 is a compact, front-panel programmable POCSAG pager manufactured in Taiwan by the Gold Apollo Co. The display is backlit and supports 4 lines of text which can be zoomed in to two lines. It is available in UHF and VHF; the most recent version supports up to 8 addresses.

Compared to the Alphapoc 602R, the build quality appears good and gives the pager a noticeably more solid/substantial feel.

The pager is powered by a single AAA battery and ships with a belt holster/clip and chain. Unfortunately, the belt holster/clip does not protect the display and the pager cannot be inserted into the holster/clip in an orientation where the display is protected from nicks and scratches.

OTA programming and/or time synchronization is not supported however the backup battery retains programming, settings, date/time, and messages during a battery change and frequency/RIC programming is retained even if the battery is removed for several weeks.

The pager features several alert tones as well as a vibrate function and also supports a clock alarm as well as an auto-sleep function to suppress alerts during a defined interval.

Front-panel programming can be accomplished by removing the battery, holding the leftmost button, and inserting the battery while keeping the button pressed for 5 seconds to allow for programming of frequency and RICs.

Programming via this method will reset other settings such as the current date/time, stored messages, zoom, and alert settings.

RIC/CAPCODEs can be enabled/disabled on an individual basis. The four characters following the RIC assign one of the following functions:

A separate programming cradle and programming software is available but has not been tested; documentation for other pagers from the same manufacturer describes additional features/settings that can be enabled via software such as an out-of-range indicator and the assignment of RICs to personal/mailbox/group category with each category having its own alert method.