RST Engineering wrote:

Mark ...

I mean no offense, but anecdotal evidence about painting pagers doesn't take
the place of a controlled environment test when it comes to making general
pronouncements about antennas inside of one paint or the other.

So far as I know, the paint could have leaked inside, the pager could have
crapped out from natural causes...

They also operate in all the normal bands...
VHF Low/Hi, UHF, 800/900/1200 mhz and probably more...