no 16 thereby completing one cycle without determining an object reception channel for which searching operation should be continued the reception channel returns provisionally to channel no 1 to begin a second searching cycle thus the series of searching operations is repeated until an object reception channel is determined or until the number of searching cycles reaches a given number without determining an object reception channel it is to be noted that while it is described above that the searching order is first set so that the searching begins with channel no 1 the searching may otherwise be performed beginning with any given channel on condition that the channel no 1 follows the channel no 16 next another paging receiver of a second embodiment is described with reference to fig2 and 4 the receiver of fig2 is different in construction from the receiver of fig1 in that it includes a channel information storage section 112 the channel information storage section 112 stores together with the channel number the received electric field strength information sent from the electric field detection section 109 and the result of comparison of the received electric field strength and the predetermined reference value sent by the reception channel control section 111 the channel information storage section 112 also stores the result of comparison of the system information included in each reception channel and the system information held in the receiver consequently the reception channel.