Abstract: Apparatus and methods for establishing communications with a selected wireless communication device from among one or more available communication devices are useful in managing wireless communications. For transmissions containing header information indicative of an identity of the originating device, the header information is extracted and presented to a user of a first wireless communication device in a user-selectable format. In response to a user selection of an instance of the header information, the first wireless communication device is tuned to receive and decode transmissions from the wireless communication device corresponding to the selected instance of the header information. In a like manner, the first wireless communication may further be tuned to encode and transmit information using a communication protocol of the wireless communication device corresponding to the selected instance of the header information.