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KANTRONICS
KAM XL
Reference Manual
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Page 2: ...tion 18 Front panel of the KAM XL 18 Rear panel of the KAM XL 18 CONNECTING THE KAM XL TO A POWER SOURCE 19 CONNECTING THE KAM XL TO A COMPUTER 19 The Terminal Program 23 CONNECTING THE KAM XL TO TRANSCEIVERS 24 AUX PORT RS232 DTE 26 CONNECTING A GPS DEVICE 26 Interface Communication modes of the KAM XL 27 Terminal Mode 27 Kantronics Host Mode 27 KISS Mode 28 XKISS Extended KISS Mode 29 COMMUNICAT...
Page 3: ...CW 71 Tuning in CW a signal 71 Transmitting CW 72 CW Directives 73 RTTY 74 Receiving RTTY 74 Tuning RTTY signals 74 Transmitting RTTY 74 RTTY Directives 74 MARS Feature 75 ASCII 77 Receiving ASCII 77 Tuning ASCII signals 77 Transmitting ASCII 77 ASCII Directives 77 AMTOR includes LAMTOR FEC SELFEC NAVTEX 79 AMTOR Operation 79 Calling CQ 79 Answering a CQ 80 Mode B FEC Operation 81 Mode B SELFEC Op...
Page 4: ...ng Commands 98 COMMANDS 99 Appendix A Installation 181 Precautions 181 Connecting to Radios 181 Interfacing Hand Held Radios 182 Port 1 HF and Packet 183 Transmit level 184 Appendix B Advanced Information 185 Disassembly and Assembly 185 Hard Reset 185 Updating Uploading new BIOS Firmware 186 Calibration 187 PTT Push to Talk Watchdog Timer 189 Jumpers 190 Appendix C Replacing the Lithium Battery 1...
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Page 6: ...form without the written permission of the copyright owner KAM XL Pacterm K Net and G Tor are registered trademarks of Kantronics Co Inc KPC 3 Plus is a registered trademark of Kantronics Co Inc KPC 9612 Plus is a registered trademark of Kantronics Co Inc NET ROM is a registered trademark of SOFTWARE 2000 APRS is a registered trademark of Bob Bruninga WB4APR HyperTerminal is a registered trademark...
Page 7: ...f your sales receipt to register your purchase Refer to the warranty policy in this manual for further information Mail form and sales receipt to Kantronics 14830 W 117th Street Olathe KS 66062 Warranty Registration Last Name First Name Call Sign Mailing Address City State Zip Postal Code Country Telephone E Mail Product KAM XL Serial Date of Purchase Dealer ...
Page 8: ...es or damages and Kantronics proprietary rights shall survive 3 Object Code The SOFTWARE is delivered in object code only You shall not reverse compile or otherwise reverse engineer the SOFTWARE 4 Limited Warranty This product is covered by the standard Kantronics Limited Warranty which is enclosed 5 General This License Agreement constitutes the complete Agreement between you and Kantronics The S...
Page 9: ...THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU 4 DISCLAIMER This Limited Warranty is in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied and no representative or person is authorized to assume for Kantronics any other liability in connection with the sale of its products KANTRONICS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS THE IMPLIED WAR...
Page 10: ...her software used with it Responsibility for the selection of the hardware and software program to achieve your intended results rests with you 7 REMEDY PROCEDURE Should you need to make a warranty claim first contact the dealer from whom you purchased the product If the dealer is unable to assist you contact us prior to returning an Applicable Product to receive a Return Authorization Number As a...
Page 11: ...l outside these hours the phone will just ring The service department telephone is not connected to the main switchboard and the switchboard receptionist cannot transfer you to the service number If lines are busy you may wish to and it may be faster to contact service by fax or e mail Service e mail is checked twice per day Before contacting us please take the time to list out your problem fully ...
Page 12: ...lso be helpful but not required to include the code number 9801 00 1035 which tells U S Customs agents that the package contains U S goods returned without improvement enhancement However if the words U S goods returned for repair replacement are on the paperwork the number is not really necessary Provide a value for customs purposes This is usually the value of the item s in their current conditi...
Page 13: ...equipment The user is also cautioned that any peripheral device installed with this equipment must be connected with a high quality shielded cable to insure compliance with FCC limits Note 2 The shield of the cable whether foil braid braid over foil or double braid must be properly terminated connected 360 to the connector This is usually accomplished by the use of a metal or metalized plastic bac...
Page 14: ...the EMC Directive FCC Title 47 Part 15 Subpart B The test results are on file at the corporate offices of Kantronics Type of Equipment Information Technology Equipment Class of Equipment Class B CE Marking Considerations The following cautions pertain to CE Marking of this product All cables connecting to DC IN PORT 2 VHF PORT 1 HF AUX and COMPUTER must be 3 m in length The cable connecting to the...
Page 15: ...rk node compatible with NET ROM or THE NET using the Kantronics K NET node Gathering of telemetry data from multi channel analog inputs and beaconing packets containing that data Packet communication is described briefly in this chapter and covered in detail in the chapter on packet modes of operation Commands for packet mode are documented in the Commands chapter GPS compatibility A GPS or other ...
Page 16: ...the EMWIN data stream Standard TERMINAL HOST and KISS and NET ROM serial port interface modes Software control The KAM XL can be controlled with terminal communication programs including Kantronics DOS based Pacterm 2 0 which is included terminal programs included with Windows 3 1 TERMINAL and Windows 95 98 NT ME XP HYPERTERM and programs from 3rd parties written specifically for Kantronics TNCs C...
Page 17: ...ransceiver and adjust the volume of the transceiver so the KAM XL can receive transmit packet signals from to the transceiver After learning how to connect radio port 1 to a transceiver the same steps can be used to connect radio port 2 to another transceiver Package Contents Verify that the items listed below have been included The KAM XL unit Parts to use in assembling cables 2 male DSUB 9 conne...
Page 18: ...RGRAPH It will indicate when the receiver is tuned properly for decoding a received signal Starting at the left the lower row of LED functions are PORT 1 Transmit RED PORT 1 Receive GREEN Lock Connect tri color Valid STA GREEN Speed tri color Mail YELLOW PORT 2 Transmit RED PORT 2 Receive GREEN Connect GREEN STA GREEN POWER GREEN The Power switch is located near the right end of the front panel Re...
Page 19: ... that will load and run in the computer s operating system and can be configured to communicate through a serial port on that computer Note If unsure about how to determine what serial COM ports the computer has or how to make a serial port available consult the computer documentation and or computer dealer The KAM XL does not require any specific computer program and many different communicationo...
Page 20: ... serial cable the same cable that would be used to connect an external type telephone modem to the computer serial port or make a cable with the same wiring to connect the KAM XL to a serial COM port on the computer When purchasing a cable you should specify that The serial cable RS232C should be shielded with at least 5 wires connected and 3 m in length See note 2 in the RF Interference section c...
Page 21: ...ector See note 2 in the RF Interference section concerning shielded cable assemblies TXD is data from the computer to the modem RXD is data from the modem to the computer RTS is a flow control signal from computer to modem CTS is a flow control signal from modem to computer DSR is a control signal from modem to computer DCD is a control signal from modem to computer DTR is a control signal from co...
Page 22: ...ware flow control using RTS and CTS lines in the cable should work with the five wire connection in the cable as described above The computer or terminal is usually referred to as DTE data terminal equipment At this end of a serial cable TXD and RTS are output lines and RXD and CTS are input lines The modem is referred to as DCE data communication equipment At this end of the serial cable TXD and ...
Page 23: ...till come with high speed serial ports already installed In older type computers a serial port card with high speed buffered UARTS should be installed to use baud rates above 9600 baud Serial port cards with high speed buffered UARTS are available through many parts suppliers and will improve the reliability of high speed communications Request a serial port card with high speed buffered UARTS ide...
Page 24: ... CW or FM transceiver but could be used with a VHF FM transceiver In a cable between Port 1 and a radio at least four pins must be connected transmit audio receive audio PTT and ground Transmit audio output should be connected to the microphone input or transmit data input on the microphone jack of the radio Receive audio input should be connected to the external speaker output or receive data out...
Page 25: ... you can 7 Place the drain wire in the gap where you can not get foil coverage 8 Now place the metalized plastic shell halves together over the connector and cable When you screw the two halves together there should be enough compression to hold the cable in place and there should be solid contact between the metal side of the foil and the metalized back shell KAM XL Radio Port 2 Will usually be c...
Page 26: ...d rate greater than zero the AUX port acts as input for NMEA type data from a GPS receiver or other device If the command NBAUD is set to a baud rate greater than zero the AUX port is used to interconnect with other TNCs in NET ROM mode at the specified baud rate CONNECTING A GPS DEVICE To capture data from a GPS device connect its DATA output to the AUX port on the back of the KAM XL If the GPS r...
Page 27: ...commands and functions in Host mode Host mode uses Hardware flow control only and requires that the serial cable that connects the KAM XL to the computer include the RTS and CTS lines as well as TXD RXD and signal ground Exiting Host mode If a Host mode program has been used to operate the KAM XL it may leave the KAM in Host mode when it exits If a standard terminal program is then used set to the...
Page 28: ...asynchronous data to be passed to the computer over the serial port and converts the packets of asynchronous data from the computer into the synchronous format suitable for radio transmission The TNC retains the responsibility of determining proper timing for channel access To place the KAM XL in KISS Mode at the command prompt cmd type INTFACE KISS and press return Then send a RESET command or cy...
Page 29: ...otocol pp 38 42 6th Computer Networking Conference Newington CT ARRL 1987 XKISS Extended KISS Mode The KAM XL also supports the G8BPQ multi drop KISS Mode called extended KISS XKISS With this mode the TNC can be connected to a G8BPQ node along with other TNCs on the same serial port to provide multiple radio ports to the node Otherwise XKISS works the same as KISS For information on this mode of o...
Page 30: ...There are two ways to send data in packet radio connected or unproto unconnected In the Connected Mode a connection is established to another station Packets are sent to that specific station and acknowledgments are expected in return that the packets were received correctly If an acknowledgment is not received the TNC will re send the data depending on the setting of AX25L2V2 it may send a poll f...
Page 31: ...he Convers Mode or the communication mode defined by the settings of the NOMODE and CONMODE commands Two commands determine when entered data will be packetized and transmitted The command SENDPAC defines the key or character that causes a packet to be transmitted Its default setting is the ENTER or RETURN key Whenever that key is pressed a new packet will be transmitted A second command called PA...
Page 32: ...ation that needs to send a packet to another station it can not hear direct would address that packet VIA a digi stations callsign or alias Up to 8 digis can be used to relay packets to reach a desired station To connect to another station VIA a digipeater a command would be entered such as CONNECT KCØKON VIA LRNCE Or if several digis are required CONNECT KCØKON VIA LRNCE LVN KCI To send unconnect...
Page 33: ...ctive and the current I O stream and buffer status To change streams to make another connect or to direct data to another connected station on a different stream type the STREAMSW character the number of the port if different than the current I O port and the letter designation of the desired stream No return or enter key is necessary The setting of STREAMEV will then determine how often the strea...
Page 34: ...generates a random number between 0 and 255 inclusive If in this example the number was 83 then the TNC would not start the key up of the transmitter since 83 is greater than the 63 PERSIST value Instead it would wait an additional 100 ms and if the channel is still clear generate a new random number This time let s say it comes up with the number 27 Since this is less than the PERSIST value the k...
Page 35: ...r sending files whether ASCII data files or program files Special characters other than TRFLOW and TXFLOW when ON have no meaning to the TNC in transparent mode they are just characters to be put in a packet and sent to the radio In Transparent Mode the PACTIME command defines when packets are transmitted There is no MONITOR function while in TRANSPARENT mode Only data from a connected station can...
Page 36: ...XL It will respond to the connect request with three lines of six numbers per line Pick one of the lines and enter the characters at the positions indicated in the line as entered in RTEXT As a simple example enter the command RTEXT aBcD Since there are only 4 characters in the line the numbers returned in the three lines of six numbers in response to a connect request to the MYREMOTE will only be...
Page 37: ...e same message handling functions as a computer based packet radio full service BBS including the forwarding of Bulletins Private mail and NTS traffic for more information on the national network of full service PC based packet BBS systems see a current ARRL operations manual The personal mailbox is compatible with the large community bulletin board systems RLI MBL etc and will allow them to forwa...
Page 38: ...ult in a similar prompt sequence At this point the PBBS is ready to display messages accept messages to other users allow editing of messages already entered display help information etc Entering Messages To enter a message addressed specifically to another user who can connect to the PBBS and read the message later use the Send Private command SP KBØNYK and the TNC responds with SUBJECT enter a s...
Page 39: ...will include a date and time stamp indicating when each station was heard J heard S hort Displays only the callsigns of stations heard J heard L ong Displays the callsigns of stations heard and any digipeaters used and the destination callsign L ist x y Lists all messages in the mailbox allowed to be read This will include all BULLETIN and TRAFFIC messages and any PRIVATE messages addressed TO the...
Page 40: ...y only delete TRAFFIC messages PRIVATE messages addressed TO or FROM you or BULLETINS you sent The SYSOP may delete any message including BULLETINS KM ine Deletes any messages marked as READ addressed to the current user Messages marked as NOT READ will not be deleted R ead n Reads a specific message by number Only PRIVATE messages addressed TO or sent from the current user and any BULLETIN or TRA...
Page 41: ... of the message For TRAFFIC this should be NTSxx where xx is the two letter POSTAL code for the state mid is the MESSAGE ID assigned to the message by the originator bid is the BULLETIN ID assigned to the message by the originator zip is the 5 digit postal zip code or postal code cat is the message category For instance a message requesting help on a subject may be sent to the category HELP info s...
Page 42: ...nt status of the message A Bulletin status type B can be F it has already been forwarded to another full service BBS H it is being held for review by the SYSOP because it was entered into the PBBS over the radio An NTS traffic message type T may have a status of H indicating that it is being held for review by the SYSOP before it may be forwarded The Private message type P can have the following s...
Page 43: ... from tocall fromcall The destination mailbox BBS BBS haddr And the subject or text of the message In the message replace the FIRST occurrence of the string old with the string new When a message is listed the tocall and fromcall appear in the TO and FROM columns respectively If a message has been entered with an BBS for forwarding the complete hierarchical address is shown when the message is rea...
Page 44: ...cal address of the PBBS must be entered in the HTEXT command which is required for complete return addressing capability in forwarded messages Hierarchical Addresses Hierarchical addresses are used to accommodate the national packet traffic system including messages processed by PC based packet radio BBSs The HTEXT command sets the Hierarchical address of the TNCs PBBS This is used whenever the PB...
Page 45: ...f the TNC is not available at this time and the mailbox will answer instead A custom greeting message as specified by the PTEXT command can be included in the sign on of the PBBS and sent to users connecting to the PBBS The PTEXT message can contain a text string of up to 128 characters The TNC owner can send the DISCONNECT MYPBBS command that will cause the PBBS to immediately disconnect from a c...
Page 46: ...callsign Routing Lines Under current FCC requirements BBS systems that can store and forward messages without an operator being present must have the capability to provide a record of the path the message has taken from its origination To accomplish this BBSs include a routing line beginning with R This R line includes the date and time the message was received message number BBS callsign and hier...
Page 47: ... NDWILD KNTIMER and KNXCON The command NUMNODES when set to a number greater than zero enables the KA Node The number sets the number of circuits channels allowed through the KA Node Each circuit consists of a connect IN from a station to the node and a connect OUT from the node to another station Each KA Node circuit allowed will require approximately 4 3K of memory If an attempt is made to set N...
Page 48: ...t will include dates and times the packets from those stations were heard the destination callsigns in the packets they sent and any digipeaters used The format of the date and times in the list will be as specified by the TNCs DAYSTRING command The command N is for NODES heard When the TNC hears ID packets from other stations that include a callsign with a N that callsign is included in the Nodes...
Page 49: ...aracters are optional Those items listed within are optional and if used the UPPER LOWER case convention applies ABORT Aborts a KA Node Connect or Xconnect request if it is the first data sent after the connect request It must be spelled out entirely Bye Causes the KA Node to initiate a disconnect Connect callsign Stay Causes the node to issue a connect request to callsign in the usual AX 25 mode ...
Page 50: ...used Nodes Short Long Causes the node to return a list of KA Nodes it has heard as well as K Net G8BPQ NET ROM and TheNet nodes The format of the list is similar to that of the JHEARD list above Xconnect callsign Causes the node to issue a connect request to the specified callsign on the opposite port of the KA Node ...
Page 51: ...ariants differ in their features they all utilize the same basic networking protocol The K Net feature adds the function of a dual port network node to the operation of the KAM XL All normal functions of the KAM XL can remain active including PBBS operation dual port packet operations and remote access This means that the KAM XL can still be used in normal operation while also providing the local ...
Page 52: ...nformation about the K Net node First connect to the node as sysop and enter each command CTEXT INFO or PORTS followed by text messages CTEXT for connect text is sent when a station connects to the network node It may be a greeting message followed by short instructions about how to get more help about the node operation INFO or node information could be a message indicating the location of the no...
Page 53: ...et station after gaining sysop access by entering the SYSOP command and entering the correct password characters as set in the RTEXT command ADDNODE alias call port neighbor VIA digi1 digi2 quality obscent Adds the specified new destination node or modifies the entry of an existing destination node in the nodes table If the optional obscent Obsolescense Count is set to 0 zero the node will be perm...
Page 54: ...y generated by the K Net node is different such as may occur during band openings CQBC ON OFF ON OFF Default ON ON When set to ON for either or both radio ports allows users to send CQ broadcasts from the node CTEXT text up to 128 characters The connect message text sent to stations upon connecting to the NETALIAS callsign but not when connecting to the NETCALL Can be cleared by entering CTEXT DEL...
Page 55: ...packet of the ACK and any data that may be ready to be sent to the same destination to be sent together Thus sending only one frame instead of two or more L4LIMIT n n 0 65 535 Default 900 Sets a no activity timeout timer in number of seconds on a node crosslink When a user connects to another node the node first establishes a level 2 AX 25 connect with that node and then establishes a level 4 circ...
Page 56: ...equired to add a destination node to the nodes table NODESINT n n 0 255 Default 60 Sets the time interval in number of minutes between node broadcasts It should be set to an agreed on interval the same as all nodes in the network system OBSINIT n n 0 255 Default 5 Sets the initial obsolescence value that is assigned to destination nodes When a nodes broadcast is transmitted the obsolescence value ...
Page 57: ...e PBBS CONNECT port call alias S Commands the node to connect to another node or enduser When the S option is included will remain connected to the node after disconnecting the current link CQ UI text Commands the node to broadcast the specified text DISPLAY Displays a list of current node parameter settings HELP When entered alone displays a list of all commands available to the connected user Wh...
Page 58: ...ch node If the optional is included with the command hidden nodes are also shown and are marked with Entering the command and specifying a node alias or callsign will display up to three possible routes neighbor nodes of descending quality that will be used to establish a link with a specified destination PORTS Displays test messages about the radio ports that were entered by the sysop ROUTES Disp...
Page 59: ...to a baud rate matching the serial port baud of the other TNC activates the Net rom interface mode When connecting to just one other TNC a standard serial cable is all that is needed When connecting to a node stack a diode matrix is required NOTE NBAUD and GPSPORT cannot be enabled at the same time The AUX port of the KAM XL can be used for only one function at a time Attempts to enable both funct...
Page 60: ...tude longitude and time on an LCD screen but that information can be output through an RS232 or compatible port This port can then be connected to the serial port of a computer or TNC The GPS position information is presented in a special format of sentences of ASCII characters as specified by a protocol called NMEA 0183 A number of these sentences are available with varying kinds of information b...
Page 61: ...L AUX port This wire may be identified as NMEA by some GPS vendors Connect the data output of the GPS data port to pin 2 of the TNC serial port The data output pin may be identified as NMEA by some GPS vendors This line supplies the GPS NMEA sentences to the TNC Some GPS units may have a data input to allow for configuring their data output If so this is accomplished by passing commands to the GPS...
Page 62: ...o it so that the LTRACK buffer can be accessed If the GPSHEAD string for any LT buffer is empty that LT buffer can be set up as an auxiliary beacon manually entering text in the that buffer and setting BLT and LTP to beacon that text at the specified interval via the designated path GPS Device Initialization from the TNC Some GPS receivers require input of a special string of characters for initia...
Page 63: ... changed including the GPS parameters If the GPSPORT command has been enabled by setting it to a baud rate greater than 0 zero text can sent out through the AUX port at its configured baud rate by sending the RPRINT command For example to send the configuration string PGRMO GPGSA 1 to a GPS unit that is connected to the AUX port enter the command RPRINT PGRMO GPGSA 1 This requires that the DATA in...
Page 64: ...ich GPS NMEA sentences will be stored in the LT buffers GPSINIT string up to 128 characters Specifies a text string that will be sent to the attached GPS unit upon power up LT n text n 1 4 up to 128 chars Enters the specified text in the associated LT buffer LTP n dest via call1 call2 dest via call1 call2 n 1 4 Sets the destination callsign and any digipeaters to be used when transmitting the LT b...
Page 65: ...igipeating path as it moves around since there will presumably always be nearby GPS APRS digipeating stations with one or more of these generic names to pick up transmissions of UI packets and re transmit them to a wider area or on a different radio channel Using generically named digipeaters does result in wider coverage of GPS stations but several inefficiencies may arise from this common practi...
Page 66: ...et grows by one digipeated address with each hop The current setting of UIDWAIT determines whether or not a delay is added to UI digipeat packets those formed by UIDIGI UIFLOOD or UITRACE before transmission once the channel is clear If UIDWAIT is ON the delay is determined by SLOTTIME and PERSIST settings The purpose of the UIGATE which is in multi port devices only is to prevent heavy high speed...
Page 67: ...ceedings 1994 Technical Information Collins J et al GPS Theory and Practice Second Edition Springer Verlag 1993 Etherington Michael FM subcarrier network extends differential GPS nationwide Mobile Radio Technology February 1994 Kaplan Elliot The global positioning system GPS Communications Quarterly Summer 1994 Langley R The mathematics of GPS GPS World Magazine July August 1991 NMEA 0183 ASCII In...
Page 68: ...V dc the signals should be attenuated to divide them down in voltage Choose resistance values to scale the desired input voltages to a maximum of 3 3 V dc at the microprocessor pin External voltages should never be allowed to exceed 50 V dc Remote Control Six control output lines are also available They are open drain FET transistor switches and are controlled by the command CTRL The TELEMETRY POR...
Page 69: ... LINK is one such specialized program which is used in the computer of a DAMA master along with one TNC with a special EPROM for each radio frequency used on the sys tem RMNC FlexNet software is another program which is very popular in Germany Within each Local Area Network LAN end users set themselves up as DAMA slaves using specially equipped TNCs which contain firmware EPROM that can operate in...
Page 70: ...ing Conference American Radio Relay League Newington CT USA 06111 Medcalf Karl WK5M DAMA Another Network Solution Proceedings of the 14th Computer Networking Conference American Radio Relay League Newington CT USA 06111 Rech Wolf Henning N1EOW DF9IC and Kneip Johannes DG3RBU The German Central European Packet Radio Network An Overview Proceedings of the 11th Computer Networking Conference American...
Page 71: ...de ready to receive Morse code at the speed specified by the CWSPEED command To enter CW mode at a speed other than as specified by CWSPEED enter the command CW and the desired speed A message indicating the current CW speed will be displayed 20 20 and the KAM XL will be ready to receive and decode CW signals at the indicated WPM rate Receiving CW If the speed of the CW signal being received from ...
Page 72: ... operation to transmit when activating the key If a connection has also been made from the HF port to the microphone jack on the radio the PTT signal can be used to put the radio into transmit mode Set the command CWOUTPUT to KEY PTT When configured this way the PTT will go to active state when the KAM XL is transmitting and the CW KEY line will send CW It is also possible to generate audio tone C...
Page 73: ...he Transmit LED on the front panel of the KAM XL will not light when transmitting in CW and the PTT line will not be activated CW Directives While in CW mode several command functions are active and cause these actions as indicated Ctrl C E Return to receive mode when transmit buffer is empty Ctrl C L Lock transmit and receive speed to current receive speed Ctrl C R Return to receive mode immediat...
Page 74: ...frequency so that the tuning bargraph on the KAM XL lights brightest at both ends If the received signal is RTTY but is displayed as garbled characters the signal may be inverted space mark instead of mark space If this is the case send the directive Ctrl C I to invert the demodulator in the KAM XL or set the receiver to the opposite sideband and retune it to receive the signal again Note IF the c...
Page 75: ...IGS JJJJJSSSSS LTRS over the radio This is an attention signal B Upon transmitting with Ctrl C T 5 SPACES followed by CR CR LF are transmitted before any other data C Typing Ctrl P will signify a page break in a long message by transmitting CR CR LF LF LF LF D Typing Ctrl Z will transmit the end of message signal CR CR LF LF LF LF NNNN and 12 LTRS shift characters To fully comply with the MARS RTT...
Page 76: ...76 To display exactly what is received from the other station set CRSUP OFF and LFSUP OFF so that the KAM XL does not suppress any of the received carriage return or line feed characters ...
Page 77: ...ified SHIFT value Tuning ASCII signals When tuning in an ASCII signal adjust the receivers operating frequency so that the tuning bargraph on the KAM XL lights brightest at both ends If the received signal is ASCII but is displayed as garbled characters the signal may be inverted space mark instead of mark space If this is the case send the directive Ctrl C I to invert the demodulator in the KAM X...
Page 78: ...ode immediately If the transmit buffer isn t empty the remaining data will stay in the buffer Ctrl C T Enter transmit mode Ctrl C X Exit ASCII discard any data in the transmit buffer and return to Command mode Ctrl C n Change operating speed n baud rate Entering a zero selects the default baud as specified in ASCBAUD n speed baud 1 45 2 50 3 57 4 75 5 100 6 110 7 150 8 200 9 300 0 ASCBAUD ...
Page 79: ...tions Since there is no back and forth transmission between stations as in AMTOR mode A the switching speed of the radio is not significant A subset of FEC is called SELFEC Selective FEC In this mode the display of received messages can be limited to only those beginning with the callsign or name as specified in the MYSELCAL and MYGROUP commands LAMTOR mode is listen only AMTOR In this mode data f...
Page 80: ...is is equivalent to hanging up a phone at the end of a conversation To break the link from the KAM XL type the directive Ctrl C D The AMTOR shutdown sequence will then be sent to the other station both stations will stop transmitting and a CWID will be transmitted if the command ARQID is set to a number greater than 0 zero Common practice among operators is that the ISS station sends a short messa...
Page 81: ...SELCAL based on that callsign was automatically calculated and stored See the MYSELCAL command for details Transmitting Mode B SELFEC To transmit a Mode B SELFEC broadcast type FEC followed by the SELCAL of the desired receiving station and press return The KAM XL keys the radio the bargraph goes dark and the red transmit LED lights The entered SELCAL will be sent as the preamble to the transmissi...
Page 82: ...de several command directives are active and cause these actions as indicated Ctrl C A Abort link Ctrl C D Break link and remain in AMTOR Standby Ctrl C E Return to receive mode when transmit buffer is empty Ctrl C I Invert received MARK SPACE signals and invert transmitted MARK SPACE if using AFSK SSB Ctrl C R Return to receive mode immediately in FEC transmit If the transmit buffer isn t empty t...
Page 83: ... the identifier is coming next The components of the identifier as defined in the NAVTEX documentation are B1 B2 B3 B4 B1 is used to identify the station that is transmitting and consists of the letters A through Z B2 indicates the messages class A through Z Note that class A B and D messages must always be printed once B3 and B4 are the sequence numbers for the message and will have values from 0...
Page 84: ...C CRRL issued bulletins Canadian I IARU issued bulletins J JARL issued bulletins S AMSAT issued bulletins X Miscellaneous The currently assigned message classes are as follows A Emergency bulletins B Priority bulletins D Reserved E DX bulletins G General bulletins K Keplarian bulletins P Propagation forecasts S Satellite bulletins X Miscellaneous bulletins NAVTEX AMTEX Operation As in the LAMTOR m...
Page 85: ... will clear the buffer which stores message sequence numbers that have been received allowing all messages to be received again If the Navtex mode is used infrequently it is advisable to clear the numbers since the transmitting station may have already wrapped sequence numbers back around to those that have been received before To exit the NAVTEX mode and return to the command prompt type Ctrl C X...
Page 86: ...Pactor FEC Entering the command PACTOR enters the Pactor Standby mode and displays the message PACTOR STANDBY NOTE Since the MONITOR command is ON by default Pactor FEC or ARQ transmissions from other stations can be monitored and displayed Calling CQ or Transmitting FEC To call CQ start from the Pactor Standby mode as in the directions above To begin transmitting type Ctrl C T The transmitter wil...
Page 87: ...he callsign of the station with an exclamation point e g PACTOR KBØNYK PTLISTEN Mode Enter the PLISTEN command to enter PACTOR monitor only mode It allows reception of PACTOR FEC or ARQ Pactor signals but will not allow transmitting and no response will be sent to any Pactor link requests To exit and return to command mode type Ctrl C X Pactor Directives While in Pactor mode several command direct...
Page 88: ...MTOR FEC for its broadcasts from G TOR Standby such as when calling CQ If the MONITOR command is ON when entering the G TOR mode AMTOR FEC transmissions can be monitored The G TOR mode uses the MARK and SPACE tones The default values for them are MARK 2125 and SPACE 2295 They can be changed to make better use of filtering and or IF shift tuning in the radio Entering the command GTOR enters the GTO...
Page 89: ... finished and ready to receive from the other station type Ctrl C E A change over request will be sent to the other station allowing them to become the ISS station so that messages they send can be received and displayed When the conversation with the other has been completed one of the two stations must break the link or disconnect To disconnect type Ctrl C D It can be entered when you are either...
Page 90: ...KAM XL they must be passed as data by preceding them with Ctrl V in order to transmit them Hints for G TOR Operation When choosing to use the FSK mode of a transceiver the FSK output from the KAM XL must be connected to the FSK input of the transmitter The actual tones transmitted are controlled by radio in this mode and the MARK and SPACE commands in the KAM XL must be set to match the tones rece...
Page 91: ...tions programs support this feature Procomm Plus for instance sends a modem break when entering Alt B If your communications program does not support the modem break you will not be able to leave the data transparency mode The KAM XL will automatically exit data transparency if the other station breaks the link or anytime the linked state is exited due to errors or too many retries Summary of GTOR...
Page 92: ...92 Ctrl C 2 Force 200 baud operation IRS only Ctrl C 3 Force 300 baud operation IRS only Ctrl C Ctrl T Toggle TRACE mode ON OFF MODEM BREAK Exit data transparency mode ...
Page 93: ...d by about half after each zoom in If that signal is centered enter Ctrl C 6 to zoom in closer to that signal Received PSK31 signals can also be tuned in by manually adjusting the receiver Since PSK31 is a very narrow signal a fine tuning rate on the receiver and a steady hand is very helpful A PSK squelch control is activated by the Ctrl C and or keys Increase the squelch level with Ctrl C or dec...
Page 94: ...trl C 2 Ctrl C 3 Ctrl C 4 Ctrl C 5 Ctrl C 7 Ctrl C 8 Ctrl C 9 Ctrl C 0 Tuning BARGRAPH LED positions to zoom in to when tuning individual signals Ctrl C 6 Zoom IN when the desired signal is near the center of the tuning bargraph Ctrl C X Exit and return to Command mode packet Any data left in the transmit buffer at this time is thrown away Ctrl C Z Zoom OUT to show a larger frequency bandwidth in ...
Page 95: ... XL commands are listed alphabetically below A bullet in front of the name of a command indicates that the command is a NEWUSER Command it will be available for use when the KAM XL is set to NEWUSER Mode The KAM XL ships with NEWUSER as the default INTFACE mode Also the KAM XL will be in NEWUSER mode after a hard reset Format Defining Commands The Command Definition Line The first line of each com...
Page 96: ...ut not the other use the slash after the port parameter e g OFF to set port 1 to OFF without changing port 2 or before the port parameter e g OFF to set port 2 to OFF without changing port 1 To change both ports to the same parameter value omit the slash and enter the new value just once e g OFF sets both ports to OFF The Line Below the Command Definition If commands have parameters default values...
Page 97: ...ecial character is defined as then you will need to enter values in decimal or precede the with the PASS character in order to enter hex numbers flags ChoiceA ChoiceB Many parameters are flags meaning they have two possible values ON and OFF or YES and NO All of the command descriptions show ON and OFF as the options however YES Y and NO N may be typed instead A few parameters are really flags but...
Page 98: ...in Transparent Mode If you are in Command Mode typing a Return will generate the cmd prompt If you are in Transparent Mode you will not get the cmd prompt when you press the Return key instead you need to enter three Ctrl C s in rapid succession to switch to the Command Mode and get the cmd prompt When you are at the Command Mode prompt you enter a command for the KAM XL by typing the command name...
Page 99: ...ill run upon power up This routine looks for an asterisk character from the attached computer to set the ABAUD parameter When the asterisk is received from the computer or terminal ABAUD will be set to match the baud rate of the terminal When ABAUD is changed from one baud rate to another a SOFT reset is required to enable the new setting This is done either by sending a RESET command or powering ...
Page 100: ...UTOSTRT CANLINE CWID FEC FREEQUAL LAMTOR MISSCHAR MYGROUPS MYSELCAL PMODE REPHASE TXDTOR TXDFEC and the AMTOR and HF E MAIL sections of the OPERATING MODES chapter ANALOG The response to the ANALOG command is in the following form AN0 AN1 AN2 AN3 AN4 AN5 AN6 AN7 Displays a decimal number as specified in the command RANGE for each of eight analog inputs to the TELEMETRY port The 0 255 decimal value...
Page 101: ...or an automatic CW ID when operating AMTOR G TOR or PACTOR ARQ modes The CW ID contains the text as set in the CWIDTEXT command and is transmitted at the speed set by the CWSPEED command Setting ARQID to 0 disables the automatic ID See also ARQBBS CWID and CWIDTEXT CWSPEED ARQTIME n n 1 10 Default 2 Sets the timeout interval when attempting to link to another station in AMTOR ARQ mode The interval...
Page 102: ... automatically inserted after n characters are transmitted in the RTTY ASCII AMTOR G TOR or PACTOR modes Setting AUTOCR to 0 disables automatic carriage returns AUTOLF ON OFF Default ON When set to ON a line feed is added after each carriage return in data sent to the terminal When set to OFF line feed characters will not be added If the terminal does not automatically advance to a new line after ...
Page 103: ...er units which do not digipeat version 2 packets Set this command OFF when using several digipeaters not nodes to send packets or when conditions are marginal between the two stations involved NOTE Changing this setting after connecting to another station will have no effect on the current connection The major difference in V1 and V2 protocol is the method used to handle retries In the connected m...
Page 104: ...cified by the AXDELAY command If a packet has been heard within the AXHANG period indicating that the repeater is still transmitting it will not add the AXDELAY to the key up time of its response packet Each n increment specifies 10 ms of delay See also AXDELAY BARGRAPH ON OFF RCV Default RCV When set to ON the tuning bargraph is active during receive and transmit When set to OFF the tuning bargra...
Page 105: ...ansmit beacons while the channel is busy with normal packet communications A value of 0 turns the beacon OFF See also BTEXT UNPROTO BITS n n 00 FF Default 00 Specifies the bits to be inverted when receiving a 5 bit RTTY or 8 bit ASCII signal This may enable correct decoding of RTTY or ASCII signals that have some bits inverted For example setting BITS F0 bit pattern 1111000 would invert the first ...
Page 106: ...g to the BLT interval specified If the current time is past the specified START time the beacon will start at the next scheduled interval When the keyword AFTER is used the beacon will be transmitted once after no activity is detected on the channel for hh mm ss time The optional START parameter is not allowed when AFTER is used If the associated buffer number is empty no beacon will be made for t...
Page 107: ... list of from 1 to 10 callsigns will replace whatever list was there before Single callsigns can be added to or removed from the list with the appropriate command entry BUDLIST callsign or BUDLIST callsign A callsign entered without a SSID will match any SSID of that callsign To match a specific SSID only enter the callsign with that SSID for example callsign n where n 0 15 More selective monitori...
Page 108: ... keyboard back to the last un PASSed carriage return unless in Convers Mode with CPACTIME turned ON and PACTIME has expired or PACLEN has been reached When in TRANSPARENT mode the CANLINE character is transmitted as data See also CANPAC CPACTIME PACLEN PASS SENDPAC and TRANS CANPAC n n 00 FF Default 19 Ctrl Y Sets the character used to cancel the last untransmitted packet When in the Convers Mode ...
Page 109: ...tever reason When using Version 1 AX25L2V2 OFF a CHECK timeout will initiate an immediate disconnect See also AX25L2V2 KNTIMER RELINK RNRTIME and TRIES CMDTIME n n 0 15 s Default 1 Sets the guard time for entry of the required characters as defined in COMMAND to exit Transparent interface mode and binary transfer in G TOR mode and return to command mode If CMDTIME is set to zero the only way to ex...
Page 110: ...es a complete upper lower case character set and APLINK uses the full printable character set developed by G3PLX and W5SMM currently used on APLINK BBS systems When set to MARS special characters can be used as required by the Military Affiliate Radio System See the MARS Feature section of this manual COMMAND n n 00 FF Default 03 Ctrl C Defines the Command Mode entry character When in converse mod...
Page 111: ...th the CONLIST command and callsign When ON and a callsign or list of callsigns has been entered the TNC will recognize only those packets received with a callsign that appears in the list and connections to any callsign that is not in the list will not be allowed When OFF the TNC will process all packets To remove all items from the current list enter CONLIST NONE CONMODE CONVERS TRANS Default CO...
Page 112: ...d Mode and the current stream will be used If a connect is in progress or already established the connect path may be changed by simply re issuing the CONNECT command with the new path This must be done on the same stream as the original connect CAUTION packets en route between your station and the reconnected station may be lost Entering the CONNECT command alone will display the status of the cu...
Page 113: ...n exists on the current stream characters can be sent to that station If the current stream is not connected typed characters are transmitted in an unconnected information packet Hint K is the same as CONVERS for quicker entry To return to command mode enter the COMMAND character CTRL C See also K COMMAND CPACTIME ON OFF Default OFF Determines when a packet is transmitted in CONVERS mode When set ...
Page 114: ...o be transmitted When OFF no extra carriage returns are added to transmitted data See also LFADD CRSUP ON OFF Default OFF When ON every other carriage return in received data is suppressed when no data is between them before sending the data to the terminal When OFF all carriage return characters are left in the received data as it is sent to the terminal When mechanical teleprinter machines were ...
Page 115: ...e can be used to mute voice repeater outputs This parameter is saved in battery backed RAM When MUTE is specified the output control line will be a filtered version of the RCV led with about a 10 m ms attack time If the RCV led is active for m consecutive samples at 10 ms intervals the CTRL line will activate if the RCV led is off at any sample the CTRL line will open These are open drain outputs ...
Page 116: ...ng the text characters defined in the CWIDTEXT command Setting a value greater than 0 activates the CWID under the conditions specified Each increment specifies a 1 min interval If the optional keyword EVERY is used a CWID will be transmitted every n minutes If the optional keyword AFTER is used a CWID will be transmitted ONCE after the specified interval with no channel activity Setting a value o...
Page 117: ...e in the CW mode is unaffected CWSPEED n n 5 99 WPM Default 20 WPM Sets the CW speed in CW mode and during a CWID If set to a value less than CWFARNS Farnsworth word spacing is used when transmitting See also CW CWFARNS CWTONE n n 50 2000 Hz Default 750 Hz Sets the center frequency of the CW receive filter and sets the transmitted AFSK CW tone frequency when CWOUTPUT is set to AUDIO See also CWOUT...
Page 118: ...rier Sense Multiple Access See also DAMACHCK DAMA section in the Operating Modes chapter DAMACHCK n n 0 to 255 Default 18 18 Multi Port Sets the DAMA timeout timer in 10 second increments If connected to a DAMA master station that is operating in DAMA slave mode and the master does not poll for data before the DAMACHCK timer expires the TNC will revert to CSMA operation and disconnect from the DAM...
Page 119: ...ied as four lower case y characters it will be displayed as 4 digits A small number of other UPPER CASE text characters such as a time zone or numbers may be entered and will be displayed as and where entered Remember that ALL lower case m d y h and s characters will be replaced by actual values Some examples the first line is the default entry of setting the DAYSTR command and the resulting time ...
Page 120: ...e parameter will slow the clock decreasing the parameter will speed up the clock Each count corresponds to 40 s increase or decrease per 24 h Ambient temperature will affect the clock to some degree DAYTWEAK has no effect on the battery backed clock BBC only using the DAYTIME command sets that clock The software clock stops when a soft reset or powering off occurs and upon power on the software cl...
Page 121: ...mit buffer a constant MARK frequency is transmitted DIGIPEAT ON UIONLY OFF Default ON When ON any received packet specifying a digipeater callsign that matches MYCALL MYALIAS or MYNODE if KA Node is active as the next digipeater in line will be retransmitted Each station included in the digipeat list relays the packet in the order specified in the address field Digipeating takes place concurrently...
Page 122: ... station connected to the MYREMOTE callsign will be disconnected This is also a valid remote command and can be used to end your own remote connection See also DBLDISC NEWMODE RETRY and STATUS DISPLAY ASYNC AMTOR ASCII CHAR CW GPS GT ID LINK MONITOR NET PBBS PT RTTY TIMING XTRA When entered alone a list of all command and parameter settings will be displayed When entered with a specific subgroup a...
Page 123: ...LOTTIME ECHO ON OFF Default ON When ON characters sent from the terminal are echoed back and displayed If each typed character is displayed twice set ECHO to OFF See also BKONDEL FLOW ESCAPE ON OFF Default OFF Specifies the character displayed when an escape character 1B is received in a packet When OFF 1B is displayed usually as a left pointing arrow This is useful if your terminal program interp...
Page 124: ...e display to resume When OFF display of received data will continue while sending from the keyboard When using a split screen terminal program with separated outgoing and incoming data areas set FLOW and ECHO both to OFF to allow received data to be displayed while data is sent to the TNC s transmit buffer See also CANLINE CANPAC CPACTIME ECHO PACLEN REDISPLAY and SENDPAC FRACK n n 1 15 s Default ...
Page 125: ...trols the polarity of the FSK output When OFF MARK is open collector and SPACE is ground When ON the polarity of MARK and SPACE is reversed FULLDUP ON OFF LOOPBACK Default OFF OFF Multi Port When OFF i e half duplex carrier detect status is used to determine channel availability When ON the carrier detect status does not inhibit transmission Full duplex operation is usually used with a separate re...
Page 126: ...clear one of the four strings enter the GPSHEAD command and buffer number and nothing else then press the ENTER key See also BLT LT LTP and LTRACK GPSINIT string string up to 128 characters Default blank Defines a string which will be sent to the attached GPS unit upon power up This may be used to initialize or configure a GPS unit to provide only selected information To send more than one string ...
Page 127: ...red to include a checksum while others do not See also GPSINIT GPSTIME OFF VALID ON GGA GLL RMC ZDA Default VALID RMC Specifies how the internal real time clock will be set from a GPS device When set to OFF the internal real time clock is not set from GPS NMEA strings When set to VALID the internal real time clock can only be set if the valid bit in the specified string is set meaning that positio...
Page 128: ...oadcast as when sending a CQ message or monitor FEC broadcasts from other stations if MONITOR is set to ON Entering the G TOR command with a callsign will initiate a link attempt with station xxxxxxxxxx To discontinue a link attempt or break an existing link use the Ctrl C D directive which will cause a return to G TOR Standby mode or use the Ctrl C X directive which will exit G TOR and return to ...
Page 129: ...ter is for port 1 HF the value after the slash is for port 2 VHF HBAUD affects only the radio port baud rates and is independent of the terminal baud rate specified with ABAUD HEADERLN ON OFF Default ON Sets the display format for monitored packets When ON a carriage return is inserted between the header and the text in the display of monitored packets This causes the packet header and time stamp ...
Page 130: ...BS are enabled These functions can use a callsign or an alias name The HID transmission will include the valid callsign as set in MYCALL as well as the callsigns and aliases of all other enabled functions See also DIGIPEAT ID MYALIAS MYCALL MYNODE MYPBBS NUMNODES and PBBS HTEXT text up to 128 characters Default blank Defines the hierarchical routing information used by the PBBS in messages forward...
Page 131: ...MINAL mode but certain messages are not displayed i e connect request FRMR etc for greater compatibility with full service BBS programs such as WØRLI WA7MBL CBBS etc When set to HOST communication is in HOST frames only All commands remain available and operation of two modes at once through the radio ports are possible packet on one port and a non packet HF mode on the other port For more informa...
Page 132: ...put and output sides will be disconnected Setting KNTIMER to 0 disables this feature See also RNRTIME KNXCON ON OFF Default OFF When OFF the cross connect function in the KA Node from one radio port to the other is disabled and the Xconnect command will not be shown When ON the Xconnect function is enabled allowing users of the KA Node to cross connect from one radio port to the other requires bot...
Page 133: ...not added to transmit data LFSUP ON OFF Default OFF When ON line feed characters received from other stations are filtered out suppressed and are not displayed When OFF the line feeds received from the other station are not suppressed and are displayed to the terminal as received See also AUTOLF CRSUP LGETCHAR n n 00 FF Default 05 Ctrl E Specifies the character used to display the current contents...
Page 134: ...D of that callsign To match a specific SSID only enter the callsign with that SSID for example callsign n where n 0 15 LOWTONES ON OFF Default OFF When set to ON European low tones are used LT n text n 1 4 text up to 128 chars Default blank for n 1 4 Entering LT alone will result in display of all 4 LT buffers The LT buffers Location Text buffers are used to store data from a GPS receiver or other...
Page 135: ... in the tracking buffer at the interval specified by each buffers respective BLT setting If SYSOP is specified only a user with SYSOP privileges may access the LTRACK buffer If TIME is specified a time stamp will be included in front of each LT message The LTRACK buffer can only be accessed by first connecting to the mailbox MYPBBS and using the mailbox command LTR List TRacking buffer To see the ...
Page 136: ...edgement has been received See also PACLEN MAXUSERS n n 0 26 Default 10 10 Multi Port Allocates the buffer memory required for the maximum number of simultaneous packet connections to or from MYCALL allowed on each radio port Changing the value of MAXUSERS will cause a soft reset to change the memory allocation MAXUSERS can not be changed while any packet connections exist Entering a value of 0 fo...
Page 137: ...ed to the packet header A letter is included with these characters to denote the type of control packet received e g c a connect request packet The types of control packets are listed below C Connect request D Disconnect request DM Disconnected Mode UA Unnumbered Acknowledge In addition the following bracketed information will be added to the Information packets as appropriate UI Unconnected Infor...
Page 138: ...ude the packet headers and only the data contained in the packets in I and UI frames are displayed The BUDLIST command can be used to restrict the display of monitored packets to those from selected callsigns See also MONITOR MCON MBEACON MALL SUPLIST BUDLIST MHEARD SHORT LONG CLEAR When entered alone displays a short list of callsigns heard in monitored packets with the date time the station was ...
Page 139: ...lti Port When ON eligible monitored packets are displayed according to the settings of MALL MBEACON MCOM MCON MRESP MRPT and MXMIT commands unless prohibited by SUPLIST BUDLIST or LLIST All monitor functions are disabled in the Transparent Mode When OFF only packets resulting from a connect connection to the TNC will be displayed See also BUDLIST HEADERLN LLIST MALL MBEACON MCOM MCON MHEADER MRESP...
Page 140: ...is the ASCII character displayed when the associated code is received When two character values are entered together those characters are displayed together Codes available for definition by the MORSE command are MORSE CODE TX RX CODE TX RX 00 00 2A 4141 AA 00 00 00 00 21 534E SN 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 4153 AS 00 00 2B 4152 AR 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2F 2F 00 00 00 00 26 4B41 KA 28 28 00 00 00 00 00...
Page 141: ...2V2 MCOM and MONITOR For more information see the book AX 25 Amateur Packet Radio Link Layer Protocol Version 2 0 October 1984 which may be obtained from the ARRL MRPT ON OFF Default ON ON Multi Port When ON the display of monitored packets include the complete list of digipeater callsigns in the packet header An asterisk indicates the station from which the packet was heard The MONITOR command mu...
Page 142: ...Multi Port Enables digipeating by the callsign or alias name entered The callsign or alias name can include up to six characters plus optional SSID and must be different than MYCALL MYNODE MYPBBS or MYREMOTE Can be disabled by entering MYALIAS See also HID MYAUTOST xxxxxxx Default MYCALL Specifies the callsign or name used for automatically starting receive operations in RTTY or ASCII modes when A...
Page 143: ...D saying Press to set baud rate When an is received it will then request a callsign entry The callsign entered is set in MYCALL and is used to define callsigns or IDs for other functions CWIDTEXT MYGATE MYGTCALL MYGROUP MYNODE MYPBBS MYPTCALL and MYSELCAL See also CWIDTEXT DIGIPEAT ID MYALIAS MYNODE MYPBBS MYREMOTE and MYSEL MYDGPS call Default blank Enables reception of differential GPS data in m...
Page 144: ...everal stations to use a group selcal and still maintain their own individual selcal Accepts 4 characters 4 or 5 numbers or 7 characters 9 numbers CCIR 625 or an amateur callsign See also AUTOSTRT MYGTCALL xxxxxxxxxx Default based on MYCALL Sets the callsign to be recognized in G TOR link requests Accepts up to 10 ASCII characters MYNODE xxxxxx n n 0 15 Default mycall 7 Sets the callsign or alias ...
Page 145: ... MYPTCALL xxxxxxxx Default MYCALL Sets the callsign to be recognized in PACTOR link requests Accepts up to 8 ASCII characters MYREMOTE xxxxxx n n 0 15 Default blank Sets the callsign used for remote access Accepts up to six characters plus optional SSID which is different than those used for MYCALL MYALIAS MYNODE or MYPBBS RTEXT must also be entered providing a password to enable remote access For...
Page 146: ... own seven characters you must remember that the CCIR 625 recommendation does not allow the use of the letters G H J L N or W You must use the MYSELCAL command twice to change both the 4 character and the 7 character selcal Both selcals are valid and either one is recognized automatically See also AMTOR FEC NAVCLR Clears the NAVTEX message log See also NAVTEX NAVERR n n 0 10 Default 5 Specifies th...
Page 147: ...classes are not selected a warning message will be displayed Specifying ALL will enable display of all classes of messages Specifying NONE will exclude all classes Message classes are listed in the NAVTEX section of this manual See also NAVSTA NAVTEX NAVSTA c ccc ALL NONE c A Z Default ALL Specifies the originating station s from which to display messages in NAVTEX mode When set to ALL all NAVTEX ...
Page 148: ...ndicates that the station ID packet was heard through a digipeater Nodes are identified as ALIAS CALLSIGN and KA Nodes will be identified as MYNODE MYCALL If the S option is used i e NDHEARD S then only the callsigns of the stations heard will be displayed If the L option is selected all callsigns contained in the received ID packet are displayed including digipeaters If the C option is used the n...
Page 149: ...e NETCALL must be entered before the K Net can be operational and must be different from any other callsign used in the KAM XL Entering a as the NETCALL will clear both the Nodes and Routes tables but not change any node related parameters Entering or changing the NETCALL will cause a soft reset as memory is re allocated NETCIRCS n n 1 64 Default 5 This command limits the number of Network Circuit...
Page 150: ...ing of the K Net QUALITY and MINQUAL commands will allow the number of destination nodes listed in your nodes table to float with changing band conditions and assure that reliable destination nodes are still listed Each NETDEST allocated requires 31 bytes of RAM Changing NETDESTS will cause a soft reset as memory is re allocated NETLINKS n n 1 64 Default 10 The NETLINKS command sets the maximum nu...
Page 151: ...nd Mode if the station disconnecting is on a different stream When OFF a disconnect will not cause the TNC to change modes See also CONNECT DISCONNECT STATUS NOMODE ON OFF Default OFF When OFF a change to the mode specified by CONMODE will take place upon connection to another station When ON no mode change will take place upon connection to another station See also CONMODE CONNECT NTEXT text up t...
Page 152: ... larger than available RAM will allow will cause display of a Not enough RAM message NUMNODES must be entered complete with a new value to change the number of available KA Node circuits If just checking the current setting the short form command NU will be accepted See also MYNODE KA Node section PACLEN n n 0 255 characters Default 128 Specifies the maximum number of characters allowed in the dat...
Page 153: ...the MYPTCALL or display Pactor FEC or ARQ signals from other stations if MONITOR for that port is ON If TRACE is also ON each received Pactor frame will be displayed in hexadecimal format not available in HOST mode Entering PACTOR and a callsign will initiate a link attempt to that station If the optional is included preceding a callsign the link attempt and resulting link to the station specified...
Page 154: ...arent flow control characters See also TRFLOW TXFLOW PASSALL ON OFF Default OFF OFF Multi Port When ON enables the display of received packets which may contain errors incorrect checksum in the packet detected If a received packet contains beginning and ending flags the TNC will attempt to decode the address field as well as the data field and display the packet as specified by other commands such...
Page 155: ...e will cause all messages to be renumbered beginning with 1 See also CMSG MYPBBS PBHEADER PBLO PBPERSON PTEXT PBBS section PBFORWRD bbscall VIA call1 call2 call8 port EVERY AFTER n Default NONE EVERY 0 When a BBS callsign and interval is entered enables eligible mail message forwarding to the specified BBS also requires that HTEXT be set Any message placed in the PBBS containing an BBS field and i...
Page 156: ... section PBHOLD ON OFF Default ON When ON any forward able message received by the PBBS over the radio will automatically be held for review A held message can be made available for forwarding by editing it and changing the H flag When OFF forward able messages received by the PBBS over the radio are not held and are immediately eligible to be forwarded Any messages addressed TO or the MYCALL or M...
Page 157: ...to remove all items from the current list When PBLIST is changed the new list takes effect immediately for use with the PBBS commands LISTMINE READMINE and KILLMINE but the new list will not be used with the mail status indicator until after the next disconnect from the PBBS or the next reset When PBLIST is OFF only messages addressed to MYCALL and MYPBBS are affected by the PBBS commands LISTMINE...
Page 158: ...be addressed to anyone See also MYCALL MYPBBS and PBBS PBREVERS ON OFF Default ON When ON the TNC PBBS will request a reverse forward from another BBS after it has finished forwarding any mail to the other BBS This does not affect the ability of another BBS to reverse forward from your PBBS but only affects the action taken by the TNC after it has initiated a forward PBFORWRD command Note Your PBB...
Page 159: ...LOTTIME are 1 in 4 Actually the probability is PERSIST plus 1 divided by 256 If the generated random number is greater than PERSIST the timer restarts and waits for the timer to expire again before generating a new random number This is repeated until the data packet is transmitted Decreasing the value of SLOTTIME will cause the random number to be generated more frequently whereas increasing the ...
Page 160: ...de is command mode i e show the cmd prompt Once started non packet modes of communication are controlled using directives immediate commands issued by Ctrl command letter so there is no command line when in a non packet mode of communication Directives for a given non packet mode of communication cannot be entered unless that mode of communication is active When PMODE is set to the name of any non...
Page 161: ...transmission or within text to be used for CW transmission it will cause the NEXT TWO characters codes to be combined For example AS will cause the codes for A and S to be combined into the wait code or AS See also MORSE CODE PTDOWN n n 2 30 Default 6 Sets the number of consecutive bad frames received while in a PACTOR link to cause a decrease in speed to 100 baud PTERRS n n 30 255 Default 80 Sets...
Page 162: ...ons will be at 100 baud When set to 200 transmissions will be at 200 baud PTHUFF ON OFF Default OFF When ON this command allows Huffman compression of 7 bit data in PACTOR mode Compression is used only when it will result in greater throughput Any frames containing 8 bit data are not subject to Huffman compression When OFF Huffman compression is disabled PTLISTEN Enters the PACTOR Listen mode and ...
Page 163: ...frames are stored in an attempt to assemble a valid frame a process called memory ARQ When frames with an invalid CRC 16 checksum are received they are stored in memory When the sending station repeats the frame and if the checksum is again invalid that frame and the previous invalid frame s will be used in an attempt to assemble a good frame by combining the frames received PTTRIES n n 0 9 Defaul...
Page 164: ...mal value range See also ANALOG TELEMETRY RBAUD n n 20 1200 baud Default 45 Sets the default baud rate used when entering RTTY mode When operating in the RTTY mode typing the Ctrl C 0 directive will also switch to the RBAUD rate See also PMODE RTTY REDISPLA n n 00 FF Default 12 Ctrl R Defines the REDISPLAY input editing character The parameter n is the ASCII code for the character that will REDISP...
Page 165: ...TOR repeated errors will cause an automatic attempt to REPHASE with the other station When OFF repeated errors will cause a return to AMTOR Standby mode See also ARQID RESET When entered causes a soft reset same as a power off on Contents of the mailbox PBBS are kept and the NDHEARD MHEARD and PHEARD logs are not cleared Any existing connections which have not been CONPERMed will be lost even thou...
Page 166: ... time between retries when no acknowledgment is received is specified by the command FRACK See also AX25L2V2 FRACK RELINK and TRIES RING ON OFF Default ON When ON three bell characters 07 are sent to the terminal with each CONNECTED TO message when another station initiates the connect RNRTIME n n 0 255 Default 0 RNRTIME is set in 10 second increments If a connection stays in a remote device busy ...
Page 167: ...assword string for remote access When connecting from a remote station to the MYREMOTE or attempting to enter the SYSOP mode of the PBBS the TNC will send three lines of five numbers each of which one line must be properly decoded matching position number with string character and returned See also PBBS and Remote Access in the Operations sections RTTY n n 20 500 baud When entered alone enters the...
Page 168: ...fied the MARK and SPACE commands set the tone frequencies used The MARK and SPACE settings are always used for HF Packet tones and in G Tor mode When operating in a non packet mode the ctrl C S directive may be used to change shifts only while in RECEIVE See also MARK SPACE SLOTTIME n n 0 255 Default 10 10 Multi Port Specifies the amount of time n 10 ms between successive tries of the persistence ...
Page 169: ...ses the STATUS display to also include the status of all connect streams allowed by MAXUSERS PBBS NUMNODES and MYREMOTE The current KA NODE input and output IO stream is also indicated A pound sign indicates that there is unacknowledged data in the buffers for that stream The number immediately following the is the number of bytes outstanding The number in parentheses is the number of packets not ...
Page 170: ...the stream identifier on which that station is connected See also MCON MONITOR STREAMCA and STREAMSW STREAMSW n n 00 FF Default 7C Defines the character used to change to a different stream or port To change streams enter the streamswitch character port number if switching radio ports followed by the stream designator The stream designator is an alphabetic character A through Z or a through z limi...
Page 171: ...event the display of packets even if it has callsigns listed Selective display is enabled when one or two callsigns are combined with a and or character Note that an entry of callsign1 callsign2 or callsign1 callsign2 counts as 2 of the 10 allowed callsigns See also MONITOR TELEMTRY n n 0 255 Default 0 Sets the interval of transmission of the telemetry beacon every n 10 s When transmitted it will ...
Page 172: ...t When ON all received frames are displayed in their entirety in hexadecimal including all header information All packets which are eligible for monitoring also will be displayed in normal text When in the HF ARQ modes AMTOR PACTOR or G TOR the TRACE information of each received frame will be displayed Note that TRACE information is not available when in HOST mode TRANS Enters Transparent Mode and...
Page 173: ...e both set to 00 values only hardware flow control can be used See also TRANS TXFLOW and XFLOW TRIES n n 0 15 Is a counter used to keep track of the number of attempts made to re send a packet on the current stream which failed to reach its destination It can be manually set usually to a lower number to allow more attempts to be made or to its maximum to end attempts on the current stream See also...
Page 174: ...W is OFF hardware flow control must be used between the computer and TNC RTS and CTS must be connected between the TNC and computer for hardware flow control When TXFLOW is ON software flow control between the TNC and computer in Transparent Mode will depend on the setting of XFLOW XFLOW ON enables software flow control XFLOW OFF disables it When software flow control is enabled the TNC will send ...
Page 175: ...gipeat packets those formed by UIDIGI UIFLOOD or UITRACE only have their usual channel access there is no wait DWAIT or SLOTTIME added before transmission once the channel is clear However if UIDWAIT is set ON the packets waiting to be digipeated will be subject to the same wait times as not to be digipeated packets awaiting transmission By subjecting special to be digipeated packets to a delay de...
Page 176: ...ta fields of the packet This checksum is kept for n seconds 0 255 If an incoming UI packet is eligible for digipeating as above but its checksum matches one of those being saved the packet is discarded not digipeated The buffer holds a maximum of 64 checksums If the optional parameter ID is selected the MYCALL call sign is inserted in an additional digipeater address field with its H bit set See a...
Page 177: ...re transmit the packet The digipeater list is also used when broadcasting BEACON and ID packets If UNPROTO is set to NONE no unconnected packets will be sent except for BEACON and ID Each callsign may also have an optional Secondary Station Identifier SSID specified as n where n 1 15 The digipeat callsigns are specified in the order in which they are to relay transmitted packets See also BEACON ID...
Page 178: ...ach pixel The audio input is sampled n times per second Each sample becomes one data point sent over the serial port to the computer where it will be used to display a single pixel on a weather map If m 1 or 0 a BLACK WHITE decision is made on each sample If m is specified as 2 two bits of data representing 4 gray levels are conveyed to the serial port for each pixel and if m is set to 4 4 bits re...
Page 179: ...e START and STOP characters from the computer When set to OFF the TNC will only use and recognize hardware flow control lines CTS and RTS to start or stop data The RS232 cable must be wired appropriately If the software flow control characters are set to 00 software flow control is not possible In the Transparent Mode flow control is also determined by the settings of TRFLOW and TXFLOW See also ST...
Page 180: ...trl S Selects the character sent by the TNC to the computer to stop input from the computer If set to 00 hardware flow control must be used For software flow control set this parameter to the character the computer expects to see to stop sending data to the TNC See also XFLOW XON XON n n 00 FF Default 11 Ctrl Q Selects the character sent by the TNC to the computer to restart input from that device...
Page 181: ...p circuit which will cause it to retain changes to commands parameter settings and maintain the real time clock When used in a TNC the Lithium Cell will typically last from 2 to 5 years It is a common type CR2032 lithium cell Lithium cells can leak or explode if heated disassembled recharged exposed to fire or high temperature or inserted incorrectly When replacing a spent cell follow proper dispo...
Page 182: ...to external devices not to exceed 50 V and 200 mA Pin 9 This pin is connected to ground same as pin 6 Interfacing Hand Held Radios Most hand held transceivers HTs use an electret type condenser microphone which requires a voltage supplied from the radio to operate Typically HTs obtain Push To Talk keying by completing a low impedance circuit between the microphone input and PTT ground A direct PTT...
Page 183: ...style connector and has the same pin configuration and functions as port 2 Pin No Name Function 1 TXA1 Transmit audio AFSK out 2 XCD1 External carrier detect 3 PTT1 Push to Talk 4 CTRL1B Control line B CW Key out Port 1 5 RXA1 Receive audio AFSK in 6 GND Ground 7 FSK1 Digital output of AFSK out 8 CTRL1A Control line A Port 1 9 GND Ground Pin 1 Connects to the microphone input of the radio providin...
Page 184: ... is an open drain circuit controlled by the CTRL command It may be used as a control line to external devices not to exceed 50 V and 200 mA Pin 9 This pin is connected to ground same as pin 6 Transmit level This section has information beyond that covered in the installation chapter which documents the basic procedures for setting transmit level for port 2 Drive level for this port should be set s...
Page 185: ...he chassis 5 Remove the ten 10 stud screws that secure the connectors to the rear panel of the chassis 6 Remove the three 3 front panel screws and remove the front panel 7 The circuit board can then be lifted up and out of the chassis The KAM XL uses low internal operating voltages and components can be damaged very easily by static discharges Observe proper static protection precautions when hand...
Page 186: ... which will cause all command changes and mailbox messages to be lost When the reset jumper has been returned to its normal position opened the KAM XL will power up as a new unit with all commands at factory default settings and will be running its AUTOBAUD routine It must then be initialized to return to normal operation Updating Uploading new BIOS Firmware Loading a new BIOS program in the KAM X...
Page 187: ...the KAM XL receives each line of data in the file it will return an character You should see s marching across and down the screen at a fairly rapid pace If you see no s re check the terminal programs settings to be sure that it is set for SOFTWARE flow control XON XOFF and NOT HARDWARE flow control RTS CTS If the s do appear but only very slowly re check the terminal program settings to be sure t...
Page 188: ...the calibrate mode CAL you should use the T option to initiate the transmission of a square wave and then adjust the AFSK drive level by pressing the or key and holding it down until you achieve the drive level you need Adjust the level to achieve about 3 to 3 5 kHz deviation from the transmitter When the deviation has been set exit CAL mode and check the parameter value for XMTLVL Make a note of ...
Page 189: ...t with the and keys so that the transmitter produces about 3 kHz of deviation When connected to an HF SSB transmitter make the adjustment so as not to exceed the normal ALC range same as when adjusting drive using the microphone This is very important for HF modes such as PSK31 When the transmit level has been set exit CAL mode with the X command and check the parameter value for XMTLVL Make a not...
Page 190: ... 3 3 V center pin to pin 2 Default FSK J2 Sets Port 1 Receive input impedance Open 10 k closed 620 Default open J3 Sets Port 2 Transmit data output to either FSK FET transistor switch ON OFF center pin to pin 1 or TTL drive 0 to 3 3 V center pin to pin 2 Default open J4 Sets Port 2 receive input impedance Open 10 k closed 620 Default open J5 Port 2 PTT Watchdog When open the watchdog is enabled PT...
Page 191: ...ac coupling J10 When closed and J12 open and the unit powered ON a SELF TEST is performed user memory is tested and cleared and result messages displayed at 19200 baud J11 When closed adds a load impedance to the transmit audio AFSK output on Port 1 J12 When closed and the unit powered ON a YES NO query is displayed to verifiy that the procedure should or should not continue If answered YES the cu...
Page 192: ...may need to use an insulated tool to assist in removal of the battery When installing a replacement battery CR 2032 or equivalent be sure to insert the battery with its positive terminal against the top clip of the battery holder NOTE When removing the lithium battery from the KAM XL all stored parameter changes will be lost and the unit will revert to the factory default parameters ...
Page 193: ...ve the radio to determine if it is being switched to the Transmit condition If not recheck wiring between the KAM XL radio port PTT pin and ground on the microphone jack 3 If receive led on the KAM XL does not light when receiving packets from other stations recheck the audio connection between the radio and the KAM XL 4 If possible monitor the signal from the transmitter with another radio If the...
Page 194: ... you will not see the normal sign on message but instead will see the message SØØ sent by the TNC to indicate that it is in HOST Mode If you see this message you must first exit the Host Mode before you can start talking to your unit with a program such as Pacterm You must send three characters to the TNC in order to exit the Host Mode First send a FEND character ASCII code 192 then the letter q u...
Page 195: ...creen when entering the Calibrate Mode for port 1 Press M to generate a MARK tone R to receive a Kantronics Calibrate signal from another TNC S to generate a SPACE tone T to transmit a Kantronics Calibrate signal or to adjust XMITLVL while transmitting or X to return to the Command Mode VHF CALIBRATE MODE HBAUD 1200 M sends mark R receive S sends space T sends square wave B random or adjust XMITLV...
Page 196: ...erforming a hard reset or any time a soft reset is performed including initial power up and an EPROM error is detected CHECKSUM OK When performing a hard reset this message indicates that the Kantronics firmware Eprom has passed the internal checksum test cmd This is the Command Mode s prompt for input Any characters entered after the TNC prints cmd will be used as command input and not packet dat...
Page 197: ... example the required callsign after the VIA option is missing Most commands that receive an EH error are ignored In a few cases part of the command may be accepted and acted upon as described under the message Input ignored ENTER YOUR CALLSIGN Type in your callsign The TNC needs to know who you are to properly implement its protocol Your callsign will be placed in the MYCALL parameter and used to...
Page 198: ...BØNYK the NØKN is ignored INVALID STREAM The stream you have tried to change to is not valid Port numbers must be numbers 1 or 2 Stream designators must be letters A Z MAXUSERS sets the upper limit on valid streams and which ports are valid KANTRONICS KAM XL VERSION 1 07050 C COPYRIGHT 2006 BY KANTRONICS INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DUPLICATION PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF KANTRONICS A message such...
Page 199: ...ice busy The remote TNC is unable to receive any more data from the radio at this time Waiting ACK and device busy Your TNC has sent a packet to another station and is waiting for the acknowledgment but your TNC is not able to accept any data from the radio at this time Waiting ACK and remote busy Your TNC has sent a packet to another station and is waiting for the acknowledgment and the remote TN...
Page 200: ... isn t enough memory left Not while connected Some parameters cannot be changed if the TNC is connected to another station This message is printed if an attempt is made PBBS MESSAGE BUFFER NOT VALID TRYING TO RECOVER When you turn on the TNC a check is made of the pointers relating to the PBBS It appears that one or more of these pointers may not be correct An attempt is made to correct them but i...
Page 201: ... exit the Host mode you must send three characters to the TNC from your keyboard See the Host mode section of the manual for details Two FEND characters precede this message and one FEND character follows this message but they may not be visible depending on your terminal program Value out of range If the syntax of the command is legal but the value specified is too large or too small for this com...
