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Kantronics

All Mode

Communicator

Version D (v2.7)
August 1987

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Page 2: ...perations 24 CW Mode 25 RTTY ASCII Operation 26 FSK 27 AMTOR 28 Chapter 5 Kantronics Personal Packet Mailbox 29 Chapter 6 System Operation and Control 35 Display Control 35 Packet Data Modes 35 Conver...

Page 3: ...ly In addition the symbol CR is used to signify the action of operating the key which causes entry of a carriage return PRECAUTIONS CAUTION The KAM is grounded through its connections to your transcei...

Page 4: ...ors in RFI in duced problems The suggestions given here may assist in resolving RFI problems you may en counter in your unique station 1 Use shielded cable for all interconnections between equipment 2...

Page 5: ...owever the cen ter frequency can be varied to suit your transceiver s requirements The bandwidth of the CW filter is normally set at 200 Hertz and may be set to any bandwidth between 50 and 1000 Hertz...

Page 6: ...6 Reed relay CW keying to accommodate any transmitter or transceiver 7 Selectable AFSK output level to both the HF and VHF port provides modulation for all trans ceivers including those requiring pre...

Page 7: ...This LED will illuminate when you are receiving a VHF packet CON This LED will illuminate when you have a VHF Packet connection In addition when operating non Packet HF modes this LED will blink ON O...

Page 8: ...er systems require that a terminal pro gram be obtained separately In general any program which allows telephone modem communica tions with the computer will be suitable for use with the KAM We have i...

Page 9: ...8 and 20 Check your computer reference manual CONNECTING KAM TO YOUR COMPUTER NOTE Before making any connections to the KAM you should review the internal jumpers information in Chapter 3 page 13 The...

Page 10: ...program routines which allows it to do what you want done and report the results back to you This short section will give you a familiar ity with the procedures needed to initially manipulate the uni...

Page 11: ...can become familiar with issuing com mands and setting parameters First boot your terminal program After booting the terminal program turn on power to the KAM You will see the message PRESS TO SET BA...

Page 12: ...re go to the chapter on Commands and Messages and pick out a few to use At this point let s simulate an attempt to connect to another station on VHF Again you need not wire your radio to the KAM yet F...

Page 13: ...he HI position sets an AFSK output level of 50 mV Both levels are peak to peak values In general transceivers requiring a pre amplified mi crophone will require the HI level AFSK output from the KAM R...

Page 14: ...sition K 7 RS 232 TTL This jumper is provided to change the KAM from RS 232 to TTL operating voltage levels This unit is shipped from the factory in the RS 232 position If your computer operates at TT...

Page 15: ...audio cable center conductor Plug this lead to one leg of the Y connector cable provided in the KAM accessory bag Plug the Y connector cable into the external speaker jack of the transceiver The rema...

Page 16: ...ey Out green lead This line may be used to control CW keying on your transceiver Separate a small length of this lead and attach a lead with the appropriate plug for your transceiver key jack Pin 5 FS...

Page 17: ...cuit which is available by jumper positioning Enabling this circuit is done as follows 1 Refer to assembly disassembly instructions if necessary and remove the KAM from its case 2 Locate point Z on th...

Page 18: ...Setting MAXUsers to 10 0 configures the KAM for HF only operation likewise setting MAXUsers to 0 10 configures the KAM for VHF only operation In either of these configurations the H or V indicators a...

Page 19: ...e the following sign on message will appear on the screen KANTONICS ALL MODE COMMUNICATOR VERSION 2 nn ENTER YOUR CALLSIGN Enter your callsign and press the ENTER or RETURN key on your keyboard The KA...

Page 20: ...ackets The Packet protocol is designed to inhibit transmission of packets if the band carrier detect is busy We recommend that your first Packet operation with KAM be tried on the VHF band At initial...

Page 21: ...t specify digipeaters in the order they will be encountered along the path from your station to the station you wish to connect to You may specify up to eight digipeaters in the con nection path and m...

Page 22: ...ISCONNECTED D H Stream DISCONNECTED E H Stream DISCONNECTED F H Stream DISCONNECTED G H Stream DISCONNECTED H H Stream DISCONNECTED I H Stream DISCONNECTED J H Stream DISCONNECTED A V Stream I O DISCO...

Page 23: ...up to 10 may be set without resetting the MAXUsers pa rameter If you wish to allow more than 10 simultaneous connections you must first set MAXUsers to a new value at least as high as the maximum num...

Page 24: ...attended station 2 Some amateurs in your VHF local area network may not have operating privileges in the HF band you are providing access to You must identify those callsigns not authorized gateway ac...

Page 25: ...y its default setting This is displayed on the monitor screen as two digits separated by a hyphen Default setting is 10 wpm Therefore the numbers will display as 10 10 The left number specifies the sp...

Page 26: ...Mode and enter a command of CW XX You can always return to Command Mode by typing CTRL C followed by the letter X Special CW characters Several of the most commonly used prosigns are embedded in the...

Page 27: ...may set any desired baud rate in 1 baud increments up to a maximum of 500 baud However HF Operation is limited to 300 baud You may specify the desired shift while in Command Mode before selecting RTTY...

Page 28: ...no spaces be tween these commands At this time you will be sending in mode B and you should see your trans mitter key and the LED bargraph dark After allowing the transmitter to send idle characters f...

Page 29: ...s entered via a distant digipeater or by other stations which access your mailbox The Personal Packet Mailbox includes a timer circuit which will automatically disconnect should there be no activity f...

Page 30: ...entering your callsign and obtaining a cmd prompt the first step should be to allocate RAM for personal mailbox use At the cmd prompt make the following entry cmd PBBS 5 CR The unit will execute a res...

Page 31: ...ailbox The message you have entered may be deleted by using the PBKill command At the cmd prompt enter the PBKill command followed by the message number Example cmd PBK 1 CR When the kill command is e...

Page 32: ...ill read the message number specified ONLY messages addressed to the connected station or all may be read UNLESS the connected station is you the personal mailbox OPERATOR Send This command is used to...

Page 33: ...your display S N0APJ CR The mailbox responds ENTER MESSAGE END WITH CTRL Z OR EX NOTE The CTRL Z or EX MUST be sent as a separate line preceded and followed by a CR After you have entered the text of...

Page 34: ...ead Send callsign 3 The Community PBBS should send one of the following S callsign SB callsign SP callsign ST callsign S callsign callsign SB callsign callsign SP callsign callsign ST callsign callsig...

Page 35: ...our display may be caused by both your keyboard input and KAM echoing characters you type The Echo command can be set to OFF to prevent this When you are in the Transparent Mode KAM will not echo your...

Page 36: ...o channel including all 8 bits of each byte received All features such as linefeed LF and CR insertion ESCAPE translation and case conversion are disabled In addition echoing of input characters is di...

Page 37: ...ic wait time can be imposed on any station not transmitting a digipeated packet Any station which is ready to transmit a packet immediately after the carrier drops is required to wait for this time in...

Page 38: ...ment flow control in Software and many RS 232 ports do not support hardware flow control Even if the RTS and CTS lines appear at the connector software which directly reads the CTS line may be require...

Page 39: ...een the KAM and the terminal The KAM will as sert CTS when it is ready to accept data from the terminal and negate this line when it is not ready to accept data Thus if you find the KAM won t send dat...

Page 40: ...r two stations using the Kantronics All Mode Communicator are necessary to utilize this command Once the CALibrate commana is given three options will appear on the terminal screen Calibrate Mode Pres...

Page 41: ...nd bezel 4 Remove the screw securing VRl the voltage regulator to the case 5 Slide the unit out of the case To reassemble reverse the procedure above Do not attach cables to the rear of the unit with...

Page 42: ...booted with the correct communications parameters 5 Check to insure that the RS 232 TTL jumper K 7 is properly positioned for your com puter 6 Try a Hard Reset using the Test Normal jumper K 6 II You...

Page 43: ...digits of a hex number rep resent powers of 16 analogous to the powers of 10 represented by a decimal number The num bers 10 through 15 are denoted by the hex digits A through F For example 1B 1 16 1...

Page 44: ...ets HF MAXframe to 4 MAX 7 sets VHF MAXframe to 7 MAX G sets both HF and VHF MAXframe to 6 All commands having independent values for the HF and VHF port are set in the same manner In the command desc...

Page 45: ...13 STREAMCA OFF STREAMDB OFF STREAMEV OFF STREAMER 40 7C XOFF 13 XON 11 CMD DISP I BEACON EVERY 0 EVERY 0 BTEXT KANTRONICS ALL MODE COMMUNICATOR V2 0 CMSG OFF OFF CTEXT HID OFF OFF MYALIAS MYCALL MYGA...

Page 46: ...e line cmd This is the Command Mode s prompt for input Any characters entered after the KAM prints cmd will be used as command input and not Packet data EH This is the TNC s generalized I don t unders...

Page 47: ...dates EXTERNAL MODEM CAN ONLY BE USED IN VHF ONLY MODE The particular optional modem installed inside the KAM unit can only be used when the HF val ue of MAXUsers is set to zero Link state is This mes...

Page 48: ...m the radio for the time being An RNR Receiver Not Ready has been sent FRMR sent Frame reject packet has been sent due to a detected error in protocol Three bytes 6 hexadec imal characters are display...

Page 49: ...te an ARQ call Entering AMtor without xxxx will place the unit in standby mode for reception of either ARQ or mode B FEC sig nals You may initiate a mode B FEC transmission by using the CTRL C command...

Page 50: ...er Repeaters using slow mechanical relays split sites or both require some amount of time to get RF on the air AXHang n default 0 n 0 to 255 each increment specifying 10 millisecond intervals This val...

Page 51: ...value between 0 and 31 each increment specifying 10 second intervals If n is greater than zero then a periodic check will be made to determine that a connected state still exists when no activity has...

Page 52: ...the current stream is displayed When operating with the multiple connections allowed Connect requests may only be initiated in the Command Mode See also the following commands MAXUsers USers STReamsw...

Page 53: ...peed For example if the code sounds like 20 WPM then enter CW 20 Auto ranging for CW speed tracking is 20 WPM from the speed selected If no value is entered for n the speed specified in CWSpeed will b...

Page 54: ...connect This command will initiate an immediate disconnect request with the currently connected sta tion A succesful disconnect results in the display of DISCONNECTED If multiple connects exist the Di...

Page 55: ...nector This carrier detect signal must be provided by the radio for the KAM demodulator circuits to be enabled This input may be used in the same manner as a squelch input to allow the KAM to detect a...

Page 56: ...9 5 minutes PROVIDED THAT packets are being digipeated through your station If OFF periodic identification packets will not be sent This command should be ON if ALias or Gateway is ON See Id command f...

Page 57: ...lt ON When ON no character translation occurs in the KAM If OFF lower case characters will be translated to upper case before being output to the terminal from the KAM This case translation is disable...

Page 58: ...ON Unnum bered information frames UI and numbered information frames In are also displayed The send sequence number N S is d L splayed with the I frame MCon ON OFF default OFF OFF When ON the KAM wil...

Page 59: ...This callsign will be placed in the FROM ad dress field for all packets originated by it and it will respond to frames with this call sign in the TO or digipeat fields as appropriate This callsign is...

Page 60: ...ty mode for output to the terminal according to the following table n Parity 0 1 2 3 4 odd even mark space none no modification The unit can only send serial output with 8 data bits and one stop bit S...

Page 61: ...hip can be PErmed a minimum of 1 000 times PERSist n default 255 n can be any value from 0 to 255 When the RAM has a packet to send and the channel is clear it will begin transmitting with a probabili...

Page 62: ...eft off You can use the REDisplay line character to see a clean copy of your input if you are using a printing terminal and you have deleted characters The REDisplayed line will show the corrected tex...

Page 63: ...e in tens of milliseconds be tween successive tries of the persistence algorithm SPace n default 1800 This command sets the space frequency used when the unit is in the modem shift STARt n default 11...

Page 64: ...wish to change outgoing streams you MUST first es cape to COMMAND MODE SUPCalls callsign s or NONE default NONE A list of up to 10 callsigns for use with SUplist SUplist ON OFF default OFF When ON pa...

Page 65: ...oming connect requests For example if USers 5 then an incoming connect re quest will connect to the lowest channel A E if any of these channels are in the unconnected state If none of the 5 channels a...

Page 66: ...sult you computer manual to determine which key performs the CTRL key function CONTROL COMMAND FUNCTION MODE CTRL C R CTRL C E CTRL C T CTRL C I CTRL C S CTRL C X CTRL C n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 return t...

Page 67: ...14 R10 620 C23 1 CR15 1N914 R11 220 C24 01 CR16 1N914 R12 1k C25 20p CR17 1N4003 R13 100k C26 20p CR18 1N4003 R14 1M C27 1 CR19 1N914 R15 1M C28 1 CH20 1N914 R16 1M C29 1 Alum CR21 1N914 R17 470 C30 0...

Page 68: ...2 15k S2 PUSH PUSH R63 5k1 R64 82k U1 MC34074 R65 9k53 MF U2 741IC04 R66 68k U3 4018 R67 47k U4 MF4CN R68 100k U5 TCM3105 R69 150k U6 MF10CN R70 22k U7 LM339 R71 68k U8 MF10CN R72 100k U9 MF10CN R73 1...

Page 69: ...Chapter 7 Commands and Messages 69...

Page 70: ...Chapter 7 Commands and Messages 70...

Page 71: ...parent mode CMSg Send CTEXT message on connect COMmand CTRL C used for commands or getting into command mode CONMode Convers or transparent when you connect Connect Immediate command for packet connec...

Page 72: ...digipeating LOwtones European standard low tone pairs MAll Monitor all packets MARk Used in MODEM shift MAXframe Maximum number of unacknowledged frames MAXUsers The most simultaneous connects you can...

Page 73: ...hort status displayed Status Display status of all streams STOp CTRL S stops unit from printing STREAMCa Callsign displayed after stream ID STREAMDb Print stream switch character twice STREAMEv Displa...

Page 74: ...RAM for personal mailbox PBDisconnect Force the personal mailbox to disconnect user PBKill Delete a message from the personal mailbox PBList Lists message header and number of messages PBMon Allow a...

Page 75: ...6 30 GET 2 A 40 REM 50 GET B 55 IF B CHR 133 THEN GOTO 100 60 IF B THEN PRINT 2 B 70 GET 2 C 80 PRINT C 90 GOTO 50 100 CLOSE2 110 END Wire a 24 pin edge connector as shown to the cable provided with...

Page 76: ...BASIC TERMINAL PROGRAM FOR THE APPLE COMPUTER WITH THE SUPER SERIALCARD 10 REM THIS PROGRAM SETS UP THE SSC FOR THE TNC 20 REM ASSUMES THE SSC IS IN SLOT 2 30 A CHR 1 D CHR 4 40 PRINT D PR 2 50 PRINT...

Page 77: ...GET 1 A IF A 8 THEN A 126 120 CHR A NEXT I 140 NEXT LOOP 1600 KEY 4 1610 XIO 36 1 8 0 R1 REM 300 BAUD 1630 XIO 34 1 48 8 R1 REM RTS ON 1640 OPEN 1 13 0 R1 1650 XIO 40 1 0 0 R1 1655 OPEN KEY 4 0 K 1660...

Page 78: ...the program that must be added to your KAM so that it is compatible with TCP IP KISS mode When in the KISS mode your KAM acts only as a modem and packet assembler disassembler PAD leaving the networki...

Page 79: ...cket operation Control of the RAW KAM Commands under KISS Although removing the human interface and the AX 25 protocol from the KAM makes most commands unnecessary they are in the TCP IP program the K...

Page 80: ...to delimit frames Each frame is both preceded and followed by a special FEND frame end character analogous to an HDLC flag No CRC or checksum is provided FEND frame end is 300 octal or C0 Hence a com...

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