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KPC-9612

Getting Started

and Reference Manual

Summary of Contents for KPC-9612

Page 1: ...KPC 9612 Getting Started and Reference Manual...

Page 2: ...Operating Packet 14 Connecting at 1200 baud 14 Connecting at 9600 baud 15 Introduction to Commands Some Abbreviations 16 Entry 16 Format 16 Parameter Types 17 Commands 18 Operation of the KPC 9612 45...

Page 3: ...12 Jumpers 63 Connector Configuration 64 1200 baud radio port DB 9 64 Serial port DB 25 65 Appllying power to the KPC 9612 65 DTR DSR RTS CTS connection 65 Specifications 66 ASCII Chart 67 Pacterm Man...

Page 4: ...connect to the KPC 9612 a source of regulated de power 12 V nominal and the connectors to interface with your radio s Wring diagrams for some radios are included in this manual If your radio is not sh...

Page 5: ...turned on ON OFF switch This push push switch applies power to the KPC 9612 When depressed the KPC 9612 is turned on Port 1 Xmit This red LED lights when the KPC 9612 is transmitting on radio port 1...

Page 6: ...and the negative wire to the sleeve Insert the power plug into the power jack at the rear of the KPC 9612 KPC 9612 to Computer Cable To connect your KPC 9612 to your Computer you will need to use a mo...

Page 7: ...to ENTER YOUR CALLSIGN If you didn t press the quickly enough be patient and try again when you see the message Once you have pressed the at the right time the KPC 9612 prompts you to ENTER YOUR CALL...

Page 8: ...dio This pin normally connects to the external speaker jack on your radio The supplied 3 5 mm phone plug can be used by connecting the tip to pin 5 and the sleeve to pin 6 In some radios receive audio...

Page 9: ...posts the drive may be adjusted through the high range 140 mV to 4 Vp p with R22 Placing J5 on one post only selects the low range 2 mV to 60 mVp p This jumper is set at the factory for the low range...

Page 10: ...KPC 9612 Version 5 2 July 19 1994 10...

Page 11: ...KPC 9612 Version 5 2 July 19 1994 11...

Page 12: ...KPC 9612 Version 5 2 July 19 1994 12...

Page 13: ...PC 9612 Adjusting Transmit Drive Level The drive level of the 9600 baud modem in the KPC 9612 is adjusted using R32 and jumper J7 When J7 is placed on both posts R32 will adjust the drive through the...

Page 14: ...n want to try to connect to one of them To instruct your KPC 9612 to connect disconnect or to change any of the operating pararneters you must be in the COMMAND Mode To send data from your keyboard ov...

Page 15: ...by the 2 in the monitored data you must first switch your KPC 9612 to transmit at 9600 baud To do this type the tilde character and then the letter a This sets the KPC 9612 to transmit packet on the...

Page 16: ...All commands may be abbreviated to the shortest string indicated by the CAPITAL letters in the command reference You may examine the value of any parameter by typing the command name followed by a CR...

Page 17: ...N l OFF For ON OFF choices you may also enter YES or NO Other commands accept one of several choices ON l OFF l TO l FROM Enter the appropriate word to indi cate your choice callsigns xxxxxx n Many co...

Page 18: ...ts or when conditions are marginal between the two stations in volved NOTE Changing this setting after connecting to another Station will have no effect on the current connection The major difference...

Page 19: ...6 ON OFF OFF When OFF the 9600 baud transmit waveform filter provides the best eye pattern on the transmit ted signal The transmitted bandwidth is slightly wider than a G3RUH modem When ON the transmi...

Page 20: ...9612 will detect a signal using the carrier detect built in to the modem For port 1 1200 baud a signal is detected when any energy is present The port 2 9600 baud modem detects a signal based on data...

Page 21: ...aracter used to enter the Command Mode from the Convers Mode or to exit from the Transparent Mode CONList ON OFF OFF When ON the KPC 9612 will recognize only those packets received with a callsign tha...

Page 22: ...n the SENDPAC character is en tered or when PACLEN is exceeded When ON packets are sent at periodic intervals determined by PACTIME See also convers cr paclen pactime sendpac trans CR ON OFF ON When O...

Page 23: ...is command will cause a CWID to be transmitted periodically When set to EVERY a CWID will be transmitted every n minutes When set to AFTER a CWID will be transmitted ONCE after n mi nutes of no channe...

Page 24: ...nd if not entered the sec onds will be set to 00 See also cstamp daytweak daystr mheard mstamp DAYTWeak n n 0 15 8 This command is used to tweak the software clock for accurate time keeping Increasing...

Page 25: ...to disconnect that user give the command DISC MYPBBS If a user is connected to you your KA Node you can disconnect that user and the station he is talking to with the command DISC MYNODE x where x is...

Page 26: ...anpac cpactime echo paclen redispla sendpac FRack n n 1 15 4 4 After transmitting a packet requiring an acknowledgment the KPC 9612 waits FRACK seconds be fore incrementing the retry counter and sendi...

Page 27: ...SYSOP to determine proper setting of your hierarchical address Your PBBS will not forward messages if PBPERSON is OFF and the HTEXT is empty To clear your HTEXT en ter a single character HTEXT See th...

Page 28: ...s enabled allowing users to cross connect from one port of the KPC 9612 to the other port See also numnodes mvnode LCok ON OFF ON When ON upper and lower case characters will be sent to the attached t...

Page 29: ...transmis sion if they are available See also paclen MAXUSERS n n 0 26 10 10 This command sets the maximum number of streams channels available for packet connections Each stream is designated by a str...

Page 30: ...ntly An asterisk indi cates that the station was heard through a digipeater The date time the station was last heard is also displayed If the S option is used MHEARD S only the callsigns of the statio...

Page 31: ...the end of the header information The and characters are used to bracket and denote packets received as version 1 or version 2 respectively Upper case characters denote command frames and lower case c...

Page 32: ...RE D it asks you for your callsign The callsign you en ter is placed in this parameter All packets originated by the KPC 9612 will contain this callsign in the FROM address field Any packets received...

Page 33: ...remote access to the command set of the KPC 9612 En ter up to six characters plus optional SSID which are different than those used for MYCALL MYA LIAS MYNODE MYPBBS and MYGATE In addition the RTEXT...

Page 34: ...des when a connect occurs See also conmode connect NText text up to 128 characters blank This entry specifies the customized text sent with the initial KA Node sign on message when a re mote station c...

Page 35: ...Ctrl V The PASS command sets the characters used to transmit those characters which normally have special meaning to the KPC 9612 when operating in the Convers Mode A list of the special charac ters...

Page 36: ...to forward immediately After the PBBS has forwarded any messages it will request a reverse forward if the PBREVERS com mand is ON NOTE If PBPERSON is OFF the PBBS will not forward or reverse forward...

Page 37: ...tion When ON only messages ad dressed to your MYCALL or MYPBBS callsign will be accepted in the mailbox Messages entered from the attached terminal may be addressed to any callsign With PBPERSON ON fo...

Page 38: ...g operation you must use the streamswitch characters See also streamsw PText text up to 128 characters blank This entry specifies the customized text sent with the initial PBBS sign on message when a...

Page 39: ...after n 100 milliseconds This command is useful in avoiding collisions during such activity as file transfers using full length packets If operating half duplex this timer is suspended whenever the P...

Page 40: ...te remote access section SCreenln n n 0 255 0 This value is used to format data sent to your terminal A carriage return sequence is sent to the terminal at the end of a line after n characters have be...

Page 41: ...For software flow control set this parameter to the character the terminal will send to stop data flow and be sure XFLOW is ON See also start xflow xoff xon STREAMCa ON OFF OFF When receiving packets...

Page 42: ...at the beginning of a bit time The second number d is a penalty subtracted from the counter when a transition oc curs in the middle of a bit time The t value is the threshold value when the counter t...

Page 43: ...n optional Secondary Station Iden tifier SSID specified as n where n 1 15 When a BEACON or ID packet is transmitted the destination address will be set to BEACON or ID and the digipeaters specified in...

Page 44: ...See also intfce xkpolled XKPolled ON OFF OFF When ON enables the polled mode of the G8BPQ Extended KISS protocol NOTE Intface must be set to XKISS to enable this function See also intface xkchksum XMi...

Page 45: ...e following N0ULD N0GRG 1 D WK5M KA5ZTX 2 I12 Hello there how are you today WD0EMR W0XI KSLAW 2 I32 Are you there Phil N0GRG N0APJ 1 DM KA5ZTX WK5M 2 rr2 N0GRG K00W 1 I4 Hi Ken yes I received my KPC 9...

Page 46: ...he same station as the last displayed packet To talk back to any of these stations remember you are already in the Convers Mode you simply type the A or A and then your text press return when you are...

Page 47: ...atus information size of the message the addres see TO field distribution BBS field and originator FROM field In addition the list shows the date and time the message was received at this BBS and a sh...

Page 48: ...y send a reply using the send reply SR command of his local BBS That BBS will then address the message to you using the BBS and hierarchical routing information in the last R line of the message you s...

Page 49: ...L N5IST WTX TX USA NOAM As this forwards through the system all West Texas BBSs can still forward the message to N5IST because his call is a part of the hierarchical routing As of this writing there s...

Page 50: ...his manual KA Node Your KPC 9612 contains a KA Node which allows users to connect to the node and then connect to other users either on the same port or on the other port of your KPC 9612 To activate...

Page 51: ...hange information contained in the message and also to change the mes sage header Each message will have a TYPE indicated by the letter P private B bulletin or T traffic To change the message type ent...

Page 52: ...des the ability to connect from a remote station and change the pa rameters in the KPC 9612 This allows you to add or delete stations from the LLIST change the size of the PBBS change the MYCALL and s...

Page 53: ...a command like CONNECT W1ABC the remote KPC 9612 will indeed con nect to the station but there will be no data sent to you from that connection The connected data would be sent to the serial port of...

Page 54: ...have the command prompt cmd Type INTFACE KISS and press return You will not see a message or any prompt back from the KPC 9612 It is now in KISS Mode To force your KPC 9612 out of the KISS Mode from...

Page 55: ...cintosh dumb terminal and most other terminal devices If your com puter or terminal uses TTL levels such as the Commodore 64J you will need an after market con verter to supply the RS 232 signals requ...

Page 56: ...D DATA CARRIER DETECT The KPC 9612 uses this pin to signal the status of the current I O stream to your computer If you are currently connected to another packet station this line will have a positive...

Page 57: ...ltage from your radio not to exceed 50 volts and 200 mA Pin 4 This pin is the CONTROL B output from the KPC 9612 which may be used as a control line to your radio or other devices It is an open drain...

Page 58: ...baud data from those radios that provide TTL level voltages for receive such as the Kantronies D4 10 radio This pin would normally only be used to operate 19 200 baud packet Normally this pin will no...

Page 59: ...dio 9600 Baud The 9600 baud drive level from the KPC 9612 may be adjusted using potentiometer R 32 and jumper J7 When the J7 jumper is placed on both posts the output level may be adjusted from 80 mVp...

Page 60: ...he PC board forward to remove the PC board from the case To reassemble reverse the above procedure To reassemble reverse the above procedure Hard Reset The hard reset process is provided to re initial...

Page 61: ...T square wave and choose the R option in your Calibrate Mode to adjust your receive equalization You will see two numbers displayed each time you press R The KPC 9612 is measuring the space mark squar...

Page 62: ...nd J7 Pressing X will exit the Calibrate Mode and reset the KPC 9612 After entering the Calibrate Mode for the 9600 baud port you should use the T option to transmit a continuous signal and adjust R 3...

Page 63: ...o pin jumper allows the transmit signal from the 9600 baud modem to be dc coupled to your radio When placed on both pins the transmit signal is dc coupled and when placed on one pin only the signal is...

Page 64: ...re details DEFAULT center post and 2 J17 RESET INPUT This three pin jumper in conjunction with jumper J16 provides an alternate means to supply dc power to the KPC 9612 or to perform a hard reset with...

Page 65: ...st and 1 and juniper J17 on the center post and 2 you may power the KPC 9612 by applying 12 volts dc to pin 25 of the DB 25 serial connector WARNING If you set jumpers J16 and J17 to provide power thr...

Page 66: ...0 sec Audio Output Drive level lo 2 60 mV p p 2 100 mV p p Drive level hi 140 mV 4 V p p 80 mV 4 V p p Impedance 600 Ohm ac coupled 600 Ohm ac or dc coupled Audio Input Input Impedance 600 ohm single...

Page 67: ...07 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F a b c d e f g h i j k...

Page 68: ...F8 increment baud rate Pressing F8 will cause Pacterrn to step through the available baud rates The default is 1200 baud and must be reset if necessary each time you begin the program Available rates...

Page 69: ...sent to the TNC when you press another F5 and Pacterm will return to ONLIN at this time F5 does not add a carriage return to the data In packet you must remember to end what you have to say with the...

Page 70: ...Terminal Mode Pacterm supports drive designators when saving files but does not support directories If the information is stored with a normal file name carriage return line feeds will be added as nee...

Page 71: ...47 1 A4 A6 C48 001 A4 A2 C49 1 A4 A6 C50 001 A4 A2 C51 001 A4 A2 C52 1 A4 A4 C53 1 tant A3 A4 C54 1 tant A3 A4 C55 1 A3 A4 C56 1 A3 A4 C57 001 A3 A5 C58 1 B3 A1 C59 22p A3 B5 C60 22p B2 B5 CR1 1N914 A...

Page 72: ...8 Not installed B1 D1 R29 1M B1 D3 R30 220R C1 D1 R31 2k7 C1 D2 R32 10k Variable C1 D2 R33 10k Variable C1 D2 R34 100k 5 SIP C1 R34A 100k 5 SIP D1 R34B 100k 5 SIP D1 R34C 100k 5 SIP D2 R34D 100k 5 SIP...

Page 73: ...C60341C D3 U9E LMC60341C D1 U10 74HC30 D3 C6 U11 74HC259 D2 C5 U12 74HC259 D2 D6 U13 74HC30 D3 C6 U14 74HC14 C1 U14A 74HC14 A1 U14B 74HC14 D4 U14C 74HC14 D5 U14D 74HC14 D4 U14E 74HC14 A1 U14F 74HC14 C...

Page 74: ...KPC 9612 Version 5 2 July 19 1994 74 KPC 9612 Parts Layout...

Page 75: ...KPC 9612 Version 5 2 July 19 1994 75...

Page 76: ...KPC 9612 Version 6 0 October 25 1995 76 KPC 9612 Manual Addendum KPC 9612 Version 6 0 Firmware with DAMA slave mode capability included...

Page 77: ...in Germany Within each Local Area Network LAN end users set themselves up as DAMA slaves using spe cially equipped TNCs which contain firmware EPROM that can operate in a DAMA slave mode such as the...

Page 78: ...to work within a DAMA system to do so All other commands and operations remain unchanged New Commands DAMA ON OFF default OFF When ON the TNC can operate as a DAMA slave station once connection is est...

Page 79: ...xt scheduled interval based on the start time If AFTER is specified the beacon will be transmitted once after no activity is detected on the chan nel for hh mm ss time Selecting AFTER does not allow t...

Page 80: ...set to GPS the buffer contents will be updated automatically by the GPS data LTP n dest via call1 call2 n 1 4 Default GPS GPS This command sets the destination callsign and the digipeaters used to tra...

Page 81: ...set When set to CMD the KPC 9612 will produce a sign on message followed by the command prompt cmd When set to CONV the unit will be in Convers Mode Setting PM TRANS sets the KPC 9612 in Transparent M...

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