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Hint: Do not confuse the MT1200’ baud for serial communication on the computer port
with the MT1200’ 1200-baud for communicating using the radio port, which is
connected by a custom-wired cabling to a transceiver.
Setting Basic Communication Parameters
There are several MT1200 settings in addition to ABAUD (baud) and MYCALL
(CALLSIGN) that you may wish to change, especially if parameter values in your
MT1200 have been changed from their default settings or if its responses are not
displayed clearly on the screen.
The following TNC parameters are generally used with their default settings when
running HyperTerminal, but you may wish to change them. If they have been set to non-
default values, you may wish to change them back.
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ECHO = ON (default)
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FLOW = ON (default)
Technical note: Usually, ECHO and FLOW go together, both ON or both OFF.
When using software that supports split screen displays, for example, set both
ECHO and FLOW to OFF.
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XFLOW = ON (default)
Technical note: XFLOW controls whether or not software flow control is ON. If
XFLOW is set to OFF, the following parameters should also be set to 0 (zero):
XON, XOFF, START, and STOP.
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FILTER = OFF (default)
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8BITCONV = ON (default)
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Hint: Also, the MONITOR parameter may be ON or OFF (default = ON). You may have
Monitor ON while using HyperTerminal. But to prevent a build-up of data in an internal
buffer in the TNC, you should turn Monitor OFF before exiting HyperTerminal
and
leaving the TNC ON. This is because when the TNC’s receive buffer is full, your station
will return a
BUSY message in response to connect requests from other stations.
Documentation Conventions
The following conventions are used in the MT1200 documentation:
To indicate a particular key, the name of the key is given in capitals. For example, press
the ENTER key.
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