WAVECOM Decoder W74PC, W-PCI/e, W-CODE, W-CLOUD Manual V9.1.0
Transmission Modes
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start over with empty dictionaries. It is important to understand that in case of compressed transmissions
exclusively the data from one party may be forwarded to the de-compressor. This understanding is espe-
cially important if during non-cooperative interception both parties in a “Chat Session” are received as
forwarding the data from both parties will immediately poison the dictionary.
HF transmission issues
The CODAN ARQ protocol is adapted to the propagation conditions in the HF range, but obviously relies on
an active link between the two communicating parties. This link does not exist in the case of non-
cooperative monitoring and thus complete and correct data output is fully dependent on error-free recep-
tion – there is no way to ask for re-transmission.
As transmissions do not contain source or destination addresses the monitor in case of single-frequency
half-duplex traffic must manually select the party to monitor. This may be achieved by adjusting the re-
ceiver squelch, adjusting the receiver HF gain or the use of directional antennas to suppress the unwanted
signal.
Real-time monitoring issues
To capture the contents of a CODAN modem data transmission the monitoring equipment should be placed
as close as possible to the transmitter site of the interesting party. This is the only way to ensure that the
quality of the signal is sufficient to secure that all transmitted packets are correctly captured.
To facilitate the decoding of data the WAVECOM decoder in addition to outputting the decoded data in the
decoder window also saves raw channel data with sequence numbers and including bad packets to a text
file. The text file may be processed manually or by a user provided application.
COQUELET-13
COQUELET-13 is an asynchronous system and uses a start and idle tone of 1052 Hz. As with COQUELET-8,
the first group contains 8 tones for keying, and the second group 4 tones.
Parameter
Value
Frequency range
HF
Operation modes
Asynchronous simplex
Modulation
MFSK-13
Speed
50.0 or 75.0 ms
Receiver settings
DATA, CW, LSB or USB
Input format(s)
AF, IF
Additional Info
ITA-2
COQUELET-13 has a tone duration of 75 ms which is equivalent to a 50 Bd Baudot transmission, with 1.5
stop bits. Two code tables are defined for this mode,
Code Table 0
and
Code Table 1
.
