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Chapter 7 - Commands and Messages

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DBldisc

 ON|OFF

default ON

When OFF, only one disconnect command (

D

) need be sent to terminate an unsuccessful con-

nect sequence. When ON, a normal disconnect sequence will always occur.

DElete

n

default $08 (

)

This command sets the character to be used as the Delete character.

DIDdle

 ON|OFF

default OFF

When  ON,  a  diddle  character  is  sent  when  no  characters  are  available  from  the  keyboard  or

buffer during transmission in RTTY or ASCII Mode. In RTTY the diddle character is the LTRS char-
acter, in ASCII the diddle character is a null.

DIGipeat

 ON|OFF

default ON/ON

When ON, any packet received that has 

MYcall

 or 

MYAlais

 in the digipeat list of its address field

will be retransmitted. Each station included in the digipeat list relays the packet in the order speci-
fied in the address field. Digipeating takes place concurrently with other unit operations and does
not  interfere  with  normal  connected  operation  of  the  station.  To  disable  digipeat  operations  turn
this command OFF. This command is valid only while the KAM is in Command Mode or packet op-
eration. Selection of CW, RTTY, ASCII or AMTOR Modes disables 

DIGipeat

.

Disconnect

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 Disconnect command will disconnect the station on the stream

to which I/O is currently addressed.

Other commands may be entered while the disconnect is in progress. If the 

RETry

 count is ex-

ceeded  while  waiting  for  the  connected  station  to  acknowledge,  the  KAM  moves  to  the  discon-
nected state on that stream.

Disconnect messages are not displayed when the unit is in Transparent Mode.

DISPlay

This command causes the unit to display a list of all the parameters of the unit. You may also

display  only  selected  parameters  by  affixing  the  appropriate  class  identifier  for  that  group.  Sub-
classes of related parameters are:

(L)ink

parameters affecting packet, link

(A)sync

asynchronous port parameters

(C)haracter

special characters

(I)d

ID parameters

(M)onitor

monitor parameters

(T)iming

timing parameters

(X)t

parameters of non-packet modes only

Individual  parameter  values  can  be  displayed  by  entering  the 

DISPlay

  command  followed  by

the  parameter  name.  When  using  the 

DISPlay

  command  with  either  a  subclass  or  individual  pa-

rameter name, be sure to use a space between them. Display classes are illustrated preceding the
response messages section of this manual.

Содержание KAM

Страница 1: ...Kantronics All Mode Communicator Version D v2 7 August 1987 Copyright 1986 by Kantronics Inc 1202 E 23rd St Lawrence Kansas 6646 All rights reserved...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

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

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

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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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