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DWG ID: 181-0101-00A
Date: 2003-09-26
Control Site Receive Format
- All Remote transmissions received by the Control
modem shall consist of the Remote POLLID followed immediately by the Remote data.
Both POLLID and data will be sent to the control DTE via the RS-232 port.
9.5.2.1.2
Remote Site
Remote Site Configuration
- The POLLID command in each of the Remote modems
must be set to a different number between 0001 and 9999. This assures that data is
received by just one remote device.
The INTFACE command in each modem must be set to POLL. (See "Entering POLL
Mode" below.)
Remote
Site Transmit Format
- Remote sites generally do not have much computing
capacity. Therefore, the transmitted format of the data is, of necessity, straightforward.
All data received via the serial port will be formed into packets and transmitted with the
address (POLLID) attached to the beginning of each data packet.
Remote Site Receive Format
- All data received by the Remote via the radio is first
examined for errors using a CRC-16 error-checking algorithm. Data packets that contain
errors are discarded. If the data contains no errors, it is then checked for a match of the
received POLLID and its own POLLID. If there is not a match, the data is discarded. If
there is a match, the POLLID is stripped and the raw data is passed to the RS-232 serial
port for processing. The received data format will be
exactly
the same as the data sent to
the Control Modem by the application program.
The CONMODE parameter affects when data will be sent in Poll Mode.
If CONMODE is set to CONYERS (default), data will be transmitted when any of the
following conditions is met:
The SENDPAC character is received by the modem. The default SENDPAC character is
a carriage return and can be changed to suit an existing application. The SENDPAC
character can be either stripped or appended to the data by setting the CR command ON
to append, or OFF to strip.
PACLEN is exceeded.
CAUTION: MASTER (Control Site) operation will be unusable if
PACLEN is exceeded since each packet of data sent MUST begin with a Slave (Remote
Site) POLLID (0001-9999).
Remote transmission may exceed the setting of PACLEN
since each packet transmitted from the Remote will contain the proper POLLID. If
fragmentation of data occurs, the application program is responsible for reconstructing
the data. PACLEN determines the
maximum
size of data packets (default 128 characters).
Normally, the amount of data to be transmitted will be considerably less than this.
CPACTIME is on and PACTIME expires. If CPACTIME is ON, data will be periodically
transmitted based on PACTIME timeout.