




LEN X              X

ETERMINES THE MAXIMUM LENGTH OF EACH TRANSMITTED PACKET.  X = 1........255. F
THE  IS SET TO A VALUE SMALLER THAN THE AMOUNT OF TYPED HARACTERS READY
FOR TRANSMISSION, THEN THESE WILL BE SPILT INTO TWO PACKETS. HIS WILL NOT BE
APPARENT DURING A  BUT IT CAN BE SEEN IN THE 3/5 SCREENS. N CONDITIONS OF
HEAVY TRAFFIC OR , IT MAY BE ADVISEABLE TO LIMIT  TO SOMETHING LIKE
128.
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UIT                 

HIS WILL DISCONNECT FROM ANOTHER  USER IF SEND AS //Q <RETURN>.  F 
YSTEM SENDS //Q TO , THEN  WILL DISCONNECT BUT  BEFORE 
OUTSTANDING PACKETS ARE SEND AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE OTHER YSTEM. N RECEIVING
THIS MMEDIATE OMMAND,  WILL ALSO SEND THE , (UIT EXT, SEE
TANDARD EXTS), BEFORE DISCONNECTING. HIS OF COURCE ONLY IF THE  (EMOTE
ONTROL OMMAND ET) ALLOWS  TO BE ACCEPTED IF ISSUED REMOTELY.


TIME X            X

OULD BE INTERPRETED AS RESTTIME. T IS THE TIME, IN X * 10MS., THAT 
WILL WAIT BEFORE ANSWERING AN  FRAME FROM A CONNECTED STATION.
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RY X               X

HEN  IS CONNECTED TO ANOTHER TATION, THIS SETS THE NUMBER OF TIMES
THAT A PACKET WILL BE REPEATED IF IT IS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED. F, AFTER X RETRIES
THERE STILL IS NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM THE OTHER STATION,  WILL
DISCONNECT AND THE CORRESPONDING ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE DISPLAYED. N THE
INITIAL ONNECT EQUEST, (ACKET ODE ), ONLY ONE QUARTER OF X WILL BE
USED.  X = 0....255.
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MLER /        /

HEN SWITCHED TO  IT COLLECTS 24 RAAMES. NDER NORMAL PERATING CONDITIONS
IT CAN BE LEFT  PERMANENTLY AS ALL INCOMPATABILITIES WITH VERSION 2.0 HAVE
BEEN REMOVED. OME OTHER ROTOCOLS, (OTHER THAN 25), MAY CAUSE SOME PROBLEMS
IF  IS , FOR THAT PURPOSE IT CAN BE SET TO . RAME OLLECTION IS
DESCRIBED IN HAPTER 3.3.
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ELAY X             X

HIS IS THE TIME, TAKEN AS X*10MS, WHICH THE YSTEM WILL WAIT, AFTER THE 
HAS BEING ACTIVATED, BEFORE THE DATA IS SENT.  ETTING  TO A VALUE OF
AT LEAST 30 WILL COMPENSATE FOR SERS WITH LOW QUELCH RADIOS, OR FOR RELAY
OPERATED RADIOS AND LINEARS. N THE OTHER HAND, TOO LONG A  MAY CAUSE
PACKET COLLISIONS AND INCREASE THE  ON AN OVERCROWDED FREQUENCY.


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XPERIMENTATION SHOULD PROVE USEFUL HERE. HE OPTIMUM  CAN ONLY BE FOUND
BY THE INDIVIDUAL PERATOR, AS IT DEPENDS ON ONE'S EQUIPMENT AND FREQUENCY
USED.  S A GUIDE, VALUES LESS THAN 16 AND LARGER THAN 50 SHOULD NOT BE USED.
X = 0........255.
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ROTO               (CAN BE SET TO  VIA IGI)

T IS USED TO CALL  "LIVE" ON THE FREQUENCY. P TO 8 DIGIPEATERS CAN BE SET
IN THIS PARAMETER.  NSTEAD OF ,  CAN BE USED SIMILAR TO , BUT ANY
TEXT THAT IS TYPED WITHOUT THE COLON  BE TRANSMITTED AND  WILL BE
THE HEADER OF SUCH A TRANSMITION.
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6 $40 $ 13 $0 $ $00

HIS FUNCTION IS NOT INTENDED FOR EVERYDAY USE, BUT FOR SERS THOROUGHLY
CONVERSANT WITH THE 25-ROTOCOL. T SHOULD ONLY BE USED FOR EXPERIMENTATION.
T IS POSSIBLE TO PROGRAM THE 6 KEY TO GENERATE AN ARBITRARY FRAME
AND TRANSMIT THAT WITH THE BEACON. HE DEFAULT INSTALLATION IS FOR A NORMAL
EACON, AS A -RAME WITH SET FINAL BIT.  HE 5 VARIABLE BYTES HAVE THE
FOLLOWING MEANING:

1.     YTE    $80 OMMAND
               $40 ESPONSE
               $0 OTH -ITS SET
               $00 1

2.     YTE    ONTROL IELD

3.     YTE     (00=NO )

4.     YTE    AX. NFO IELD. (F YOU   WANT AN ARBITRARY RAME TO BE
                                SENT WITH YOUR ORCED EACON WHEN PRESSING THE
                                6 EY THEN SET THAT VALUE TO $47 FOR A MAXIMUM
                                OF 80 CHARACTERS OR LESS IF YOUR  IS LESS.
                                XPERIMENTATION WILL SHOW YOU THE CORRECT
                                VALUE).

5.     YTE    UST BE SET TO $00.

HE ADDRESS FIELD, WILL BE THE SAME AS THE , THE INFO FIELD WILL BE
TAKEN FROM THE , AS ALREADY EXPLAINED ABOVE.  IS DERIVED FROM THE
ACTIVE PORT. LL PLUS THE ARBTRARY FRAME, IF THE INFO FIELD IS SET TO $, WILL
BE TRANSMITTED.
XAMPLE :6 $80 $3 $00 $00   HIS WILL SEND AN . (ONNECT OMMAND ODE).
HEREFORE THE 6 EY CAN BE SET ACCORDING TO THE PERATORS WISHES.









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5.5  

N ONITOR ODE ALL PACKETS, ON THE FREQUENCY WILL BE DISPLAYED PROVIDING THEY
ARE COMPLETE AND UN-CORRUPTED, ( ).  N ASTERISK [*] WILL SHOW WHICH
STATION IS ACTUALLY TRANSMITTING THE DISPLAYED PACKET, SO ANY DIGIPEATING
COMPLETED CAN BE RECOGNIZED. XAMPLE:

 3/8*>3>,
    :     :   :   :     :  :----- OLL/INAL-IT (SEE PPENDIX)
    :     :   :   :     :-------- ONTROL IELD  (SEE PPENDIX)
    :     :   :   :-------------- TATION TO WHOM THE OMMAND IS ADDRESSED TO.
    :     :   :------------------ ENOTES THE STATION WHO TRANSMITED THIS LAST.
    :     :---------------------- IRST IGIPEATER (CAN BE MORE).
    :---------------------------- RIGINATING TATION. (ENDER).

LL THE FREQUENCY ACTIVITY CAN BE SEEN ON SCREEN IN 40 COLUMN MODE, (-64)
ONLY, (80 COLUMN FOR THE 128), BY PRESSING 3. HERE IS ONE SCREENFULL WORTH OF
"BUFFER" THAT CAN BE SEEN BY PRESSING 5. 1 ALWAYS RETURNS THE MONITOR TO
WHICHEVER ORT IS ACTIVE.  HE DISPLAY OF THE ENERAL ONITOR CREEN WAS
ALTERED IN THIS VERSION.  N VERSION 2.00 THE NUMBER 1 WAS ALWAYS ADDED TO THE
LAST NUMBER OF A RECEIVED RAME SEQUENCE. HIS WAS THOUGHT TO ASSIST THE
PERATOR.  OW THIS NUMBER IS DISPLAYED ACCORDING TO THE LAST RAME NUMBER
RECEIVED. HIS WAS ALSO DONE IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH NTERNATIONAL TANDARDS.
HE NFO-RAME THEREFORE SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:

8>8>23,,0
               ::------- HE NUMBER OF THE LAST RECEIVED ACKET EQUENCE.
               :
               :-------- END EQUENCE UMBER, AS UNTIL NOW.

RINTER AND ISKETTE PERATION IS POSSIBLE ONLY FROM THE PERATING SCREEN, AND
ACTIVE ORT. N THE FOLLOWING PAGES, NDIVIDUALLY ELECTED ONTROL ODES FOR
THE ONITOR CREEN WILL BE EXPLAINED.


ITOR    

ACH LETTER FOLLOWING  HAS A SPECIAL MEANING.  F THE LETTER IS PRESENT
THEN THIS FUNCTION IS SWITCHED ON. HE MONITOR CAN BE SWITCHED OFF BY SETTING
IT TO : , HOWEVER THIS WILL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS DELETING THE
LETER  AFTER THE COMMAND :. HE 1 SCREEN (MONITOR SCREEN) WILL NOT
DISPLAY INCOMING PACKETS, EITHER GENERAL TRAFFIC, OR SPECIFIC MESSAGES IN THE
CONNECTED MODE.

HE MEANING OF EACH LETTER IS AS FOLLOWS:

      CTIVATE THE ONITOR CREEN (1).
      ELECTION OF THE PACKETS ALSO ON THE 3-ENERAL ONITOR CREEN.
      ONITOR ENERAL HANNEL ACTIVITY, EVEN DURING A CONNECT.
      ACKETS SENT FROM THIS YSTEM WILL BE DISPLAYED.
      ISPLAY THE TATION ALLSIGN WHICH SENT THE DISPLAYED PACKETS. (GENERAL)
      ISPLAY THE IGIPEATER HAIN.
      ISPLAY THE TATION CALLSIGN WHICH RECEIVED SENT PACKETS (GENERAL).
      ISPLAY THE ACKET ONTROL IELDS.
      ISPLAY OF COMMAND, ESPONSE, OLL, INAL.



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      ISPLAY OF THE -YTES WITH INFO RAMES.
      ISPLAY -RAMES.
      -RAMES (ONNECTED) WILL BE DISPLAYED.
      UPERVISORY AND UN-NUMBERED FRAMES (EG. , ETC) WILL BE DISPLAYED.
       LINEFEED WILL BE FORCED BEFORE EACH  IELD.
      HE TIME WILL BE SHOWN IN FRONT OF EACH NFO RAME ON THE 1 CREEN.
      N THE 3/5 CREENS, EMPTY LINES WILL FORCE A LINE FEED (EACH).

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LTER ....       .....

HIS FILTER IS SIMILAR TO THE . HE CONTROL CODES SET HERE WILL
DETERMINE THE WAY THE CURSOR BEHAVES WHEN MONITORING THE GENERAL TRAFFIC ON
THE FREQUENCY ON THE 1 CREEN. T SELECTS WHICH CHARACTERS, OR FUNCTIONS,
WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THE  CREEN IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE 1 CREEN
IN A TANDARD DISPLAY FORM THAT SUITS THE PERATOR. HE ONTROL ODES AND THEIR
FUNCTIONS CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 14 OF THIS MANUAL.

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OM              

T STANDS FOR ONITOR ROM.  F IT IS SET TO  THEN ALL PACKETS RECEIVED WILL
BE DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN. HESE OF COURSE WILL BE UN-CORRUPTED AND COMPLETE
AS SET BY THE : PARAMETER.  F THE PERATOR WISHES THAT PACKETS FROM
SPECIFIC TATIONS  WILL BE DISPLAYED ON THE CREEN (1) THEN BY SETTING THE
THIS PARAMETER WITH A + (PLUS-SIGN) IN FRONT OF THE CALLSIGNS, LIKE THIS:
 : +8,3 <RETURN>, ONLY PACKETS FROM THESE TWO STATIONS WILL
BE DISPLAYED. ORE THAN 2 STATION CALLSIGNS CAN BE SET.  IMILARLY IF THE
PERATOR WISHES TO  SOME STATIONS FROM HIS MONITOR CREEN, THEN A -
(MINUS SIGN), CAN BE SET IN FRONT OF THE STATION CALLSIGNS TO BE EXCLUDED LIKE
THIS : -9, ETC.
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ARD               

MMEDIATE OMMAND. HORT FOR ONITOR-EARD.  ISPLAYS, ON THE OMMAND/RANSMIT
PART OF THE CREEN, ALL THE TATIONS HEARD IRECT AND CURRENTLY LISTED ON THE
7 CREEN.  F IT IS ISSUED WITH A SPACE AND THE LETTER L, LIKE THIS :  THEN
THE  7 CREEN WILL BE DISPLAYED, WITH THE TATIONS HEARD IRECT AND THE
ONES VIA IGIPEATERS. HE LISTING WILL BE IN THE SAME FORMAT AS IN THE 7
CREEN. OR THE PERATOR, THIS COMMAND IS OF LITTLE USE, AS HE HAS AN IMMEDIATE
ACCESS TO THE TATIONS HEARD LIST BY SIMPLY PRESSING THE 7 KEY.  N THE OTHER
HAND, DURING PERHAPS A , HE MAY WISH TO TRANSMIT THE TATIONS EARD LIST TO
THE OTHER STATION, AND HE CAN DO THAT BY ISSUING THE  COMMAND. HIS COMMAND
IS VERY USEFUL FOR THE USERS OF THE ODE, WHERE THEY CAN FIND THE TATIONS THAT
THIS STATION HAS HEARD AND POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO CONNECT TO. O IT IS ADVISEABLE,
IF YOU ARE RUNNING A ODE, TO SET THE   COMMAND TO 0 (ZERO), MORE ON THE
 IN THE APPROPRIATE SECTION OF THIS MANUAL.




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