Specifications

1PK-900 Gateway Option Supplement
040-067-9 — December 1993
PK-900
Gateway Option Supplement
Thank you for your purchase of Timewave’s Gateway firmware option for the
PK-900! Please read the enclosed sheet, PK-900 EPROM Installation Instruction, for
instructions on how to install your new firmware.
New feature outline:
• Cross-mode Gateway includes packet/AMTOR, packet/PACTOR and packet/
packet operation. (See the new GUSERS and XGATEWAY commands for details).
• AEA packet “node” helps eliminate the need for digipeating.
• Enhanced AMTOR- and PACTOR-listen modes show link and connect at-
tempts.
• Automatic selection of AMTOR or PACTOR modes when a received signal is
tuned with the ARXTOR command.
• Enhanced packet MHEARD function identifies TCP/IP, NET/ROM and <The-
Net> stations.
• MYALIAS has been expanded to enable the “two-ham family” to use more than
one packet callsign with their PK-900.
• PACTOR “roundtable” operation has been enhanced with the PTROUND com-
mand.
• New EXPERT command now included so you’re no longer burdened with a large
number of commands to view.
• Full break-in CW operation is simplified with MOPTT.
• The CODE command has been epxanded to include the upper/lower case exten-
sions used by AMTOR MSO and APLINK stations.
• The SIAM (Signal) mode now indentifies PACTOR stations.