Specifications

4.3.1 What You Should See
If all is operating properly, you should see some packets on your
screen. Some typical packets you might "Monitor" are shown below:
p1 N7ALW*>WA7GCI [C]
p1 WA7GCI*>N7ALW (UA)
p1 K6RFK>N7ALW*>N7GMF:
Goodnight John, its been nice talking to you.
p1 N7ALW*>WA7GCI:
Hi Bob, how are you this evening?
p1 KD7NM*>MAIL:
Mail for: K6RFK N7ML
p1 N7HWD-8*>ID:
NET/ROM 1.3 (SEA)
p1 SEA*>N7ML:
SEA:N7HWD-8> Connected to #SEA:N7HWD-7
p1 K6RFK>N7ALW*>N7GMF [D]
N7GMF>N7ALW*>K6RFK (UA)
NOTE: You will probably see data (Packets) on the tuning bar-graph
which do not print on the screen. This is normal and is a
function of the MONITOR and the MPROTO commands.
4.3.2 What It Means
There are different types of packets that mean different things to the
PK-900. Your PK-900 keeps track of and knows what to do with the
packets so users need not be concerned with them most of the time.
Since the PK-900 can "Monitor" all Packet activity on a channel,
we'll briefly discuss the types of packets you will most often see.
Skip to the next section if you do not plan on doing much monitoring.
Let's look at the first packet in the examples above and get
acquainted with what it all means.
p1 N7ALW*>WA7GCI [C]
The first two characters in monitored packets represents which radio
port "heard" the packet and will be either "p1" or "p2". Every single
packet you send will have your callsign (the one you just entered in
MYCALL) as the first callsign of the packet. The callsign after the
">" is the next station the packet will go to. So the packet listed
above originates from N7ALW and is being sent to WA7GCI. All packets
will have at least these two callsign fields.
The "[C]" immediately following the two callsigns identifies this
packet as a CONNECT Request. So we see that N7ALW is requesting a
packet CONNECTION with WA7GCI.
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