Reference Manual
Table Of Contents
- 10 The NETList
- 11 The Phone Link List
- 12 The Address List
- 13 Making and receiving calls
- Calls you can make and receive
- Making a call
- Listen Before Transmit Mode
- Testing the quality of a channel in a Codan Selcall network
- Replacing LQA information for all channels in an ALE/CALM network
- Making a manual sounding operation in an ALE/CALM network
- Selecting the best channel in an ALE/CALM network
- Other ways to make calls
- Calling methods
- The Calls Out Log
- Receiving a call
- The call alert
- The incoming call screen
- Error reporting in a received AMD message
- The Calls In Log
- Figure37: The Calls In Log showing a Selective call received
- Figure38: The Calls In Log showing a Message call received
- Figure39: The Calls In Log showing a Get Status call received
- Figure40: The Calls In Log showing a NET call received
- Displaying an entry in the Calls In Log
- Returning a call from the Calls In Log
- Deleting an entry from the Calls In Log
- Detecting transmissions from other stations
- 14 The Control List
- Entries in the Control List
- ALE entries
- Auto Resume entries
- Devices entry
- Figure42: The Devices entry in the Control List
- Selecting a built-in test
- Displaying the electronic serial number of a device
- Installing an option in the transceiver
- Displaying the firmware version of your transceiver
- Displaying the product name of a device
- Renaming your transceiver
- Accessing lists from the Devices entry
- GPS Screen entry
- LQA Screen entry
- Messages entry
- 15 The Keypad List
- 16 The Mode List
- 17 Using the transceiver in free tune and Amateur Mode
- 18 Hot keys
- About hot keys
- Full-time and part-time hot keys
- Assigning several macros to one key
- Automating several tasks with one macro
- Troubleshooting macros
- Storing macros
- Ideas for creating macros
- Creating a macro and assigning it to a hot key
- Copying a macro
- Moving a macro
- Renaming a macro
- Deleting a macro
- Creating a macro to perform two or more tasks
- Special macros
- 19 Operating the transceiver from a computer
- About CICS
- Using CICS
- Setting up CICS
- Terms used in CICS and the 2110SSB Transceiver
- CICS commands
- Table33: CICS commands and their functions
- alebeacon command
- alecall command
- aletelcall command
- amd command
- beacon command
- call command
- chan command
- echo command
- freq command
- gpsbeacon command
- gpsposition command
- hangup command
- help command
- lbt command
- link command
- lock command
- lqa command
- mode command
- pagecall command
- prompt command
- ptt command
- scan command
- secure command
- selbeacon command
- selcall command
- selfid command
- set command
- sideband command
- sound command
- statusack command
- statuscall command
- statustime command
- telcall command
- ver command
- Summary of command syntax
- CICS response messages
- CICS error messages
- 20 Connectors
- 21 System messages
- 22 Accessories and hardware options
- 23 Specifications
Making and receiving calls
2110 SSB Transceiver Reference Manual 163
Wildcard address syntax
If you want to send an ALE call to any station that is tuned to the same frequency in an
ALE/CALM network or scanning the network, and receive a response, make a call
through the Emergency, Message, Phone, Selective, and Send Position call types using
the Wildcard address syntax (see page 167, Emergency call, page 168, Message call,
page 169, Phone call, page 169, Selective call, and page 170, Send Position call). The
Wildcard address syntax, which ALE stations recognise, uses the wildcard character ? as
a placeholder for characters within a self address of a receiving station. Stations that
detect the call and whose self address matches the pattern in the wildcard address will
send a response to the initiating station. These responses are returned in any slot position
(collisions may occur). For example, a call sent to EM? may be responded to by stations
in the network with a self address in the ranges EMA–EMZ and EM0–EM9. The
initiating station then completes the link establishment with an acknowledgement sent to
all stations from which it received a response.
You can send multiple Wildcard addresses together to make a call to a range of stations,
for example, ?A,B??.
The allowable length of the called address is dependent on the length of the self address
used for the call.
NOTE
The Wildcard address syntax may be used if the MIL-STD-188-141B
ALE option is installed in the transceiver.
NOTE
You cannot use the Wildcard address syntax in the Channel Test, Get
Position, or Get Status call type.
NOTE
For information on entering text in a call address see page 56, Entering
text in an ALE call address.
CAUTION
If a station detects a Wildcard call to its matching self address, it will send
a response over the air.
NOTE
When you use a Wildcard address syntax through the Selective call type,
the call icon will change to the Wildcard call icon ( ) when the call is
started.
NOTE
The wildcard question marks can be in any position within the address.
The stations that respond will have an address that is the same length as
the wildcard address sent from the initiating station.
If the length of your self address is... The length of the called address can be...
1–3 characters 1–9 characters
4–6 characters 1–3 characters