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
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Each type of call is described below.
Channel Test call
If you want to test the suitability of a channel/mode before you use it to transmit voice or
data, make a Channel Test call.
In an ALE/CALM network, a Channel Test call may be sent to an ALE address using a
Group Selective or NET address syntax (if you have the MIL-STD-188-141B ALE
option installed).
A Channel Test call made in an ALE/CALM network with a Group Selective or NET
address may be used to replace the information in the LQA database. The initiating
station automatically sends a beacon on each channel/mode combination in the ALE/
CALM network, recording local and remote BER and SINAD information, and
calculating an LQA score. The LQA screen is visible during the Channel Test call, and at
the end of the call, displays the best channel on which to make the call.
The LQA information recorded during a Channel Test call in an ALE/CALM network
replaces information already recorded against the same network and self addresses.
Using a Channel Test call in an ALE/CALM network is an immediate method of
replacing the LQA database in the transceiver.
A Channel Test call made in an ALE/CALM network using the text SOUNDING as the
call address may be used to initiate a sounding operation. Transceivers that detect this
sounding will update the relevant information stored in their LQA database.
Table 18: Call types and icons
Call type Icon
Channel Test
Emergency
Get Position
Get Status
Message
Phone
Selective
Send Position
NOTE
You cannot use the ALL, ANY, or Wildcard address syntax with a
Channel Test call.