User's Manual

CALL TYPES AND FEATURES
ALE ADDRESS SYNTAX
414 ENVOY™ TRANSCEIVER REFERENCE MANUAL
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ALE address syntax on page 409
Emergency call on page 402
Message call on page 405
Phone call on page 406
Selective call on page 407
Send Position call on page 407
Summary of special ALE address syntaxes
You can use a special ALE address syntax to call a group of stations. The types of
ALE address syntaxes you can use depend on the options installed in the transceiver.
NOTE: You can use any of the characters in the basic 38 ASCII subset (A to
Z, 0 to 9, @ and ?) for the address.
Table 52: Summary of ALE address syntaxes for MIL-STD-188-141B ALE
ALE address syntax Call sent
@?@ A global ALL call to all listening stations
@A@ A selective ALL call to listening stations that have an A as the last
character of their self address (A may be any specified upper-case letter or
number), for example, TNAA, EANBA, 1NCA, 23A
@@? A global ANY call to all listening stations
@@A A selective ANY call to listening stations that have an A as the last
character of their self address (A may be any specified upper-case letter or
number), for example, TNAA, EANBA, 1NCA, 23A
@AB A double selective ANY call to listening stations that have AB as the last
two characters of their self address (A and B may be any specified
upper-case letter or number), for example, BAAB, 14BAB, Q2CAB,
1AB
@A? A double selective wildcard ANY call to listening stations that have an A
as the second to last character of their self address (A may be any specified
upper-case letter or number) and any upper-case letter or number as the
last character, for example, USAM, 19MA0, ENA9, 3DAZ
ABC,JK3MN,PQR
(example only)
A Group Selective call to the stations specifically addressed
NET address A NET call to all stations with that NET programmed in NETs
??? A Wildcard call to listening stations that have a self address matching the
length of the sent address and with any upper-case letter or number as each
of the characters, for example, SAM, NAA, 234, 3AZ