User's Manual

Document Number/Ref.-No. Issue
00-6383A01 1.0
(113491 2)
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Appendix A – Help File Text
bit [0/1] [r/t] [v/h] [s] [c]
Requests the current BIT/Status from the receiver, transmitter, or both.
With no argument requests BIT/Status from both the receiver and transmitter and displays the response in hex or
verbose format.
[0] disable automatic requests (nominally occur at 1 request per second)
[1] enable automatic requests (nominally occur at 1 request per second)
[r] command or option affects receiver only
[t] command or option affects transmitter only
[v] verbose (text description of response, 'sticky', i.e. applies to all subsequent requests until explicitly changed)
[h] hex (response shown as hex characters, 'sticky')
[s] suppress display of the BIT/Status response. Normally the response to the automatic request is displayed. This
suppresses that display, this state is cleared by issuing a "bit v" or "bit h" command
[c] send the BIT/Status Clear message to the transmitter or receiver (or both)
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txt q [s] b 1-249 [s] f file 0
Commands the transmitter to start or stop a message transmission sequence.
q [s] The message data transmitted is:
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0123456789",0xD
b 1-249 [s] The message data is the 511 BER data
f file The message data is the 511 BER data, fil = filename of file containing transmission slots for Data Message
and which slots to send the message from the LAAS Host Simulator to the transmitter
0 Stops a continuous transmission started by txt q, txt b, or txt f
[s] Single Message Transmission (defaults to continuous)
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bfr 0, 6-222 [filename] d [0/1]
Commands the transmitter to start or stop transmitting a message
that contains 511 BER message data. Displays message transmission
statistics.
0 Terminate Block Failure Rate test
6-222 The message data contains selected number of bytes of 511 BER message data