Specifications
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UBIT
4:. Not
used.
UBIT
5
OFF.
The PK-96 willalways
power
up
in Command mode.
OM The PK-96 will remain in the last mode
(Converse,
Command or
Transparent)
provided
the
battery
iumper
is
enabled.
UBfT A OFF:
ln
packet,
monitoring is disabled when in
the
Transparent mode.
ON:
Packet monitoring is active in
the
Transparent mode. MFROM,
MTO, MRPT, MONI-
TOR, MCON, MPROTO, MSTAMP, MXMIT, CONSTAMP and
MBX are all active.
UBIT
7-12 Not used.
UBIT 73 OFF.
MallDrop
connect status
messages
are always
sent to
you,
regardless of the setting
ol'
MDMON.
ON:.
Remote
user
dialog
and Connect
status messages with the MailDrop are
shown only
if
MDMON is ON.
UBIT
14:
OFF:
In
packet,
the transmit bufl'er
fbr data sent from the computer to the
PK-96 is limited
only by available
memory.
ON:
In
packet,
the
serial flow control will
permit
only a maximum ol seven
l-ltames to bc
held
by the
PK-96
before transmission.
This solves a
problem
with the YAPP binary
file
transfer
program
which
relies
on a small
TNC transmit buffer to operate corectly.
UBIT 15-17: Not used.
UBfT /& OFF: In
packet
operation,
the FRACK
(or
FRICK, if enabled) timer
is
used
to retry
packets
that weren't acknowledged.
OM
A Master/Slave relationship is
established
when
a
packet
connection
is
made.
This is de-
signed fbr meteor scatter operation and is described
in
detail under
the FRICK com-
mand and
Chapter
5
-
Packet
OpercLtion.
UBIT
19-21:
Not used.
UBIT
22.
ON
In
the
packet
mode,
the
PK-96 will respond
to
the receipt of an UNPROTO
liame ad-
dressed
to
QRA
by sending an UNPROTO
lD
packet
frame within 1 to l0 seconds.
This feature is
compatible with
TAPR's ANSWR
QRA
command.
OFF. The PK-96 doesn't respond to UNPROTO frames addressed to
QRA.
UBIT 23+: Reserved for future exnansion.
Unproto
calll
[VlA
call2(,call3...,callg)]
Mode:
packet
Default: CQ
Host:UN
calll Call
to
be
placed
in
the
"To"
address field.
call2-g Optional digipeater call list; up to eight calls.
UNPROTO sets the
digipeat
and
destination address
fields
of
packets
sent
in the unconnected
(unproto-
col)
mode.
Unconnected
packets
are sent as Unnumbered
l-fiames
(UI
fiames) with the destination
and
digipeat
fields
taken
from
cal// through cal/9 options. When a destination isn't specified,
unconnected
packets
are sent to
cQ.
Unconnected
packets
sent from other
packet
stations can be monitored by setting
MONITOR to a
value
greater
than
"1"
and setting MFROM
to
ALI-.
The LJNPROTO
path
and address is also used for beacon
packets.