S-COM 6K Owner's Manual page 153

Several customers are using the S-COM 5K Repeater Controller as a beacon controller. The 5K
does an excellent job at this, since the speed, pitch, and interval of the ID'er is remotely
programmable; it can also be turned on and off remotely. Here's how to do it:
1. Program the repeater Timeout Timer for infinity.
2. Program the ID Interval for the desired frequency of occurrence (perhaps 1.0 minutes).
3. Either ground the COR input ("RX" switch is ON), or open the COR input ("RX" switch is
OFF).
The transmitter will stay keyed indefinitely. The ID will be sent at the interval selected by command.
If desired, the 5K can change the actual ID message automatically. This is accomplished by using
the ID-triggered-macro capability: When the controller wishes to ID, it executes a macro. The
macro sends the CW ID, and also changes the ID-triggered-macro for the next ID.
For example, let's assume that we have defined 5 CW ID messages that we want the 5K to
"rotate". How do we program the 5K to do the rotation?
First, delete the callsigns that have been stored in the ID'er, if any. Second, create five macros.
Let's call them 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103 and 1104. Place two commands into each macro; the first
one is a "Send CW Message" command that has one of the desired callsigns in it, and the second
one reprograms the Impolite ID macro:
(PW) 20 1100 (PW) 15 (CW message #1) *
(PW) 29 1100 (PW) 26 05 1101 *
(PW) 20 1101 (PW) 15 (CW message #2) *
(PW) 29 1101 (PW) 26 05 1102 *
Continue building macros 1102, 1103 and 1104. Macro 1104 reprograms the Impolite ID macro
back to 1100:
(PW) 20 1104 (PW) 15 (CW message #5) *
(PW) 29 1104 (PW) 26 05 1100 *
Don't forget to program the Impolite ID macro to get the chain started:
(PW) 26 05 1100 *
You'll also want to suppress command CW responses to keep from hearing "OK" each time a
macro is executed.
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