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USER'S GUIDE
Your Monitor now shows:
{MYCALL}>CQ:This is a test packet.
Because the UNPROTO parameter is defaulted to the address "CQ", your packets are
sent to "CQ" – you're not connected to any other station. Your packet was "heard" by
your PK-232 and displayed with the packet header containing the sending station's call
sign and the destination.
4.6.11.2
Monitoring Digipeaters – The
Set MRPT ON to see any digipeater stations being used. This feature is useful if you
want to connect to a station you're monitoring and need to know a digipeater rout in
order to reach it. For example, you might see the following:
WX1AAA*>WX2BBB>WX3CCC:Hello Bill!
This packet went from WX1AAA via WX2BBB to WX3CCC. The "*" shows you which sta-
tion you actually heard. If your PK-232 had decoded the packet from WX2BBB, the dis-
play would have shown:
WX1AAA>WX2BBB*>WX3CCC:Hello Bill!
If several digipeaters are active, or if the message lines are long, the display may be
difficult to read. You can put the header on a separate line from the text by sending
HEADERLN
WX1AAA*>WX2BBB>WX3CCC:
Hello Bill !
4.6.11.3
Monitoring Other Stations While Connected
MCON
Use the
connected to a distant station.
while in the connected state. As the value of
are included in the monitoring sequences.
You PK-232's default (
tions while you are connected to any station. This lets you converse without interrupt-
ing and confusion caused by the mixture of everyone else's packets and those of your
partner.
You might use
ing connected conversations with your partners on the channel. Whenever a beacon is
sent, that message is displayed while you're connected to another station. (See pre-
vious sections.)
4.6.12
Selective Monitoring
MFROM
The
available. You can use these commands in combination to display or mask traffic to and
from any stations or combination of stations as required. One example would be inhibit
display of a busy PBBS while you're monitoring other conversations.
PK232UG Rev. B 9/86
ON:
command for selective monitoring of other traffic on the channel while
MCON 0
) tells your system not to show packets from other sta-
MCON
1
set to
to monitor the "mail list" beacons from a PBBS while hold-
MTO
MONITOR
,
and
MRPT
Command
MCON
MONITOR
works like
MCON
commands provide monitor features not previously
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OPERATING MODES
, but affects your display
is increased, additional functions
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