Alpha 8100 Operating Manual page 53

01536 Output forward power in watts
00002 Output reflected power in watts
0595 Input RF power (drive) in tenths of a watt. This shows 59.5 watts.
2654 Plate voltage in volts.
0867 Plate current in milliamps.
260 Amplifier gain in tenths of a unit. This shows a gain of 26.0.
0519 (-1) times the voltage on grid 1, in tenths of a volt. This shows that the grid voltage is –51.9
volts.
008 Grid current in tenths of a milliamp. This shows the grid current it 0.8 milliamp.
3 Band switch setting. 1: 1.8 MHz; 2: 3.5 MHz; 3: 7 MHz...
4 Amplifier mode. 0: Off ;1: warmup; 2:On standby; 3: On operate; 4: keyed up.
00 Fault code
0 Key sense
* End of the "payload" portion of the sentence. The checksum calculation ends with the last
character preceding the "*" .
8DA3 Fletcher checksum (FCS) of the payload portion. The FCS is a two-byte quantity calculated
over the payload portion of the sentence, according to the following pseudocode:
sum1=0
sum2=0
for n=0 to (length(payload))-1
sum 1= sum1 +Payload(n)
sum2=sum2+sum1
next n
The result is displayed as hexadecimal ascii.
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