Epson MFJ-1278B manual Automatic Operations, W3IWI-3IDW3IWI/R

MFJ-1278B MULTI-MODE ADVANCED OPERATION

The MFJ-1278B can send an automatic identification packet every 9-1/2 minutes when your station is operating as a digipeater. You can enable this feature with the command HID ON. An ID packet is displayed as follows by a monitoring station:

W3IWI-3>ID:W3IWI/R

You can request a final identification as you take your station off the air with the command ID. The MFJ-1278B will only send identification packets if it has been digipeating.

Automatic Operations

Normally, any packet station can be used by other stations for relaying, or digipeating, packets to a more remote destination. If you don't want your station digipeating packets, you can give the command DIGIPEAT OFF. Unless there are special circumstances, such as a station operating on emergency power, most packet operators set DIGIPEAT ON in the spirit of Amateur cooperation.

Your station will normally accept a connect request from another station if it is not already connected. You can disable this capability by setting CONOK OFF. If you receive a connect request when CONOK is OFF, the MFJ-1278B will display the message

*** connect request: <callsign>

and send a "busy signal" rejection packet to the other station. If you receive a rejection packet from a station you try to connect to, your MFJ-1278B will display

***<callsign> busy

***DISCONNECTED

If you want to have a special message sent automatically to stations connecting to you, you can specify the message with the command CTEXT. This message can consist of any text string up to 120 characters, and you may include <CR>s by prefixing them with the pass character:

cmd:CTEXT Sorry, I can't talk right now.<CTRL-V><CR>

I'll be on the air again after 8 PM.<CTRL-V><CR> Joe

In order for this message to be sent to stations connecting to you, you must set CONOK ON so that t(e connection takes place (default), and enables the automatic message with CMSG ON.

If you want to leave your station on but inhibit transmitting, you can set XMITOK OFF. If