7.3Preparing Programs for Automatic Message Transmission

This section shows you how to prepare the programs necessary for automatic message transmission. The programs, which you can save to a floppy disk for future use, enable unattended automatic transmission.

The program for automatic transmission is called a macrofile. You will need several types of macrofiles depending on the MARITEX service to be utilized.

Commands

The tables which follow describe the commands for automatic trans- mission.

Table 7-2 describes the commands processed by the DP-6.

Table 7-2 Commands processed by the DP-6

Command

Parameter

Content

 

(prefixed with @)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CALL

S: Station Name

Calling station name and ID on assigned

 

 

I: ID

parameter

 

 

 

 

 

FREE (support

Two digits

Free-signal searching time according to

 

command for CALL)

0?99 min.

assigned parameter (default setting: 10 min.)

 

 

 

 

 

RETRY (support

Two digits

Calling according to assigned parameter

 

command for CALL)

0?99 min.

(default setting: 10 min.)

 

 

 

 

 

CASE

Text

For receving a message (designanted by

 

 

 

parameter) transmitted by coast station

 

 

 

 

 

TIMEOUT (support

Two digits

Time alloted for reception of message by

 

command for CASE)

0?99 min.

CASE command

 

 

 

 

 

SEND

Text

Text transmitted according to assigned

 

 

 

parameters

 

 

 

 

 

 

B:file name

Send a file from floppy disk

 

 

 

 

 

WRU

None

Function keys [F7] ? [F10]

 

HR

 

 

 

OVER

 

 

 

BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DISPLAY

Text

Text of message appears

 

 

 

 

 

INPUT

None

Waiting for keyboard input

 

 

 

Transmit keyboard input message

 

 

 

 

 

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